Master in International & European Law
Human Rights, Security & Development

Ioannis K. Panoussis is currently the Vice-Rector in charge of
International Development of the Université catholique de Lille.
Between 2014 and 2020, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the
Catholic University of Lille (Lille/Paris) and delegate for international
development for the University. He co-directs a Master’s degree in
International and European Law, specialising in “Human Rights,
Security and Development”. He specialises in public international law,
international and European human rights law, international
humanitarian law and refugee law.
He has worked as an expert for the UNHCR (UNHCR judge/assessor at
the National Asylum Court) and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(training mission in Afghanistan for staff involved in the protection of
human rights in ministries, international organisations and NGOs). He is
an expert at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and at the
Institut d’Etudes Humanitaires Internationales of Aix Marseille
University.
He is frequently invited to several prestigious institutions (International
Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, EDHEC, IESEG, IEP of Lille) and
has been an evaluator for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
Research.

Valentina Volpe is an Associate Professor of Public International
Law and the Director of the International and European Law
School (IELS). She also co-directs the Advanced Master in
International and European Organizations/Human Rights,
Security &Development at the Faculty of Law, Université
Catholique de Lille (France). Additionally, Valentina serves as an
adjunct professor at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome and
Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and has been an EU expert
since 2019.
Valentina is also a Senior Research Affiliate and former Senior
Research Fellow (postdoc)at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in
Heidelberg, Germany. She has held a visiting researcher position
at Yale Law School, and her academic background includes law
studies in Italy, France, and the US. Valentina holds a Ph.D.
summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian
Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) of Naples, now part of the
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of global,
comparative, and international public law, with a particular
focus on law and globalization, European non-state actors,
human rights, and democracy promotion.
In addition to her current roles, Valentina has taught as a visiting
or adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, Católica Global
School of Law in Lisbon, the China University of Political Science
and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the UN-mandated University for
Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of
Mannheim in Germany.
Before entering academia, Valentina worked as a project
manager for an NGO dedicated to international cooperation and
human rights protection.

Valentina Volpe is an Associate Professor of Public International
Law and the Director of the International and European Law
School (IELS). She also co-directs the Advanced Master in
International and European Organizations/Human Rights,
Security &Development at the Faculty of Law, Université
Catholique de Lille (France). Additionally, Valentina serves as an
adjunct professor at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome and
Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and has been an EU expert
since 2019.
Valentina is also a Senior Research Affiliate and former Senior
Research Fellow (postdoc)at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in
Heidelberg, Germany. She has held a visiting researcher position
at Yale Law School, and her academic background includes law
studies in Italy, France, and the US. Valentina holds a Ph.D.
summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian
Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) of Naples, now part of the
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of global,
comparative, and international public law, with a particular
focus on law and globalization, European non-state actors,
human rights, and democracy promotion.
In addition to her current roles, Valentina has taught as a visiting
or adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, Católica Global
School of Law in Lisbon, the China University of Political Science
and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the UN-mandated University for
Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of
Mannheim in Germany.
Before entering academia, Valentina worked as a project
manager for an NGO dedicated to international cooperation and
human rights protection.

Course: Research Seminar in International and EU Law

Miriam AZIZ is a British / Italian multi-media artist based in Milan, Italy. She began her artistic career as a musician and then later combined dance and film. She has also combined her artistic work with her legal training and scholarship.

As a legal scholar and practitioner, Dr Aziz focused on questions of culture, citizenship and human rights in European and International Law. After receiving a European Baccalaureate from the European School (I) in Brussels, Belgium, she studied law at Manchester University. She was called to the Bar of England & Wales after which she completed a PhD at the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh. After having completed her PhD, she was based at the Department for Political and Social Sciences of the Free University of Berlin. She also worked as a legal consultant for a number of law firms in Berlin during this time (Freshfields-Deringer and Coudert-Schurmann). She then moved to Florence, Italy where she was based at the European University Institute (EUI). She was an Associate Professor in Public and Administrative Law at the Law Department of the University of Siena, Italy. She has also been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Libera Università degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome, Saint Louis University Law School, Université Paris Dauphine and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and a visiting scholar at New York University Law School, Columbia Law School and Cardozo Law School. She was also a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany where she also published articles in Law and Humanities and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.

Francesca Bisiani is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Law of the Université Catholique de Lille, affiliated to C3RD. She holds a doctorate summa cum laude in linguistics from the University of Paris and the Universities of Udine and Trieste. Her current research focuses on institutional terminology in multilingual environments and the impact of artificial intelligence on political and legal concepts. She is a member of the European project ‘Linguistic Rights and Language Varieties in Europe in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’, and is involved in the development of the E-Mimic automatic translator run by the University of Turin.
She is also a member of the committees of the journals De Europa, European and Global Studies Journal and Synergies Italie, and of the Observatoire des discours sur l’Europe.
Francesca studied in Italy, Spain and France, has taught at Sorbonne-Université and SciencesPO, and has worked and collaborated with the European Parliament, in particular in the context of the ‘Cooperation with Universities on Terminology Projects’.

