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UMH TEAM PARTICIPATES IN VII INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION COMPETITION (CHILDHOOD, GENDER AND VIOLENCE)

A team of UMH students participated in the VII International Litigation Competition (ComLit) organised by the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) and the Nueva Granada Military University (Bogotá, Colombia). Twenty-one teams from different Spanish universities (UMH and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and public and private universities in Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru) participated in the competition.

The competition consists of defending a hypothetical case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and is divided into two phases (written and oral). This year’s hypothetical case, Caso Albert, X e Y Rigo vs Estado de Futur, was prepared by Mary Beloff (member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Buenos Aires) and Laura Giosa (Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires) and deals with a lawsuit related to children, gender and violence.

The UMH team successfully participated in the written phase, which ended in January 2024, and then defended the victims in the oral phase of the proceedings, which was held at the University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNICEN) in the city of Tandil from 18 to 22 March 2024.

The international litigation competition is an innovative teaching and internationalisation activity (moot court) that aims to improve the legal training of future lawyers who will litigate before international human rights courts; to further the study of international human rights protection mechanisms from a highly practical perspective; and to promote the creation of an Ibero-American network of lawyers and jurists who are experts in international litigation.

The UMH team’s participation in ComLit has been coordinated by Prof. Elena Crespo Navarro from the Department of Public International Law and International Relations and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at the UMH, and is supported by the UMH Department of Legal Science.

The members of the UMH team were selected from among the students of the Practical Course in International Human Rights Litigation, organised by the Department of Public International Law and International Relations at Miguel Hernández University as part of the Workshop on International Litigation.

The UMH Team at the VII ComLit consisted of three students: two starters, Miguel Asín Muries (Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Public Management) and Francisco Javier Luzón Diago (Bachelor’s Degree in Law), and one substitute, Diego Giner Giner (Double Degree in DADE), as well as two coaches: Rocío M. Pozo Tomás and Adela Rodriguez Mañogil, professors of Public International Law and International Relations at the UMH and doctoral students in the UMH’s Doctoral Programme in Legal Science, under the academic direction of Prof. Dr. Elena Crespo Navarro (holder of the Jean Monet ReinforcEU Chair).

WATCH VIDEO SUMMARY OF THE UMH TEAM’S PARTICIPATION IN THE VII COMLIT

SOME IMAGES OF THE UMH TEAM’S PARTICIPATION IN THE VII COMLIT

PRODIC-UMH PROJECT: CONFRONTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. YOUTH PROPOSALS FOR EUROPEAN-WIDE REGULATION

The Department of Public International Law and International Relations at Miguel Hernández University in Elche organised (through the Jean Monnet ReinforcEU Chair) the Practical Seminar on Tackling Violence against Women: Proposals from Young People for Regulation at European Level.

The seminar, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Elena Crespo Navarro, Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the UMH and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at the UMH, was funded by the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations and Cooperation within the framework of the Programme of Teaching Projects for Internationalisation at Home PRODIC- UMH 2023-2024.

The OBJECTIVE of the seminar was to study part of the European Union Law course programme from a practical perspective using gamification tools (Kahoot and Escape room) and a simulation activity. Specifically, the students had to simulate the EU legislative procedure in order to simulate the debates in Parliament and the Council and the negotiations between both institutions to achieve a final text, based on the actual proposal for a Directive presented by the European Commission in March 2022 on combating violence against women and domestic violence.

The CHOSEN TOPIC, violence against women, is an extremely important and, unfortunately, very topical issue. It is a widespread phenomenon throughout the European Union, which is a serious problem in our society and one of the most severe manifestations of gender inequality. It is also a phenomenon that has taken on new proportions due to technological progress and represents a violation of the most basic fundamental rights.

Fourth-year students from the Double Degree in DADE and students from the UMH’s on-site Law Degree participated in the project, working alongside students from the Italian Universities of Perugia and Cagliari, under the supervision of the professors of Public International Law and European Union Law at those universities: Prof. Dr. Alessandra Lanciotti, Prof. Dr. Simone Vezzani, and Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Carta (University of Perugia) and Prof. Dr. Francesca Ipolito (University of Cagliari). The seminar took place over three sessions (16th, 22nd, and 29th of May 2015) at the UMH’s Faculty of Law, with the participation of 10 students from the Double Degree in DADE and 10 students from the Law Degree. Maria Cristina Carta (University of Perugia) and Prof. Dr. Francesca Ipolito (University of Cagliari).

The seminar took place over three sessions (16, 22 and 23 April 2024), held simultaneously at the three universities via Google Meet.

The sessions were moderated by professors from the Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the UMH: Alessandra Nasoni (Honorary Collaborator); Rocío M. Pozo Tomás (Associate Professor) and Adela Rodríguez Mañogil (Assistant Professor).

All information about the project can be found on its WEBSITE.

 

PIEU PRACTICAL WORKSHOP: CITIZENS' INITIATIVE ON THE PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Students enrolled in the European Union Law course in the 4th year of the Double Degree in Law and Business Administration and Management (DADE) and in the 2nd year of the on-site and blended Law Degree at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) participated in a simulation activity in which they developed a proposal for a European citizens’ initiative on non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the European Union.

The citizens’ initiative, a right of European citizenship, is a mechanism similar to that of the popular legislative initiative at the national level. Through the European citizens’ initiative, a certain number of citizens from several Member States can request the European Commission to activate the legislative procedure by submitting a proposal for a legal act (regulation, directive, etc.) which, if successful, must then be approved by the European Parliament and the Council. The purpose of this activity was to prepare, by consensus, a hypothetical citizens’ initiative to the European Commission on the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the European Union.

The simulation activity took place within the framework of the ‘Practical workshop: citizens’ initiative on the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the European Union’, coordinated by Elena Crespo Navarro, professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the UMH and holder of the Jean Monnet ReinforcEU Chair, thanks to funding from the Vice-Rectorate for Studies (University Teaching Innovation Programme PIEU-UMH 2023-2024).

The workshop was held in two sessions for each degree programme, held in person on 6 and 7 May 2024 in DADE and on 6 and 9 May 2024 in Law. Seven teams were formed, representing groups of residents in seven different EU Member States. In the first session, basic theoretical content was reviewed using gamification tools (Kahoot! and Escape Room), and then the groups presented their initial approaches to the topic of the hypothetical initiative to be presented. In the second session, after a brief presentation of the revised positions and a debate between groups, the students drafted a final consensus text for the citizens’ initiative.

The seminar sessions were moderated by Rocío M. Pozo Tomás and Adela Rodríguez Mañogil, professors in the Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the UMH.

 

WATCH VIDEO OF THE DADE GROUP WORKSHOP

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS AT THE IV INDOCC CONFERENCE

UMH professors in the Department of International Law and International Relations Elena Crespo Navarro, Rocío M. Pozo Tomás, and Adela Rodríguez Mañogil, members of the UMH Jean Monnet Chair ReinforcEU team, participated in the “IV International Congress on Innovation in Teaching and Research in Social and Legal Sciences. New teaching and learning skills for higher education,” held online on the inndoc.org platform on 27 and 28 June 2024 as attendees and presenting the following papers: