TEACHING INNOVATION
OTHER ACTIONS 2022/2023
PRACTICAL SEMINAR ON PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN THE EU
Professors Rocío M. Pozo Tomás and Adela Rodríguez Mañogil have taught, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Elena Crespo Navarro, the practical seminar on non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the European Union.
This is an interdisciplinary teaching innovation activity in which DADE 4th year students and UMH 2nd year Law students have participated.
The Seminar was held on April 4th, 18th and 24th, giving students the opportunity to learn, from an eminently practical perspective, the mechanism of the citizens’ initiative in the light of a specific topic, the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the European Union. Gamification tools such as Kahoot!, Escape Room and simulations have been used. In addition, the students themselves have produced a short video with a short summary of the sessions.
TEACHING INNOVATION PROJECT PIEU: PARTICIPATION UMH TEAM IN THE VI COMPETITION IN INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION
A UMH team of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law students participates in the VI Competition in International Litigation (ComLit) organized by the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) and the Nueva Granada Military University (Bogotá, Colombia). 19 teams from different universities from various Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru) and Spain participate in the competition.
The Competition consists of the defense of a hypothetical case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and is divided into two phases (written and oral). The UMH team successfully participated in the written phase, which ended last May and will now carry out the defense of a fictitious State in the oral phase of the procedure, which will be held in Alcalá de Henares from 19th to 23rd of June 2023.
The hypothetical case, State of Pandora vs. State of Petolia, proposed by doctors María Fernanda Álvarez and Carlos Espín Arias (National Human Rights Directorate of the Attorney General Office of Ecuador) deals with an inter-State complaint related to environmental and human rights protection. To prepare its defense, the team studied in depth the inter-American and European systems for the protection of human rights.
The international litigation competition aims to improve the legal training of future trial lawyers before international human rights courts, deepen the study of international mechanisms for the protection of human rights from an eminently practical perspective and sponsor the creation of a Ibero-American network of lawyers and expert jurists in international litigation.
The participation in the ComLit of the UMH team is integrated into the framework of the teaching innovation project-Project PIEU-B/2022-34 of the Teaching University Innovation Program PIEU-UMH 2022 and has been coordinated, from the Jean Monnet Chair of the UMH, by Prof. Elena Crespo Navarro from the Area of Public International Law and International Relations (Legal Science Department). The activity has the support of the UMH Legal Science Department.
The UMH team is made up of the STUDENTS, Marcia Bikié Motogó Mengue and Andrea Gómez Garberí, and the COACHES Prof. Rocío M. Pozo Tomás and Prof. Adela Rodríguez Mañogil, from the Area of Public International Law and International Relations (UMH Legal Science Department)
The team Preparing the competition