Dr Francesco Romani is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of
International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, where he
coordinates the IHL Expert Pool and contributes to several projects on
evolving themes in international humanitarian law. He is also a Visiting
Lecturer on international responsibility and litigation at the Catholic
University of Lille and has been invited to give lectures and seminars on
international law topics in France (University of Aix en
Provence/Marseille), Italy (Borromeo College, University of Pavia) and
Switzerland (University of Geneva). His research interests include
international humanitarian law, international cultural heritage law,
human rights law, and the theory of sovereignty.
Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, Francesco was a post-doctoral
researcher at the Art-Law Centre of the University of Geneva, where he
acted as Principal Investigator for the Swiss National Science
Foundation project ‘The Temporal Dimension of Sovereignty in Light of
the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts’. He also worked for the ICRC’s
Customary International Humanitarian Law Project at the Lauterpacht
Centre and was a Research Associate at Wolfson College (University of
Cambridge). Francesco has conducted legal research in academic
centres (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed
Conflict, Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre) and
policy-oriented organizations (Interpeace, Justice Rapid Response).
Francesco holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute
of International and Development Studies of Geneva. During his
doctoral studies, he was a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of
Michigan Law School and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School.
His research on belligerent reprisals and their formalization under
international law was published in 2024 in Belligerent Reprisals from
Enforcement to Reciprocity: A New Theory of Retaliation in
Conflict (CUP).

Lille Campus
Mail: caroline.delabre@univ-catholille.fr

Anna Doumbia Diomandé is a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on the responsibility of transnational corporations and violations of dignity. Anna holds a bilingual Law Bachelor’s degree and a bilingual Master’s degree in Business Law, both obtained from the University of Paris Nanterre. Additionally, she has earned a Master’s degree in International and European Litigation, as well as a Master’s degree in Law of Numerical Technologies from the same institution. Anna’s academic journey has been enriched by various experiences, including a visiting program at Queen Mary University and professional engagements in Sicily, where she worked on migration-related cases. Committed to continuous learning, she has participated in both the Winter and Summer Courses of the International Law Academy. For the past three years, Anna has been sharing her expertise as a lecturer in Public International Law at ESPOL, where she has demonstrated a passion for educating future legal minds. In addition to her teaching commitments, Anna has recently published a contribution tackling environmental loss and damages in a third-world approach to international law in the collective piece “Le droit et les fables de la Fontaine,” published by Mare & Martin. Her scholarly work reflects her interdisciplinary approach to law and showcases her passion for interdisciplinary and critical approaches to law.

Matthew Roberts is « Adjoint Etudes » at Clarife (the language centre of the Université Catholique de Lille). Specialised in teaching Legal English he has worked through Clarife with the Faculty of Law since 2009, and on the DIE programs since 2012.

A native English speaker, originally from the United Kingdom, he has a British Law Degree (LLB) from Keele University as well as Masters Degrees in Environmental Politics, touching on elements of international law, from both Université de Lille III in France and Keele University in England.

Michael J. Strauss, who teaches international criminal law at UCL, is
also a professor at the Centre d’Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques
in Paris and a periodic consultant to the UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He previously taught at the
law school of Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5). A dual American and
British citizen, Strauss became a scholar of international law after a
previous career in journalism, during which he covered international
organizations in New York, Geneva and Brussels. His publications
dealing with international legal issues include four books, chapters in
numerous others, and various articles. His areas of focus are territorial
matters (particularly leases of territory between states, where one
publication described him as “one of the foremost authorities on a
neglected area of international law”), international humanitarian law,
human rights and international criminal law.

Upon graduation from the International and European Law departments of the Universities of Paris I – Pantheon-Sorbonne and Paris – Sud, he worked for different international organisations (Council of Europe, OSCE, EU) where he has been occupying posts of legal and policy adviser, focusing primarily on the implementation of reforms in jurisdictions that went through post-conflict democratic consolidation and EU integration processes (Central and Eastern Europe, Western Balkans). Working from a purely advisory perspective, but also under mandates entrusted with executive powers, such as the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina mandated under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, he experienced turbulent events leading to the final stage of disintegration of the former Yugoslav space and the creation of independent countries (Montenegro, Kosovo). The Western Balkans being still in the processes of democratization and Europeanization as post-conflict societies, he saw the advantages, but also the limits of my professional (international) engagement. Since the aforementioned processes are often hostage of sluggish fulfilment of the conditions relevant for integration into the European Union, he focussed on applying his professional experience to the field of scientific research into the phenomenon of the conditionality of candidate countries for EU membership. Thus, in 2014 he received the PhD degree at the Faculty of Law of the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria, at the Department of Public and Constitutional Law within a multidisciplinary program called “Diversity Management and Good Governance”. He has subsequently published some contributions to scientific reviews regarding the implementation of EU and international standards. In addition to the most recent experience as legal adviser in the Delegation of the European Union/EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as to the current function of Deputy Team Leader of the EU4 Justice Project – Phase 2, funded by EU, he conducts several research activities in the field of European integration from the perspective of negotiations in chapters 23 and 24 of the EU Acquis (fight against serious crime, anti-discrimination etc.).

