26th Annual Advanced Laws of War course

HRLC will host the 26th Annual Advanced Laws of War course between 1 June 2015 - 12 June 2015. The course is only open to legal advisers to the armed services.  The specialist areas to be covered are: combatants and POW status; occupation law and practice; human rights and armed conflict; the legal limits of interrogation; non-international armed conflicts (NIAC) - direct participation in hostilities (DPH) and detention/internment in NIAC; sexual violence in armed conflict; unmanned/autonomous military technologies and cyberwar; and targeted killings.

The course will be led by HRLC co-director, Professor Dominic McGoldrick.  The experts scheduled to teach on the course are Professor Olympia Bekou (University of Nottingham), Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran (University of Nottingham), Associate Professor Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham), Professor Robert Cryer (University of Birmingham), Mr David Turns (Cranfield University) and Dr Christine Byron (Cardiff University).