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Applications for the 2024–2025 academic year are open.
Discover the photo gallery of our 2023–2024 faculty members and their motivation to teach and share their expertise with our students.
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Articles of War
Our LLM alumnus Ioannis Bamnios – who graduated in October – published the main and very innovative argument of his LLM paper on the ‘conduct of hostilities in occupied territories’ in the leading blog Articles of War of the US Military Academy at West Point.
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Sandra Pointet/Geneva Academy
We organize online Q&A information sessions for prospective students interested in our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
Director of the Geneva Academy and Associate/SNF Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva
Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
President of the Board and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca
Senior Legal Adviser, US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Center for Justice and Accountability
While the focus is on humanitarian law in all its aspects, the LLM also provides a thorough base in other aspects of international law, which makes it a versatile degree that can lead to a wide variety of career paths, such as mine, working for the Belgian asylum office.
Core courses provide a solid legal basis and understanding of public international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international refugee law and international criminal law.
This unique series of events relating to military institutions and the law aims to improve our students’ knowledge of military actors and operations.
Our LLM students can participate in two moot courts, the prestigious Jean-Pictet Competition on international humanitarian law and the Nuremberg Moot Court Competition.
Our LLM students have the opportunity to acquire first-hand professional experience via internships with Geneva-based humanitarian and human rights actors
