International Humanitarian Law / International Human Rights Law / International Criminal Law / Public International Law / Transitional Justice / International Criminal Justice / International Immunity Law
Paola Gaeta is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and of the International Spectator (formerly The Italian Journal of International Affairs).
Professor Gaeta is a leading expert on international criminal law and international criminal courts and tribunals and has published widely on these issues. Her research interests focus on international criminal law, particularly with regard to topics more closely related to general issues of public international law and/or exposed to cross-fertilization by international human rights law and international humanitarian law. She is currently leading a research project on Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes: Who is To Bear Criminal Responsibility?
Previously, Professor Gaeta was Director of the Geneva Academy (2007–2014), with Professor Andrew Clapham, where she directed the LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Adjunct Professor at the University L. Bocconi (Milan) (2015-2018) Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2010–2015) and Professor of International Criminal Law at the University of Geneva (2007–2015). From 1998 to 2007, she was consecutively Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of International Law at the University of Florence.
ICC - CPI
LLM - CourseThis course aims to give students an in-depth knowledge of the most crucial issues of international criminal law. After dealing briefly with the birth and evolution of international criminal law as a branch of public international law with regard to the so-called core crimes, the course focuses on the legal ingredients of each core crime (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide).
ICC/CPI
Master in transitional justice - CourseThis course will provide an overview of the contemporary international criminal law regime, with a focus on key controversial issues surrounding the international definition of each so-called 'core' international crime (war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression).
Special Tribunal For Lebanon
Executive Master - CourseThis course examines the mechanisms and institutions available in international law to hold individuals legally accountable for acts amounting to atrocity crimes.
ICC-CPI
Short CourseThis short course, which can be followed in Geneva or online, provides participants with a solid understanding of the existing pluralistic system of international accountability for international crimes and of its main challenges.
Paola Gaeta, Jorge E. Viñuales, Salvatore Zappalá
Oxford University Press
Paola Gaeta, Marco Sassòli, Andrew Clapham
Oxford University Press
Paola Gaeta, Andrew Clapham
Oxford University Press
Paola Gaeta, Antonio Cassese
Oxford University Press