Laboratory:legal Clinic On Interculturality and Comparative Protection of Human Rights-Advanced

The Legal Clinic on Interculturality and Comparative Protection of Human Rights (advanced) is the scientific continuation of the homonymous Legal Clinic. It provides for the involvement and active participation of students, in particular through the analysis and collective discussion of specific jurisprudential lines and opinions, the simulation of the complaint procedure before the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, as well as the judicial proceedings before these regional bodies.
The course adopts the clinical methodology and proposes knowledge of the formal contents of the standard starting from the study of concrete cases, that is, through an interactive teaching method with the use of experiential techniques. The comparative approach contributes to the interdisciplinary perspective, highlighting more general aspects of legal culture, which can constitute a source of social, political, and economic reflection. After illustrating the functioning mechanisms of the European and Inter-American regional systems of protection and the content aspect of the protected rights, the critical analysis of the European and Inter-American regional courts' paradigmatic decisions is proposed. After introducing the primary contents face-to-face or through recommended readings, the students shall work in small groups on concrete projects to promote respect for human rights through jurisprudential analysis, simulated practice, the brief -writing and processing of memories, observation of terms, etc.