The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law

Dr Sharon Weill, Researcher and Lecturer, University of Geneva / The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (CERAH) and Sciences Po (Paris), will be delivering a seminar on The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law. The event will be hosted by HRLC’s International Humanitarian Law Unit in conjunction with the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre (NILSC).  

The seminar will be chaired byProfessor Dino Kritsiotis (HRLC IHL Unit Head) and Professor Nigel White (NILSC Co-Director).  

Dr Weill is an international lawyer specialising in international humanitarian law. Her particular field of interest is the relationship between international and domestic law and the judicial enforcement mechanism of international law at a national level.

In the seminar, she will discuss the implications of “The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law" (Oxford University Press, 2013), based upon findings of her PhD fieldwork research in Israel and Palestine (most notably in the Israeli military courts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) and in the Balkans(Serbian war crimes chamber).