Applications are now open for the Summer School on Public International Law
The International and Comparative Law Research Center opens applications for the Summer School on Public International Law 2025.
Dates
3–15 August 2025
Applications are open until 11 May 2025.
Venue: The ICLRC Library (14 bldg 3, Kadashevskaya Embankment, Moscow, Russia)
General topic: Judicial Resolution of International Disputes Involving States
Among the experts
Judges and participants in proceedings before international courts and tribunals, representatives of international organisations, professors of leading universities:
- Olufemi Elias
- Paolo Palchetti
- Brooks Daly
- José Luis Jesus
- Omri M. Sender
- Alexey Dronov
The programme includes
- General course on public international law
- Lectures on special topics
- Seminars
- Meetings with experts
- Informal activities
Conditions
Registration fee is 5,000 RUB (only for applicants selected by the Advisory Board)
Scholarships of up to 50,000 RUB for participants living outside Moscow
Requirements
Higher legal education
Proficiency in Russian and English
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Paolo Palchetti (PhD, University of Milan) is professor of International Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, where he is the director of the Master on International Law and International Organization. He was previously professor of international law at the University of Macerata (Italy). He is the author of books and articles on various topics of international law, especially in the fields of the law of international organizations, the external relations of the European Union, international responsibility, international dispute settlement. Paolo Palchetti has held visiting positions at several universities. He is one of the managing editors of QIL-Questions of international law, member of the board of directors of the Rivista di diritto internazionale and of Diritti Umani e Diritto Internazionale, and member of the editorial committee of International Organizations Law Review and of OXIO-Oxford International Organizations Database. He advises States on interstate disputes and acted as advocate and counsel in several cases before the International Court of Justice, including Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany), Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v. Venezuela), Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. India) (Marshall Islands v. Pakistan) (Marshall Islands v. United Kingdom), Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy).
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Brooks Daly is an independent arbitrator based in The Hague. Until 2023, he was Deputy Secretary-General and Principal Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), where he served for 20 years. In this role, he oversaw the legal affairs of an intergovernmental organization with 122 member- states. During his tenure, the PCA administered over 200 arbitrations under investment treaties, as well as numerous disputes arising under state contracts and interstate disputes arising under the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea. Before joining the PCA, he worked as Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, and for law firms in Los Angeles and London. Mr. Daly is regularly ranked as a leading arbitration practitioner by Who's Who Legal and in 2013 was appointed by the Netherlands as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in recognition of his service to international arbitration. He is a member of the State Bar of California, Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and Visiting Professor at Leiden University. He is a co-author of A Guide to the PCA Arbitration Rules (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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Dr. Omri Sender is a Partner and Chair of the Public International Law Practice Group at S. Horowitz & Co., where he acts as counsel and advisor to States, international organizations, and multinational corporations on a broad range of international legal matters.
He has particular expertise in dispute settlement proceedings before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and investment arbitration tribunals constituted under the ICSID Convention.
His teaching and scholarship in the field of international law cover the full range of the discipline, the latter including Identification of Customary International Law (Oxford University Press, co-authored with Sir Michael Wood KC) and International Law-Making by the International Court of Justice and International Law Commission: Partnership for Purpose in a Decentralized Legal Order (Cambridge University Press).
He previously served as Counsel at the World Bank, as Legal Assistant at the International Law Commission, and as a Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.
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Judge, Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union (appointed by Decision No. 12 of the Supreme Council of the EAEU dated 25 December 2023). He assumed his duties in January 2024. Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Court of the EAEU, he was Consul General of the Russian Federation in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany (from 2021 to 2023). Diplomatic rank — Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the First Class. All of A. Dronov’s previous professional activities are inextricably linked with the Foreign Policy Service of the Russian Federation and the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1994, after graduating from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, he entered the diplomatic service in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, where he worked in the Division of Legal Problems of International Cooperation and the Division of International Treaties. From November 1999 to March 2004, he was Second and then First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. After returning from a lengthy overseas assignment, he continued to work in the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heading the General Legal Problems Division and then the Public International Law Division. From 2007 to 2012, he was Senior Counsellor, Head of Division at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to International Organisations in Vienna, where he supervised the activities of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the UN Committee on Outer Space, its Legal and Scientific and Technical Subcommittees. From 2013 to 2021 he was Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supervising the departments of International Treaties, International Economic Law, Private International Law and Public International Law. During his tenure at the Russian Foreign Ministry, he was a member or head of Russian delegations to various international conferences and forums, and was a drafter or was among the drafters of many multilateral and bilateral international treaties, in particular, the draft Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of 29 May 2014.
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Dr Olufemi Elias is a Visiting Professor in international law at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently a judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice. He is the President of the Administrative Tribunal of the OPEC Fund in Vienna, Austria, the Chairman of the Administrative Tribunal of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is a full member of the Institut de Droit International. He is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization’s Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Centre. He served as Registrar (United Nations Assistant Secretary-General) of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, the Netherlands, and in Arusha, Tanzania. He was previously the Legal Adviser and Director of the Legal Office at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. Prior to that he was the Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in Washington D.C. He had worked earlier at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, serving as a legal adviser in the secretariat of its Governing Council, and subsequently as Special Assistant to the Commission’s Executive Secretary. He was a lecturer in international law at King’s College London, and has taught international law at other universities around the world. He has written and edited several books and articles on various aspects of international law. He received the 2018 Honorary Membership award from the American Society of International Law for distinguished service to international law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, a Master of Law in international law from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in international law from University College London. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar.
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José Luis Jesus is a member of the Tribunal since 1 October 1999; re-elected as from 1 October 2008 and 1 October 2017; President of the Tribunal 2008–2011; President of the Seabed Disputes Chamber 2014-2017; Member of the Special Chamber formed to deal with the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius/Maldives). Delegate and Head of Cabo Verde delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1979–1982); Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (1979–1994); Counsellor (Legal Adviser) (1981–1987), Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde (1987–1991), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cabo Verde to the United Nations in New York (1991–1994); Chairman, Group of 77 for the Law of the Sea (1986); Chairman, Group of African States at the United Nations (1986); Head of the Cabo Verde delegation to United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations, Vienna (1986); Chairman, Preparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1987–1995); President, United Nations Security Council (July 1992 and November 1993); Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Great Lakes Region, Central Africa (1994); Ambassador of Cabo Verde to Portugal, Spain and Israel (1994–1996); Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (1996–1998); Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities (1998–1999); Chairman, National Commission on the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries, Cabo Verde; Legal Consultant for technical assistance in the drafting of fisheries legislation, FAO; Lecturer at several seminars and conferences on the law of the sea, international dispute settlement, humanitarian law and international relations. Author of publications in the fields of the law of the sea, ITLOS proceedings and humanitarian law and extradition.