Prof. Réka Somssich is a professor of at ELTE University Budapest. Her
main field of research is EU law, especially internal market law, the
functioning and different procedures of the European Court of Justice
and multilingual lawmaking. She has been contributing to the program
since 2022.

Since October 1, 2020, His Excellency Maurice K. Kamga sits on the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Prior to his election, he was
Legal Secretary at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
(Netherlands). A seasoned diplomat since 1994 (with the rank of
Minister Plenipotentiary) and accomplished academic, he has extensive
experience in the practice and teaching of international law, in general,
and international justice, in particular. He was Legal Adviser to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cameroon (for five years) and has had
unique experience as a jurist in three international judicial institutions,
namely the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (for
four years), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (for three
years) and the International Court of Justice (for 13 years). Maurice
Kamga studied at the University of Yaoundé (Licence, Master’s and
Diplôme d’études approfondies in public law), at the Institut des
relations internationales du Cameroun (Master’s and doctorate in
international relations, diplomacy option), at the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva (Diplôme d’études supérieures and
doctorate in international relations, international law option) and at the
University of Paris Nanterre (Habilitation à diriger des recherches en
sciences juridiques). University of Paris Nanterre (Habilitation to direct
research in legal sciences). In addition to his work as associate
professor at the Catholic University of Lille and visiting professor at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,
he also teaches at several other universities and institutes, including the
Institute of International Relations in Cameroon and the International
Maritime Law Institute in Malta.

Prof. Korhonen has worked in academia and in government, She is Docent at the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland (Finland). She has taught at Boston University (Brussels), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and American University (Cairo) as well as in the Sciences Po Universite intensive doctoral summer program in law; she serves as core faculty in the Institute of Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) and as a member on a number of editorial boards of academic journal/yearbooks. Her teaching spans over a variety of international and law subjects.

Her research interests are global comprising topics of law and policy, emerging technology, critical theory and philosophy. Korhonen’s projects investigate law and governance in the cyberspace, web3.0 technologies and the metaverse. Korhonen’s publications include several books and she is author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters. She has administrative experience from the Finnish government and the EU.

Leonardo MASSAI is a Legal and Policy Advisor for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations where he provides direct counsel, assistance, advice and training to all rainforest nations on International Environmental Law, climate change, clean energy, forestry, climate development plans and multilateral negotiations. He additionally has extensive experience in supporting developing countries in the preparation, submission and implementation of institutional arrangements, legislation review and capacity building on all matters related with the Paris Agreement. Leonardo Massai holds a PhD in Climate Change Law and is also associated with academic institutions where he regularly lectures in EU Law, International and EU Environmental Law, Climate Change Law and Human Rights and Environment. He has a strong record of publishing articles in peer reviewed journals and is currently the editor of several journals and portals in his fields of specialisation. He additionally is an Alternate Member of the Enforcement Branch to the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol (elected as representative of the Asia-Pacific group), where he will serve until 31 December 2021. In 2014, he co-founded Climalia, a specialised private consulting company providing climate services in Italy, where he operates as a climate change law and policy specialist.

Marco Odello is an Emeritus Reader in Law at the Department of Law &
Criminology, Aberystwyth University (United Kingdom), where he
teaches International Law, International Human Rights, International
Humanitarian Law and Comparative Public Law in Undergraduate and
Postgraduate programmes. He regularly supervises PhD and LLM thesis
and dissertations. Marco Odello has worked and co-operated with
international institutions, such as the Italian Committee for UNICEF
(Rome), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Rome), the Institute
for University Cooperation (Rome), the College universitaire Henry
Dunant (Geneva) and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law
(San Remo). Between 2000 and 2003 he was an expert consultant for the
University of Bologna in the EU Tempus Project ‘Towards a European
Model Judge’. He was one of the Principal Investigators in the EU
sponsored Research Project on Parental Rights in Child Education. He
was additionally a member of the Peer Review Panel of the British
Council of the Ministry of Education and International Expert for the
Spanish National Evaluation Agency (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y
Prospectiva). Marco Odello is currently a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy (United Kingdom), the General Editor of the Cambrian Law
Review and a member of the editorial board of Revista Internacional de
Mediación (Madrid) and of Cogent Social Science (Taylor & Francis). His
main fields of research are Public International Law, with specific
attention to issues related to International Human Rights, Humanitarian
Law and the Law of International Organisations. He has also an interest
in the relationship among different legal orders, based on the
methodology provided by comparative legal analysis. He is involved in
both individual and collective research projects, which are developed
nationally and internationally.
https://sites.google.com/site/marcoeodello/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Odello

