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The Law School of the University of Geneva offers a truly international experience for its students. Situated at the hub of many of the world's international organizations in a picturesque setting at the foot of the Alps, Geneva is an international lawyer's paradise. The University celebrates its 450th anniversary this year.
The Law School offers two English-language Masters in Advanced Studies (MAS) in cooperation with the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies:
The Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) provides the opportunity for in-depth study of all aspects of dispute settlement in the international arena, across the public-private divide. In addition to special courses and seminars given by experts and practitioners from the Graduate Institute and elsewhere (such as Marcelo Kohen and Brigitte Stern), courses by internationally-renowned University of Geneva Law School faculty include a general course on the Organization of International Dispute Settlement given by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler.
The MAS/LLM in International Humanitarian Law offered by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights covers the principal areas of international law related to armed conflicts. This year's programme will draw on international experts from outside the faculty (such as Andrew Clapham, Eibe Riedel and Nils Melzer), and offer courses taught by the following faculty members:
Alternatively, for those up to the challenge of pursuing a Master in International and European Law in French, the Law School offers a broad range of subjects for students wishing to acquire specialist knowledge. The following seminars and courses will be taught, mostly in French by members of the permanent faculty of the Law School at the University of Geneva in 2009-10:
- Laurence Boisson de Chazournes: The Law of International Organizations; The Settlement of Disputes relating to Water Resources
- Christine Chappuis: The International Sale of Goods; Vienna Arbitration Moot Court
- Bénédict Foëx: Warranty in International Trade
- Paola Gaeta: Contemporary Problems of International Criminal Justice
- Pierre Yves Greber: International and European Law of Social Security: Problems related to Health and Age
- Maya Hertig: Human Rights
- Christine Kaddous: The External Relations of the European Union; Settlement of Disputes in the European Union; Moot Court in European Law; Bilateral Relations between Switzerland and the European Union
- Thomas Kadner: Comparative Law and Harmonization of Laws
- Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler: International Arbitration; Economic Relations in International Law
- Alexis Keller: International Law, Conquest and Political Theory from Grotius to John Marshall
- Nicolas Levrat: Contemporary Problems of European Law
- Gabrielle Marceau: WTO Law
- Nicolas Michel: International Criminal Justice: Aspects of a New Culture; The Law of the United Nations
- Xavier Oberson: International and Comparative Tax Law
- Robert Roth: International Criminal Law and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters; Contemporary Problems of International Criminal Justice
- Marco Sassòli: The Practice of International Humanitarian Law
- Jacques de Werra: International Law of Intellectual Property; Contemporary Problems of Intellectual Property Law
Finally, both foreign and Swiss students who have begun but who have not yet completed their law studies may apply for the year-long Certificate in Transnational Law programme (in French). In addition to a basic compulsory course on Comparative Law and Harmonization of Laws by Thomas Kadner, students may choose from the wide array of Masters courses and seminars described above.
Some of the Law School's Faculty:
Paola Gaeta, Director of the Master in Advanced Studies Programme in International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
Paola Gaeta joined the Faculty as Professor of international criminal law in 2007. She is also full Professor in International Law at the University of Florence. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and of the European Journal of International Law. Her main fields of research concern international courts, international criminal law and the relationship between State responsibility and individual criminal accountability for international law. Her publications include the Commentary on the Statute of the International Criminal Court, co-edited with Antonio Cassese and John R.W.D. Jones, and the recently edited The UN Genocide Convention: A Commentary, published by Oxford Un
Thomas Kadner, Director of the Programme on Transnational Law
Thomas Kadner Graziano is Professor of European private law, conflict of laws, and comparative law and Director of the programme on Transnational Law. He holds a Ph.D. degree (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Germany), a Habilitation degree (Humboldt-University, Berlin), and an LL.M. degree (Harvard, 1994). Thomas has taught comparative law and conflict of laws at Humboldt-University Berlin, he was a member of the faculty of the DUKE-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law and has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Poitiers/France, Florida, Exeter/UK, and at the Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. He is a Fellow at the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) in Vienna/Austria. He has published several books and numerous articles in the fields of European private law, comparative law, harmonisation of the law, and comparative conflict of laws.
Marco Sassòli, Director of the Department of international law and international organization
Marco Sassòli joined the Faculty as Professor of international law in 2004. Previously he taught at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, where he remains Associate Professor. He chairs the Board of Geneva Call, an NGO engaging armed non-State actors to adhere to humanitarian norms and is the Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. From 1985 to 1997, he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross at its headquarters, inter alia as Deputy Head of its Legal Division, and as Head of Delegation and protection co-ordinator in the Middle East and the Balkans. His main field of teaching, research and publications is international humanitarian law, but he also teaches general international law at bachelor level.
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