On Monday 4 October and Tuesday 5 October 2021, at the occasion of the launch of the call for abstracts for Issue no. 4 (2021) of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill), the Jean Monnet Project ‘Disseminating Disaster Law for Europe’ organized, in cooperation with the Disaster Law Interest Group of the American Society of…
In September 2021 (Monday 6, Wednesday 8, Monday 13 and Wednesday 15), the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, in cooperation with the ICRC, organized the 44th Sanremo Round Table on Current Issues of IHL. The event was organized as a webinar series, addressing some of the most topical issues related to the implementation of IHL…
On 26 July 2021, in the framework of the 40th Italian Red Cross Course for IHL Trainers held in the Jesolo training center, a roundtable was organized on the topic ‘Legal and Operational Challenges in International Relief Operations: a Dialogue among Practitioners and Academics’. The roundtable implied a conversation between DILAW4E academics and staff of…
On 13th July 2021, the webinar on “Law and Policies for Strengthening Climate Resilience: Enhancing Normative Integration between Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction” was organized in cooperation with the Jean Monnet project DILAW4E. Topics covered by the webinar included: global findings on law and policies for climate resilience; Sweden, the Sendai Framework and…
Disasters cause enormous human suffering and loss worldwide, however laws and policies at the international, regional and domestic level can contribute in managing, mitigating and preventing natural and technological hazards. International and domestic legal frameworks for managing disasters are fragmented, multi-layered and constantly evolving. Against this backdrop, the Disaster Law Database, an initiative of the…
On Tuesday, 25th February 2021, at the occasion of the launch of the Issue No. 2 of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law, published by Brill, the Editors, in cooperation with the ASIL Disaster Law Interest Group and the Jean Monnet Project DILAW4EU, organized the webinar “2020 A Year of Disasters in Review – Legal…
On 12 December 2020, the Italian Red Cross organized a webinar on the topic of Covid-19 and International Disaster Response Law. The webinar, organized as part of the training of IHL national instructors, was open to all interested persons. The event was introduced and moderated by Professor Alice Riccardi (Roma Tre University). Distinguished speakers included:…
On 14 November 2020, the Italian Red Cross organized a webinar on the topic “Covid-19 and International Humanitarian Law: Problems and Perspectives”. The webinar, organized as part of the training of IHL national instructors, was open to all interested persons. More than 300 persons participated to it. The event was introduced and moderated by Professor…
On 11 September 2020, DILAW4E co-organized with the Permanent Missions of Colombia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan and Nigeria to the United Nations a virtual meeting on ‘Disaster Law and the Draft Articles for the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters’. The virtual meeting was organised for the benefit of legal advisers of Permanent Missions at…
In August 2020, the winner of the third “International and Comparative Disaster Law Essay Contest” was announced. The winner is Rhys Carvosso, a recent LLM graduate from the University of Cambridge. Originally from Sydney, Australia, with a paper on “Techniques for Regulating Disasters across the Breadth of International Law: Disapplication, Exculpation, and their Shortcomings”. The contest is co-sponsored…