Course: International Trade Law

Nicola SIBONA is Project Manager for trade defence investigations (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard) at the European Commission (DG Trade). Before joining the European Commission, Mr Sibona worked as a lawyer in the field of international trade law in Brussels and Rome.

Nicola SIBONA holds a Master’s degree from the College of Europe (Bruges), specialising in Community law. He also studied at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands).

Ioannis K. Panoussis is currently the Vice-Rector in charge of
International Development of the Université catholique de Lille.
Between 2014 and 2020, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the
Catholic University of Lille (Lille/Paris) and delegate for international
development for the University. He co-directs a Master’s degree in
International and European Law, specialising in “Human Rights,
Security and Development”. He specialises in public international law,
international and European human rights law, international
humanitarian law and refugee law.
He has worked as an expert for the UNHCR (UNHCR judge/assessor at
the National Asylum Court) and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(training mission in Afghanistan for staff involved in the protection of
human rights in ministries, international organisations and NGOs). He is
an expert at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and at the
Institut d’Etudes Humanitaires Internationales of Aix Marseille
University.
He is frequently invited to several prestigious institutions (International
Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, EDHEC, IESEG, IEP of Lille) and
has been an evaluator for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
Research.

Dr Chiara Redaelli is a Senior Legal Adviser at Diakonia IHL Centre and
visiting professor at the Catholic University of Lille and the University of
La Sabana in Bogotà. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal on the Use
of Force and International Law and member of the International Law
Association (ILA) Committee on the Use of Force.
Before joining Diakonia, she was Research Fellow at the Geneva
Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and at
Harvard Law School. She also formerly worked with UNHCR in Cox’s
Bazar (Bangladesh) and Beijing (China).
Her areas of expertise include international humanitarian law, use of
force, and international criminal law. She is the author
of Intervention in Civil Wars: Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Human
Rights (Hart Publishing 2021). Her work has been published in peerreviewed
journals including the International Review of the Red Cross,
the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, and International
Law Studies.

Aurélien RACCAH is a doctor in comparative public law since 2009. His thesis topic is: “The direct application of European Union law by decentralised entities. A comparative approach in Germany, in the United Kingdom and in France”. He obtained his certificate of aptitude for the profession of lawyer in 2009 and works at ELEA (Paris).
He is a permanent lecturer at the faculty since 2009, assistant to the dean in charge of international development, pedagogical manager of the European law degree, co-director of the International and European Law School (IELS), manager of the PrepAvocat and member of C3RD.
He teaches in European Legal Proccedings, European Integration and German public law. He supervises a research seminar on international and European law.
His research area is European Union law. He is a founding member of the Global Legal Network (GLN).

Mail: aurelien.raccah@univ-catholille.fr
Tel : 03.59.30.25.03

Course : Environmental Protection and Human Rights with Silvia Bartolini

Sofia Tzortzi is a qualified EU lawyer (in Athens and Nicosia) and a political scientist specialised in EU law and policies. Her interests and experience revolve around EU public law, human rights and environmental law/sustainable development. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of London as well as a Master’s from the College of Europe. Currently she is a scholar – PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari where she researches on the relation of EU investment law with sustainable development. She has worked in Brussels at the cabinet of a former Commissioner for the environment, as the coordinator of COREPER I (deputy Mertens) at the Council of the EU for the Cyprus Presidency and as a consultant for private undertakings in the area of EU environmental law. Since 2017 she has been also teaching university graduate and post-graduate students on EU institutional law, environmental law, sustainable tourism, EU external action and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. In addition, she has been coaching teams for moot court competitions in the areas of human rights and international law. She is regularly writing for the think-tank on Serbia’s EU integration ‘European Policy Centre’ and she is underway preparing publications in edited volumes. A Greek national, Sofia Tzortzi is fluent in English and in French and also speaks Italian and Spanish.

