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The CTL (30 ECTS) can be completed in one or two semesters. Students take one required course (6 ECTS) and four optional courses (6 ECTS each). 

 

Required Course 

 

Autumn Semester 2025/2026

 

Spring Semester 2026

 

Students may choose to take two of these courses on comparative methodology, but must indicate on the exam registration form which they take as the "required course" for the CTL.

 

 Optional Courses

 

Autumn Semester 2025/2026

Courses in English

Courses in French

 

Spring Semester 2026

Courses in English

Courses in French

  *Courses indicated with an asterisk are only available to students arriving from other Swiss or foreign universities.

 

Seminars, Moot Courts

Students arriving from other Swiss or foreign universities may opt to replace two optional modules with a seminar (12 ECTS credits). Anyone wishing to participate in a seminar is required to notify the Student Secretariat (Office 3093) as soon as possible. Acceptance of CTL students is subject to availability; students doing their Master at UNIGE are prioritised. Information regarding the availability can be sought at the Student Secretariat.

Please note that the planning for seminars, competitions and moot courts will be determined by the professors once the registrations have been completed.

 

Year-long Moot Courts

 

Autumn Semester 2025/26

 

Spring Semester 2025

 

Courses at the Graduate Institute**

Please note: Information on how to sign up to courses at the Graduate Institute will be shared during the CDT/CTL welcome session at the start of the semester.

+++ Attention! Unlike the previous years, the registration for the Graduate Institute courses will take place via the google form available under this link. For CTL students, the deadline for inscriptions is exceptionally Friday, the 19 September 2025, at 5 pm.+++

NB: For those of you who are not yet familiar with the possibility: CTL students can follow a maximum of 2 courses (12 ECTS credits) at the Graduate Institute free of charge in the framework of their CTL. These courses will count as CTL optional courses.


Two of the optional courses may be completed through cross-registration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). CTL students are exceptionally admitted to courses at the Graduate Institute after a minimum of two years of studies. Eligible courses (6 ECTS each)**** may include:

 

Autumn semester 2025/26

  • Business and Human Rights: Law, Politics, Policy, Nico Krisch

  • Authority in International Affairs, Fuad Zarbiyev

  • Business and Human Rights: Law, Politics, Policy, Nico Krisch

  • Compliance with International Law: Theories and Mechanisms, Fuad Zarbiyev

  • Cyber Operations as a Means of Modern Warfare (3 ECTS), Daryna Abbakumova

  • Human Rights and Strategic Litigation (3 ECTS), Héléne Tigroudja

  • International Environmental Law, Anne Saab

  • International Intellectual Property Law: Current Issues (3 ECTS), Edward Kwakwa

  • International Investment Law and Arbitration (3 ECTS), Mavluda Sattorova

  • International Organisations Law, Nico Krisch

  • International Responsibility for Genocide, Paola Gaeta

  • International Tax Law & Policy, Alice Pirlot

  • International Trade Regulation, Joost Pauwelyn

  • Law of the Sea and Related Contemporary Issues (3 ECTS), Maurice K. Kamga

  • Law without the State, Thomas Schultz

  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and International Law, Lys Kulamadayil

  • Regulating the Internet, Neha Mishra

  • Research Seminar on International Law Theories, Andrea Bianchi***

 

Spring semester 2026

  • Africa and Disputed Topics in International Law (3 ECTS), Phoebe Okowa

  • Climate Change Litigation, Anne Saab

  • Foucault's Toolbox, Fuad Zarbiyev

  • Global Food Systems from a Legal Perspective, Anne Saab

  • Global Health Law, Gian Luca Burci

  • Global Justice and International Law, Alice Pirlot

  • Territorial and maritime dispute settlement: The Interplay of Treaty and Custom (3 ECTS), Prabhakar Singh

  • South (Asia) and Law of Nations: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences, Prabhakar Singh

  • Non-International Armed Conflicts in International Law (3 ECTS), Sandesh Sivakumaran

  • The Law and Politics of Global Migration Governance, Vincent Chetail

  • The Laws of War and Just War Philosophy, Andrew Clapham

  • The Politics of International Law Research Seminar, Nico Krisch

  • The Urban in International Law and Governance, Janne Nijman

     

 **Admission subject to the case-by-case approval of the course organiser.

 ***Number of CDT/CTL students limited. Please contact Natalia Henczel (natalia.henczel(at)unige.ch)

****All CDT/CTL courses are worth 6 ECTS, even those which are worth 3 or 9 ECTS at the Graduate Institute.

 

Courses taught in French

CTL students are free to choose up to two courses taught in French. Students who take a majority of courses in French earn the Certificat de Droit Transnational (CDT) instead of the CTL.