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International Humanitarian Law / International Human Rights Law / Armed Non-State Actors / State Responsibility
Marco Sassòli is a Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva since 2004. He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) since 2013 and a member of its Executive Committee since 2021.
He has published widely on IHL, human rights law, international criminal law, the sources of international law, the responsibility of states and non-state actors and Swiss constitutional law. He is recognized as a leading expert in IHL.
Professor Sassòli was the Director of the Geneva Academy from August 2018 to August 2020. He was also Director of the Department of Public International Law and International Organization at the University of Geneva from 2009–2016. From 2001–2003, he taught at the Université du Québec à Montreal, where he remains an associate professor.
In March–April 2022, he has been a member of a mission of experts under the Moscow Mechanism of the OSCE enquiring into violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Ukraine between 24 February 2022 and 1 April 2022. From 1985–1997 he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), notably as Deputy Head of its Legal Division, Head of the ICRC delegations in Jordan and Syria and as Protection Coordinator for the former Yugoslavia.
Professor Sassòli has also served as Executive Secretary of the ICJ, as registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court and as Chair of the Board of Geneva Call, an NGO that promotes respect for humanitarian norms among armed non-state actors
ICRC
LLM - CourseThe aim of this course is to provide students with the legal knowledge and the analytical and argumentative skills necessary to understand and interpret the rules of international humanitarian law and to apply them to facts of international reality.
Marco Sassòli, Ben Saul, Dapo Akande
The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law, Oxford, OUP, 2020, pp. 381-402
Marco Sassòli
Edward Elgar Publishing
Marco Sassòli, Antoine Bouvier, Anne Quintin
ICRC (Regularly Updated)
Paola Gaeta, Marco Sassòli, Andrew Clapham
Oxford University Press
Our campus spans from Geneva’s international area to downtown Geneva with its vibrant cultural life.
Our three master’s programmes are organized around intimate learning communities enabling close interaction between students and professors.
According to international rankings, Geneva offers an excellent quality of life and is one of the most popular places to live.
During the year, our students benefit from the Career Services of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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