BIICL—Autumn 2022 training programme

17 August 2022 / Author(s): Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci

Categories: Career Clinic

Institute launches wide-ranging programme in international law

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol, the government’s response to boats full of people crossing the channel, calls for the return of cultural objects, legislative developments across various fields and other news from around the world continue to highlight the relevance of international law. It also underlines the importance of legal practitioners having a solid understanding of international law as it applies to our various areas of practice.

With this in mind, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has recently announced its training programme for Autumn 2022. The programme includes some of our flagship courses and a number of new courses, expanding our offer to bring a wide range of international law topics to participants from across the world. The following courses are now available for booking:

Details of all our upcoming courses can be found here.

Like all our courses, these are convened and taught by expert researchers from BIICL’s own team, often in collaboration with external partners. This provides academic expertise with practical experience rarely available in short course format. Our combination of virtual and hybrid courses has allowed us to reach audiences across the globe, supporting our mission of supporting capacity in international law matters. They have enabled legal practitioners, government officials, students, academics, and civil society organisations from around the world to gain expert insights and to deepen their knowledge.

Experience in International Law Training

These courses build on extensive and solid experience. Over the last six years, we have provided training to on a broad range of issues including public and private international law, business and human rights, climate change law, migration law, cultural heritage law, international trade law, law of the sea and the rule of law. In 2021 alone, BIICL trained around 550 lawyers and officials, running some 180 hours of teaching and training across 14 public courses. Participants on our courses have consistently noted how useful, interesting and insightful the courses have been and many have come back for other courses or recommended our courses to friends and colleagues.

About BIICL

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is a leading independent research centre for international and comparative law in the world. It is a dynamic and influential body comprised of around 30 research staff working with an extensive network of advisors and collaborators from across the legal world, business, universities, international organisations and government. BIICL’s approach over the last 60 years of engaging with academia and practice globally has built an unrivalled network of experts who lend their knowledge and experience to strengthen our activities.

The work of BIICL cuts across a broad range of subjects and emerging issues including: the rule of law, access to justice, AI and technology, climate change and the environment, law of the sea, competition law, business and human rights, cultural heritage protection, migration law as well as public and private international law. BIICL takes an outward looking approach and responds quickly and authoritatively to emerging issues through its research and by convening a wide-ranging programme of training and events.

An accessible programme

To ensure as many individuals are given an opportunity to participate as possible a limited number of scholarships are available for each course. These facilitate engagement for people who cannot otherwise participate in the courses, and for people from communities that are currently under-represented in the legal community. Discounts are also available for group bookings and BIICL individual members.

We will continue to build on these courses for the future and see the training of lawyers as an important part of BIICL’s mission. In the meantime, we hope to welcome you to one or more of the courses BIICL is offering this Autumn.

Senior Research Fellow and Director of Teaching and Training

Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci is the Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training (www.biicl.org/people/jean-pierre-gauci).