Within a period of four consecutive days the participants get the opportunity to attend lectures, podium discussions and debates held by professors and specialists as well as politicians and critically question and discuss the targeted topic.

Our Academic Programme:

Day 1

• Opening Speech
  Prof. Thilo Marauhn
  Professor for Public and International Law, University Giessen

Day 2

• Rules of Engagement in multinational crisis response operations
  Director Peter Dreist, German armed forces

• The crime of Aggression – international and German Law Limits on the Use of Force
  Dr. Robert Frau
  Assistant Professor of the Europa-Universität Frankfurt (Oder)

• The Use of US military bases in Germany
  Randall K. Hamelton
  Civilian Deputy to the Bataillon Commander of the 98th Contigency Batallion

Day 3

• Supporting missions of Peshmerga and the Anti-IS flight operations
  Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter
  Professor for Public Law and International Law, University Hamburg

• Self-Defense against non-state actors
  Dr.Paulina Starski
  Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, Heidelberg, and PostDoc at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg

Day 4

• Attacks on hospitals of Doctors Without Borders-Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria
  Dr. Tankred Stöbe
  2007-2015 President of the German Section of Doctors Without Borders

• Humanitarian assistance (relief operations) in Syria
  Prof.Dr. Michael Bothe
  Former Professor for Public Law, International Law and European Community Law

Find more information on our website: seminar-elsa-giessen.de