Patrick Schneider is a UK-based, dually qualified lawyer (Germany /
England and Wales). He spent many years working for international
organisations (UN, EU, OSCE) as well as for NGOs in the field of
international humanitarian and human rights law, peace and justice,
security-sector reform, transitional justice, legal drafting, and political
affairs. He lived and worked in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chad, Egypt,
Germany, Iraq incl. Kurdistan, Israel & Palestinian Territories, Kosovo,
Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Macedonia, Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia.
Among other assignments, Patrick investigated war crimes and acts of
terrorism, drafted constitutional provisions and parliamentary
legislation, trained judges and prosecutors, and worked as a political
advisor to different EU missions in the Middle East. In 2023, he changed
his career and works now as a Senior Crown Prosecutor at the Crown
Court of England and Wales. His teaching methodology is case-based
with active student participation. The case scenarios discussed during
the course are real-life cases based on his own professional experience
in different parts of the world.

Course : Environmental Protection and Human Rights with Silvia Bartolini

Sofia Tzortzi is a qualified EU lawyer (in Athens and Nicosia) and a political scientist specialised in EU law and policies. Her interests and experience revolve around EU public law, human rights and environmental law/sustainable development. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of London as well as a Master’s from the College of Europe. Currently she is a scholar – PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari where she researches on the relation of EU investment law with sustainable development. She has worked in Brussels at the cabinet of a former Commissioner for the environment, as the coordinator of COREPER I (deputy Mertens) at the Council of the EU for the Cyprus Presidency and as a consultant for private undertakings in the area of EU environmental law. Since 2017 she has been also teaching university graduate and post-graduate students on EU institutional law, environmental law, sustainable tourism, EU external action and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. In addition, she has been coaching teams for moot court competitions in the areas of human rights and international law. She is regularly writing for the think-tank on Serbia’s EU integration ‘European Policy Centre’ and she is underway preparing publications in edited volumes. A Greek national, Sofia Tzortzi is fluent in English and in French and also speaks Italian and Spanish.

Independent Arbitrator, Member of the Paris Bar and Founding Partner
of TALEX INTERNATIONAL, Pierre Daureu specialises in the prevention
(contract management) and resolution of complex cross-border
disputes, particularly in Africa, LATAM and Europe.
As a member of arbitral tribunals and Counsel, Pierre has been involved
in more than 75 international arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc
(notably UNCITRAL) and under the aegis of a great array of arbitration
institutions (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, Swiss Arbitration Center, DIAC, NAI,
LMAA, CCIR…).
He has particular expertise in public international law, and complex,
often politically sensitive, commercial and investment disputes
involving sovereign states, state entities and state-owned companies,
particularly in the oil and gas, mining and construction industries. He
also maintains a significant activity as a lawyer in judicial proceedings
(in France and internationally) related to arbitration and the
enforcement of arbitral awards.
He works in English, French and Spanish, and reads and understands
Italian.

Tiffany is admitted to the New York and Florida bars and is a partner at
Pierson Ferdinand LLP, where she co-heads the firm’s international
litigation and international practice. Tiffany specializes in international
arbitration, where she acts as counsel and arbitrator before the ICC,
AAA, DRC and other arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc cases. Her
extensive experience covers arbitrations in the international agriculture,
food and beverage sectors, as well as energy, oil and gas. Tiffany is one
of three attorneys certified by The Florida Bar as experts in international
law, arbitration and litigation. She regularly handles cases in English,
Spanish and French.
Tiffany holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law
Center and a Master 2 in Law and Economic Globalization from
Sciences Po and Université de Paris I Sorbonne.

Juan M. AMAYA-CASTRO graduated in international legal studies from Leiden University and obtained his PhD in Law from VU University of Amsterdam, where he was also a Post Doctoral researcher. He has been a research fellow at Harvard Law School, Tilburg Law School and has taught international and European law at Utrecht University and Erasmus University. He taught and was Head of the Department of International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. He is currently Associate Professor of Law at Los Andes University in Bogotá (Colombia) where he teaches various courses related to law and the global political economy. His research interests are diverse (migration, law and geography, political economy) but he has been focusing on the transnational and international legal governance of global supply chains, with a focus on human rights and the environment, and with special attention to stakeholder participation. He has been Visiting Professor at the Lille Catholic University since 2022.

Graduate from Edhec Business School, having lived +15 years abroad (Africa & Europe) and with a first part of career in the entertainment industry (Dargaud & Harry Potter), Ambroise is a certified coach, amateur actor & change facilitator. His two values ​​to foster change are fun and excellence. Being trilingual he give his trainings and coachings in English, Spanish and French.

Sebastien Botreau Bonneterre is a jurist specializing in human rights and humanitarian law, as well as issues relating to the rule of law. He has worked as a legal advisor to the French Ministry of Defence’s Office for the Law of Armed Conflict, as a temporary lecturer at the University of Caen, as Director of the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace, as a technical and scientific cooperation attaché to the French Embassy in Northern Macedonia, and as a government advisor to the Albanian Prime Minister as an international technical expert. He is currently cooperation attaché responsible for governance issues at the French Embassy in Bangui, Central African Republic. As part of his current assignment, he is working on state reform and transitional justice processes. Sebastien Botreau-Bonneterre has been teaching for 23 years in various academic and military institutions, including the Université de Caen-Normandie and the Université Catholique de Lille.

