 Hello everyone, I am Dr Tina Heathgate and I wanted to get in touch to tell you a little bit more about the International Summer School at Saas, which we're going to host this year for the first time online over two weeks, bit of a pity not to see you in London, but we hope that through making it online that more people in more places will be able to join us on the summer school, which is always international in terms of participants as well as our focus on international law. So the way the course will operate is you'll have a morning lecture, some online forums to work through, a daily tutorial and then kind of closing lecture for me. In the first week what I want to do is go through the foundations of international law, both in terms of concepts such as sources, statehood, international subjects and also thinking about perhaps a little bit of an introduction to international and human rights law, while also introducing you to the kinds of theoretical approaches that we undertake and that we kind of prioritise at Saas. New approaches to international law kind of critical legal voices as well as a twail and post-colonial thinking and how it informs kind of contemporary cutting edge alternatives to the mainstream of international law and that's really by prioritising empire and histories of colonialism as a mechanism to understand how power operates in the international legal structures while still hoping that you're going to get the foundations of the discipline through the course. In the second week we're going to focus a little bit more on the sub-disciplines of international law, collective security, international humanitarian law, law and use of force, self-determination, some introduction to some kind of cutting edge and new topics in international law as well as new scholarship around objects and history in international law. I hope that quite a lot of my colleagues will be joining me and giving some guest lectures, perhaps providing some insight into the stories behind some of the kind of some recent cases at the International Court of Justice. So I hope this has piqued your interest and you're going to come and join us at Saas virtually for our first international law online summer school. See you there.