Course description
The aim of this course is to enable participants to evaluate and explain authoritatively the ways in which law operates and is used, within the international and domestic contexts, to respond to terrorism.
Upcoming start dates
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- Critically assess the different forms of international and domestic legal response to terrorism,
- Analyse and evaluate contemporary terrorism-related events and developments with reference to international and domestic criminal and human rights law,
- Demonstrate the ability to articulate the complexities of legal debates surrounding the application of international and domestic criminal justice and the protection of human rights in cases involving terrorist-type offences in terminology appropriate to the subject, but in a clear manner that can be readily understood by a non-expert audience.
Training Course Content
Core content
- legal paradigms for dealing with terrorism,
- legal definitions of terrorism at the domestic and international levels,
- Principles of State criminal jurisdiction and extradition,
- principles of criminal liability and defences,
- The Special Tribunal for Lebanon,
- international and regional regimes,
- basic principles of international and European human rights law,
- Self-defence and the use of armed force against terrorism,
- Terrorism and the law in armed conflicts,
- Terrorism and derogations from human rights.
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