Armando Rocha is Professor of International Law at the
Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He is a member of the
Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law, where he has
conducted research in the areas of the law of the sea and
climate change. He is currently Europe regional Leader at the
Sabin Center for Climate Change. In the course of his research,
he was accepted as a visiting scholar at the University of
Glasgow in Scotland and at the Max-Planck-Institut für
ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. He has also
been a visiting professor at the Harry Radzyner Faculty of Law at
the IDC Herzliya and at St. Joseph’s University in Macao, China.

Oriane Cabaret has been a member of the Lille Bar since
November 2015. She has been practicing foreigners’ law as a
sole practitioner since January 2021, after working as an
associate in the law firms of Me Clément (Roubaix) and Me
Rivière (Lille Legal). More specifically, she assists people with
administrative procedures (regularization and naturalization)
and handles litigation in these two areas, as well as refusals of
visas to enter France and administrative detention.
She is also a lecturer on foreigners’ rights litigation at the
Université Catholique de Lille, and gives training courses at
IXAD, the Lille North-West Lawyers’ School.

Dr. Daria Sartori (Ph.D.) is a practicing human rights lawyer,
registered with both the Italian and the French Bar. She holds a
PhD and Doctor Europaeus in Comparative and European Legal
Studies from Trento University (Italy) and has previously worked
as a case-processing lawyer for the Registry of the European
Court of Human Rights.
Her ongoing work as partner and supervisor of The Rule 39 Pro
Bono Initiative focuses on human rights litigation for the
protection of people on the move and asylum seekers. Cases
lodged before the European Court of Human Rights under her
supervision resulted in 2023 in receiving together with her team
the PILnet 2023 Global Partnership Award and of LawWorks
2023 Best International Pro Bono Award
Daria is Executive Director of the EU Public Interest Law Clinic of
New York University – Paris Campus, as well as part-time
lecturer at Science Po Toulouse and at the Faculty of Law of
Université Catholique de Lille. As an expert on asylum and
migration, she regularly holds consultancy positions within
international organizations, including UNHCR and the Council of
Europe.

Senada Sali holds an MA in Constitutional Law from the Law Faculty “Iustinian Primus” in Skopje and a second MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Ms. Sali has worked for the European Roma Rights Centre since July 2014 and  is the first Romani woman that has held the position of lawyer in the organization. Her main work has been a combination of community organising, evidence gathering, and litigation. She has taken the lead on cutting-edge human rights litigation before domestic courts in several Western Balkan countries, before the European Court of Human Rights, and before the UN CEDAW Committee. Her case porftolio includes cases of racial profiling at borders, prison death of Roma, mistreatment of Romani children in state care, discrimination in access to water and public utilities, school segregation. She coordinated various projects, including a large-scale research project on Romani statelessness. In 2018 she was awarded with the USAID Civic Engagement Award.

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Mail: caroline.delabre@univ-catholille.fr

Delphine Dogot is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of law and technology, international law and legal philosophy, in particular in relation to global governance, risk and security.

She is the Director of LeStudio, a collaborative and creative digital/law lab and the Academic Director of the Master in Law, Governance & Technology and Winter & Summer and Graduate Diploma in Law and Digital Technologies.

Before joining the Faculty of Law, Delphine Dogot was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Law Department of HEC Paris, an OXPO Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, a Fellow at Sciences Po Law School and a researcher the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy at ULB where she is an affiliate researcher.

She is regularly invited to teach at Sciences Po Paris, Université Aix-Marseille, HEC Paris, Université Panthéon Assas, Universidad des Los Andes, Université Libre de Bruxelles et Universidad UNISINOS Porto Alegre.

Trained in law and philosophy, Delphine Dogot holds a Ph.D. in Law from Sciences Po Law School, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law from Université Panthéon Sorbonne, an M.A in Sociology and B.A. in Philosophy from Université Paris Sorbonne.

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Julie GOFFIN is Legal Counsel in International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law at the International Criminal Court in the Hague (Netherlands). She has been practicing for more than 15 years as a lawyer specialised in International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law.

Julie Goffin trains lawyers in various European and African countries and has participated to numerous international projects and missions as expert in International Law.

She currently holds the position of Human Rights and Protection of Lawyers’ coordinator at the Union Internationale des Avocats where she also chairs the International Criminal Defence Commission.

Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou is a Programme Leader in International
Relations and Mass Communications and a faculty member at
the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Unicaf, Cyprus. She additionally teaches Comparative
Government and International Relations at Lille Catholic
University as a visiting lecturer.
She holds a PhD in Politics and Government from the University
of Kent, along with an MA in European Politics and Democracy
Studies and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. She
also holds a Ptychion in Philosophy and Classics from the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Her current research interests focus on the political and social
dimensions of the European project, the complexities regarding
the course of European Integration, and the (re)emergence of
new and old ideological trends in both European and
International Politics. She furthermore examines issues relating
to electoral behavior, participation, rights and control, within the
framework of the surveillance and data collection activities.

Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science
(International Relations) and is a lecturer at the Université
Catholique de Lille (Faculty of Law). She was previously a
researcher at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École
Militaire (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, in
charge of sub-Saharan Africa. She teaches at Sciencespo Paris
and is an associate researcher at the Fondation pour la
Recherche Stratégique (FRS) and the Chaire Raoul Dandurand.
She co-edits the Africa section of the Annuaire Français des
Relations internationales (AFRI). She is co-responsible for
C3RD’s Security theme, co-animator of the Security axis of the
Observatoire du multilatéralisme et des organisations
internationales, member of Rubicon’s editorial board and editor
of the Revue Internationale de Politique comparée. Her work
focuses on peace and security issues in the Horn of Africa,
hierarchy and decentralization in international relations, and
foreign policy. Her publications include “Djibou: la diplomatie de
géant d’un pet Etat”, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
(2020), “Géopolitique de l’Afrique” in the “Que sais-je?”
collection, Presses Universitaire de France (2022 and reissued
in 2024), “Pourquoi l’Afrique est entrée dans l’histoire (sans
nous)? “(Hikari Editions, 2022); in 2023, with Delphine Allès and
Melissa Levaillant, “Regards croisés sur la paix et la sécurité:
une anthologie décentrée” (CNRS Editions); and finally,
“Afriques: idées reçues sur un continent composite” (Cavalier
bleu, 2025).

Yasmine works in the Career Centre at the Université Catholique de Lille.

On a daily basis, she helps students to build their career path and develop their interpersonal skills.

She has a PhD in Biology and a Master’s degree in Innovation Management.

After several years as codesign and collective intelligence facilitator on innovation projects, she now helps students to develop their professional project through group workshops and individual coaching sessions.

Academic Background: Jania Maria Lopes Saldanha completed
a postdoctoral program at the Institut des Hautes Études sur la
Justice (IHEJ) in Paris (2014–2015), with a CAPES scholarship
and under the supervision of Antoine Garapon. She holds a
Doctorate in Public Law from UNISINOS – Universidade do Vale
do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. She also holds a degree in Legal and
Social Sciences from PUCRS – Pontifícia Universidade Católica
do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Professional Experience: Jania Maria Lopes Saldanha is a
Habilitated Associate Professor (Livre-Docente) in Public
International Law at the Institute of International Relations of the
University of São Paulo. She is also a member of the
Commission for Monitoring the Compliance with International
Human Rights Obligations Undertaken by Brazil (COI), under the
National Human Rights Council of Brazil.
She is a Full Professor at the School of Law (Master’s and
Doctorate programs) at UNISINOS. She was a Visiting Professor
at Université Catholique de Lille during the academic year 2022–
2023. She previously served as a Professor at the Federal
University of Santa Maria, Brazil. She was also a Visiting
Professor, selected through a public selection process, at the
Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL),
Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris (2016–2017). She serves as
a Specialist Member of the Monitoring and Actions Committee
on the implementation of international obligations in matters of
human rights (COI), under the National Human Rights Council of
Brazil. She is a Member of the State Human Rights Council of the
State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was a Consultant hired by
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She is the
Coordinator of the research group CCULTIS – Center for
Comparative Legal Cultures, Internationalization of Law, and
Justice Systems.
Research Areas: Her research areas include the
internationalization of human rights, legal cosmopolitanism, the
right to non-discrimination, human rights and business, and
transitional justice.
Publication: She is the author of the book Legal
Cosmopolitanism: Theories and Practices Between
Globalization and Mundialization.

Dr Bartolini is Associate Professor of EU law at Université
Catholique de Lille, Associate Researcher at C3RD and Guest
Lecturer at University of Athens. Previously, she worked at the
European Court of Justice as a référendaire.
Graduate in law from the Sapienza University, Silvia Bartolini
holds a MA in International and European Law from Université
Catholique de Louvain, a MA in European Advanced
Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe. In
December 2017, she was awarded with a PhD in European Law
from King’s College London.
She previously practiced International Human Rights Law and
most notably acted as Legal Counsel for the Kafkaris v
Cyprus case, before the Grand Chamber of the European Court
of Human Rights.
She was a visiting lecturer at King’s College London where she
was nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award, at BSIS
University of Kent, European School of Political and Social
Science Lille and Universita di Verona.
Her published work has appeared in renowned international Law
reviews such as Common Market Law Review, European Human
Rights Law Review, European Public Law Review and Journal de
Droit Européen.

