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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 2026/2027

 

Spring Semester 2027

 

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 2026/2027

Courses in English

Courses in French

 

Spring Semester 2027

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 2026/27

 

Spring Semester 2027

 

Courses at the Graduate Institute**

+++ Please note: The deadline to register for the Graduate Institute courses is Friday, 11 September, i.e. before the start of the semester at UNIGE. You can register via a Google Form under this link. Further information is available on the IHEID website.+++

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. Please wait until you receive a confirmation of your registration from the Graduate Institute (by 23 September at the latest) before attending classes.

 

Two of the optional courses may be completed through cross-registration at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). CTL students are exceptionally admitted to these classes, subject to availability. Eligible courses (6 ECTS each)**** may include:

 

Autumn semester 2026/27

  • Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy, Neha Mishra

  • Authority in International Affairs, Fuad Zarbiyev

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

  • Diplomatic and Consular Law, Daryna Abbakumova

  • Emotions and International Law, Anne Saab

  • Human Rights and the Global South, Awalou Ouedraogo

  • International Environmental Law, Anne Saab

  • International Investment Law (3 ECTS), Chiara Giorgetti

  • International Trade Regulation, Joost Pauwelyn

  • Law without the State, Thomas Schultz

  • Laws of War, Andrew Clapham

  • Re-imagining International Law: From Critique to Praxis, Lys Kulamadayil

  • The Theory and Practice of Treaty Interpretation, Fuad Zarbiyev

  • Water and International Law (3 ECTS), Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

     

Spring semester 2027

  • Climate Change Litigation, Anne Saab

  • Foucault's Toolbox, Fuad Zarbiyev

  • Global Food Systems from a Legal Perspective, Anne Saab

  • Global Health Law, Steven Solomon

  • Global Justice and International Law, Alice Pirlot

  • International Criminal Law, Paola Gaeta

  • International Organisations Law, Nico Krisch

  • International Tax Law and Policy, Alice Pirlot

  • Law of the Sea: Selected Issues (3 ECTS), Nilufer Oral (tbc)

  • Planetary Legal Thinking, Alejandro Rodiles Breton

  • The Law and Politics of Outer Space (3 ECTS), Michael Byers

  • 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 Luisa Reininghaus (luisa.reininghaus(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.