UDP Internacional

2 June 2023

Leiden Summer Workshop is the new internationalization program of the Faculty of Law, which will take place next July in the Netherlands, thanks to the collaboration agreement signed by the University of Leiden and the Diego Portales University. Four students and one graduate will participate in the program: Ignacio Arancibia, María Pilar Carrasco, Anahí Díaz, Aracelli Nardocci and Sofía Schaad.

Between July 3 and 13, the Leiden Summer Workshop will take place in Leiden and The Hague, an internationalization program that seeks to provide an approach to critical and current legal issues, as well as knowledge of the main courts of the Netherlands. To do this, students will have the opportunity to participate in two Summer Schools at the University of Leiden: International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice and Frontiers of Children’s Rights, they will also visit the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the Supreme Court from the Netherlands. These activities are added to a series of meetings with professors from the Law School of the Dutch university and visits to heritage sites in the European country.

Aracelli Nardocci is one of the students selected to participate in the program, she is currently in her fifth year and comments that her main motivation for applying to the program was the possibility of acquiring new knowledge: “It is the perfect opportunity to learn more about international law, precisely in The Hague, the city of justice and peace, which in turn is the seat of institutions such as the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration”, he comments.

Ignacio Arancibia is also a fifth-year student and will participate in the course on children’s rights, about which he points out: “I would like to know the experience of studying in a foreign university in a language other than Spanish, and obtain tools that allow me in the future to contribute to the legal defense of children and adolescents who see the effective protection of their human rights threatened by the States”.

For María Pilar Carrasco, the attractiveness of this program is given by the possibility of broadening her knowledge in the field of International Humanitarian Law and linking it to areas of interest such as International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law: “I am motivated by opportunity to collaborate and learn alongside students and faculty from diverse cultural backgrounds. I appreciate the support provided by the UDP and I am confident that these initiatives will last over time ”, she values.

The program is sponsored by the Law School Graduates Foundation, which allowed the five participants to receive scholarships.