The Hague Academy Winter Course of 2026
The registrations for the Hague Academy Winter Course of 2026 will be open from 1 May 2025 to 1 October 2025 for full fee applicants, and from 1 May 2025 to 31 July 2025 for scholarship applicants.
The course will be opened by Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (Former President of the International Criminal Court) with a lecture on The Emergence of a Judicial Ecosystem to Fight the Most Serious International Crimes.
The general course, titled The Contemporary International Legal Order will be given by Bing Bing Jia (Tsinghua University).
The special courses will be as follows: Catherine Amirfar (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP), Provisional Measures in International Law; Xavier Boucobza (University of Paris-Saclay), The Genesis of Lex Publica in International Trade Law; Caroline Foster (University of Auckland), Facilitative Compliance Mechanisms in Multilateral Treaties; Schuichi Furuya (Waseda University), Changing Aspects of Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict; Yannick Radi (Université catholique de Louvain), Property and International Law; Antonios Tzanakopoulos (University of Oxford), International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty.
The directors of studies will be Guy Fiti Sinclair (University of Auckland) for the English-speaking section, and Vaios Koutroulis (Université libre de Bruxelles) for the French-speaking session.
All applicants are required to register online. A limited amount of scholarships is available. Selected attendees of the Winter Courses will also be able to participate in the doctoral networking sessions, coordinated by Letizia Lo Giacco (Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies), additional afternoon lectures, embassy visits and social activities.
The programme of Hague Academy Winter Course of 2026 is available here.
More information on the Academy’s programmes may be found here.