IRRC No. 895/896

Direct participation: Law school clinics and international humanitarian law

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Abstract
Law school clinics focused on international humanitarian law (IHL) enable students to participate directly in the development and application of IHL through concrete "real world" work – from training to research and fact-finding, litigation to high-level advocacy, and many spaces in between. These opportunities do far more than just contribute to these students' development as effective, reflective lawyers, certainly a key goal of any clinical environment. Clinical IHL work also matches clinical pedagogy with cutting-edge issues in armed conflict to deepen students' law school experiences and enables them to engage in the IHL goals of promotion, implementation and enforcement. Keywords: international humanitarian law, clinic, promotion, clinical education, law of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions.

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