Courts in Conflict: Developments and Challenges in Human Rights Litigation in Armed Conflict

• Date: 08 October
• label.tijd 17:00 - 19:00
• Location: Wijnhaven

Litigation of human rights claims has proliferated globally in recent years, on the national and international levels. Armed conflicts are also on the rise, with notorious implications for human rights, alongside widespread recognition that international human rights law applies during conflict. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, in recent years we have also witnessed a vast growth and diversification of human rights litigation challenging serious violations in conflict. This lecture explores this phenomenon. It will first consider the evolving landscape of litigation in armed conflict, involving diverse fora, parties, areas of law and remedies. Considering concrete examples of litigation from a range of conflict scenarios, including the current conflict in Gaza, it will reflect on the role and impact, but also challenges and limitations, that the experience of litigating in armed conflict reveals. It will draw on the lecturer’s/Prof Duffy's academic research on human rights in armed conflict and strategic human rights litigation, and be illustrated by examples from her international legal practice (Human Rights in Practice) of litigation emerging from different conflict-related scenarios.

Discussants

• Dr. Tom Buitelaar, Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.
• Prof. Alanna O’Malley, Associate Professor, Leiden University Institute for History

Moderator

• Dr. Anna Marhold (Leiden University, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies)

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