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2024

XX Curso de Inverno de Direito Internacional

Briefly describe your degree and any other highlights about your studies you want to share. Be sure to include relevant skills you gained, accomplishments you achieved or milestones you reached during your education.

2023

XIX Curso de Inverno de Direito Internacional

• Professor Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godínez (Costa Rica)

Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Peace in Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s Ambassador to the Netherlands (2014 - 2018)

Vice-President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (2016 - 2016)

Topic discussed: “25 Anniversary of the Rome Statute”

• Professor Lauri Mälksoo (Estonia)

Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia

Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

Member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission)

Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (2013 - 2017)

Topic discussed: “The Rise and Fall of Regionalism in International Law of Post-Soviet Eurasia”

• Professor Raphael Pangalangan (Philippines)

Legal Advisor to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Human Rights Office

Professor at Jindal Global Law School

Fellow for the Center for International Law of the Philippines

Topic discussed: “International criminal accountability in the situation in the Philippines”

• Professor Péter Kovács (Hungary)

Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Head of the Department of Human Rights & Minority Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999 - 1998)

Judge of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (2005 - 2014)

Topic discussed: “The International Criminal Court and third states”

• Professor Karima Bennoune (United States/Algeria )

Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Michigan

UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (2015 - 2021)

Expert for the International Criminal Court (2017)

Topic discussed: “The International Obligation to Counter Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan”

• Professor Pierre d’Argent (Belgium)

Professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and visiting professor at the University of Leiden (Netherlands)

Member of the International Law Institute (IDI)

Vice-President of the European Society of International Law

First Secretary of the International Court of Justice (2009 - 2011)

Topic discussed: “Nullity of interstate arbitral awards”

• Professor Catalina F. Carter (Chile)

Professor of International Law at University of Chile

Head of the Department of the Universal Human Rights System at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

Topic discussed: “Enforcement of International Criminal Law in Latin America”

• Professor Hanqin Xue (China)

Judge of the International Court of Justice

Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (2018 - 2021)

Vice-President and Board member of the Chinese Society of International Law

Topic discussed: “The value of fundamental principles of International Law”

• Professor Miguel Ángel Barboza-López (Peru)

Project coordinator at the Rule of Law Programme for Latin America (KAS) in Colombia

Lawyer at the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2015 - 2016)

Topic discussed: “Due Diligence in Business and Human Rights: an approach in the case of indigenous peoples”

• Professor Luísa Helena Cruz (Brazil)

Project Coordinator (Interagency Coordination) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Deputy Chief Advisor in the International Affairs Office of the Supreme Federal Court

Advisor of  National Council of Justice (2016 - 2018)

Topic discussed: “O Direito Internacional das Migrações e o Pacto Global para uma Migração Segura, Ordenada e Regular”

• Professor Matiangai Sirleaf (United States)

Professor of Law and of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland

Member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law

Topic discussed: “White Health as Global Health”

• Professor Geraldo Vidigal (Brazil)

Assistant Professor of International Trade Law and Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam

Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Panelist of the WTO and the European Union for dispute settlement

Topic discussed: “Os Meios de Sanção das Obrigações Internacionais e o Papel dos Tribunais Internacionais”

• Professor Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France)

Judge of the International Criminal Court

Head of the French Foreign Ministry’s Legal Division (1994 - 1998)

Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2005 - 2011)

Topic discussed: “Reparations for the victims of major crimes in the ICC: achievements and challenges”

• Professor Dalia Visinskyte (Lituania)

Associate Legal Officer of the International Court of Justice

Legal Expert of the European Commission

Topic discussed: “Indirect Expropriation in Investment Arbitration”

• Professor Irene Vida Gala (Brazil)

Deputy Head of the Itamaraty Representation Office in São Paulo

President of the Association of Women Diplomats of Brazil (AMDB)

Ambassador of Brazil to the Republic of Ghana (2011 - 2017)

Topic discussed: “Mulheres e Diplomacia. No mundo e no Brasil”

• Professor Sagnik Das (India)

Assistant professor at Jindal Global Law School

Topic discussed: “Human Rights-ification of International Law: How International Courts Shaped the Law and Discourse of International Human Rights”

• Professor Gocha Lordkipanidze (Georgia)

Judge of the International Criminal Court

Minister (2020 - 2021) and Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia (2012 - 2020)

Deputy permanent representative of the Permanent Mission of Georgia to United Nations

Topic discussed: “The Rome Statute as an interplay of International Criminal Law and International Law”

• Professor Chang-ho Chung (Coreia do Sul)

Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

United Nations International Judge of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2011 - 2015)

Legal Advisor and Korean Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and Permanent Mission in Vienna, Austria (2008 - 2009)

Topic discussed: “Recent Developments at the International Criminal Court”

• Professor Mamadou Hébié (Burkina Faso)

Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden Law School)

Special Assistant to the President of the International Court Justice (2018 - 2021)

Topic discussed: “Rethinking the International Law of State Responsibility: a Systemic Perspective”

2024

XX Curso de Inverno de Direito Internacional

Briefly describe your degree and any other highlights about your studies you want to share. Be sure to include relevant skills you gained, accomplishments you achieved or milestones you reached during your education.