Professor Dr José Elías Esteve Moltó

Topic 1. Transnational corporations and human rights.

Objectives:
- To examine the United Nations regulation on human rights abuses of transnational corporations
- To analyse cases and existing case-law
- Identify the interaction between business and government

Topic 2. Universal jurisdiction vs. Real politik

Objectives:
- Analysis of controversial cases of universal jurisdiction
- Examination of political interference in judicial proceedings
- Reasons for the reform of the Article 23.4 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary in Spain

Topic 3. Human rights in Asia

Objectives:
- Regional legal gaps: absence of a regional Convention and Court of Human Rights
- Analysis or practical cases: China, Burma, Sri Lanka...
- Legal options for access to justice for victims

Topic 4. International criminal responsibility for committing international crimes

Objectives:
- Genocide.
- Crimes against humanity.
- War crimes.
- Analysis of the case-law in the criminal courts of the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, International Criminal Court, national courts...
- Towards a new type of international environmental crime?

Topic 5. Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights

Objectives:
- Treaties for the Protection of Human Rights.
- Conventional mechanisms: periodic reports by the States Parties. Complaints among States. Individual complaints.
- Extra-conventional mechanisms: proceedings of the Resolution 1235: Thematic proceedings by country and urgent actions. Procedure of the Resolution 1503. Universal periodic review.

Topic 6. The use of force and Human Rights

 Objectives
- Origins of the humanitarian interference.
- The responsibility to protect.
- Analysis of conflicts: Libya, Syria...

Professor Dr Pilar Pozo Serrano

Topic 1. International Humanitarian Law: current problems

Objectives:
- Identify some aspect or tendency of today’s armed conflicts that poses problems regarding the interpretation and application of the existing standards
- Analysing the existing practice and international case-law in this respect
- Conclusions about the current situation on this issue

Topic 2: Diplomatic negotiation and conflict resolution in the Middle East

Objectives:
- To delineate a process of diplomatic negotiation
- To study the existing options and stages. To distinguish resolution and conflict management
- Third-party intervention, its functions and impact on the process
- Conclusions about the current situation on this issue