header-logo header-logo

BIICL—Autumn 2022 training programme

17 August 2022 / Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci
Categories: Legal News , Profession , Career focus
printer mail-detail
Institute launches wide-ranging programme in international law

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol, the government’s response to boats full of people crossing the channel, calls for the return of cultural objects, legislative developments across various fields and other news from around the world continue to highlight the relevance of international law. It also underlines the importance of legal practitioners having a solid understanding of international law as it applies to our various areas of practice.

With this in mind, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) has recently announced its training programme for Autumn 2022. The programme includes some of our flagship courses and a number of new courses, expanding our offer to bring a wide range of international law topics to participants from across the world. The following courses are now available for booking:

Details of all our upcoming courses can be found here.

Like all our courses, these are convened and taught by expert researchers from BIICL’s own team, often in collaboration with external partners. This provides academic expertise with practical experience rarely available in short course format. Our combination of virtual and hybrid courses has allowed us to reach audiences across the globe, supporting our mission of supporting capacity in international law matters. They have enabled legal practitioners, government officials, students, academics, and civil society organisations from around the world to gain expert insights and to deepen their knowledge.

Experience in International Law Training

These courses build on extensive and solid experience. Over the last six years, we have provided training to on a broad range of issues including public and private international law, business and human rights, climate change law, migration law, cultural heritage law, international trade law, law of the sea and the rule of law. In 2021 alone, BIICL trained around 550 lawyers and officials, running some 180 hours of teaching and training across 14 public courses. Participants on our courses have consistently noted how useful, interesting and insightful the courses have been and many have come back for other courses or recommended our courses to friends and colleagues.

About BIICL

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is a leading independent research centre for international and comparative law in the world. It is a dynamic and influential body comprised of around 30 research staff working with an extensive network of advisors and collaborators from across the legal world, business, universities, international organisations and government. BIICL’s approach over the last 60 years of engaging with academia and practice globally has built an unrivalled network of experts who lend their knowledge and experience to strengthen our activities.

The work of BIICL cuts across a broad range of subjects and emerging issues including: the rule of law, access to justice, AI and technology, climate change and the environment, law of the sea, competition law, business and human rights, cultural heritage protection, migration law as well as public and private international law. BIICL takes an outward looking approach and responds quickly and authoritatively to emerging issues through its research and by convening a wide-ranging programme of training and events.

An accessible programme 

To ensure as many individuals are given an opportunity to participate as possible a limited number of scholarships are available for each course. These facilitate engagement for people who cannot otherwise participate in the courses, and for people from communities that are currently under-represented in the legal community. Discounts are also available for group bookings and BIICL individual members. 

We will continue to build on these courses for the future and see the training of lawyers as an important part of BIICL’s mission. In the meantime, we hope to welcome you to one or more of the courses BIICL is offering this Autumn.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Chester office

Slater Heelis—Chester office

North West presence strengthened with Chester office launch

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Cooke, Young & Keidan—Elizabeth Meade

Firm grows commercial disputes expertise with partner promotion

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

NEWS
The House of Lords has set up a select committee to examine assisted dying, which will delay the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
back-to-top-scroll