Julien MORICEAU is a consultant and researcher in justice sector reform and social development for the consultancy firm C-lever.org. He is based in Port Louis, Mauritius. He holds a Master Degree in Sociology of Law from Paris II Panthéon Assas University (2004) and is conducting a PhD research focusing on access to justice and social development  at Catholic University of Louvain (ongoing, since 2015).  He has collaborated with various organisations: NGOs (Avocats Sans Frontières, RCN justice et démocratie, Impunity Watch), International Organisations (United Nations, Agence Française de Développement, DfID, Enabel, European Union, VLIR-UOS, ARES) and Universities (Lille Catholic University, Ngozi University, Aix Marseille University).

Over the past 15 years, he has conducted several field studies focusing on the Rule of Law and access to justice in fragile contexts, external evaluations of development & academic programs and has facilitated processes for the development of sector wide policies. He also conducted capacity building and training programs for civil society and public actors. He has experience in different countries: Burundi (5 years), Haiti (1 year), Vietnam (1 year) and also Algeria, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, The Philippines, Tunisia, and Uganda.

Valentina Volpe is an Associate Professor of Public International
Law and the Director of the International and European Law
School (IELS). She also co-directs the Advanced Master in
International and European Organizations/Human Rights,
Security &Development at the Faculty of Law, Université
Catholique de Lille (France). Additionally, Valentina serves as an
adjunct professor at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome and
Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, and has been an EU expert
since 2019.
Valentina is also a Senior Research Affiliate and former Senior
Research Fellow (postdoc)at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in
Heidelberg, Germany. She has held a visiting researcher position
at Yale Law School, and her academic background includes law
studies in Italy, France, and the US. Valentina holds a Ph.D.
summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian
Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) of Naples, now part of the
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of global,
comparative, and international public law, with a particular
focus on law and globalization, European non-state actors,
human rights, and democracy promotion.
In addition to her current roles, Valentina has taught as a visiting
or adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, Católica Global
School of Law in Lisbon, the China University of Political Science
and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the UN-mandated University for
Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of
Mannheim in Germany.
Before entering academia, Valentina worked as a project
manager for an NGO dedicated to international cooperation and
human rights protection.

Dr Maria VARAKI is a lecturer in International Law at the War Studies department, King’s College London. Before moving to London, she held research positions with the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki and the Law Faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Immediate before, she was an Assistant Professor in International Law at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Law in Istanbul.

She holds a PhD in International Criminal Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway, Ireland and two LLM degrees in International and Comparative Law, one from Tulane University, School of Law and one from New York University, School of Law. Additionally, she has worked for the OHCHR in Geneva, the UNHCR in New York and for the Legal Advisory section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Since November 2017 she is member of the ILA Committee on human rights in times of emergency.

John Baptist ONAMA is a bona fide Doctoral Fellow in International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy at the University of Bucharest and the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) of Berlin.

Over the last twenty years he has collaborated with a number of public institutions and Non-Governmental Organisations as an independent consultant, trainer and lecturer in the field of Human Development Studies. Such entities include the University of Padua, the Municipality and the Provincial Administrations of Padua, the Italian Committee for UNICEF, Save the Children Italy and Amnesty International.

Presently, he is a freelance consultant in EU Project Management at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Brussels, as well as a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the Salesian University Institute of Venice, where he has been teaching International Cooperation, Project Management, Preventive Methodologies, Intercultural Pedagogy,  and Techniques and Methodologies of Educational Intervention in Intercultural Contexts.

Furthermore, in the course of time his specific areas of active engagement  have also included: sensitisation campaigns with primary school pupils and secondary school students focusing the themes of Human Rights, Gender Equality, Sustainable Human Development, Migration and Global Citizenship Education; project feasibility and evaluation study missions in the field of International Development Cooperation;  Intercultural Mediation and Conflict Management within the framework of the Social Welfare Services and in the Non-for-profit sector. He has also written and published a number of essays and articles focusing the above-mentioned themes.

Xavier PACREAU is a doctor of public law. He has been a permanent lecturer at the Faculty since 2015, is Head of the European law degree on the Issy-les-Moulineaux campus and is a member of the C3RD. He is involved in courses such as introduction to public law, constitutional law and refugee litigation. His areas of research are international criminal law, the law of the use of force, asylum law and humanitarian law.

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Mail: xavier.pacreau@univ-catholille.fr

Ioannis K. Panoussis is currently the Vice-Rector in charge of
International Development of the Université catholique de Lille.
Between 2014 and 2020, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the
Catholic University of Lille (Lille/Paris) and delegate for international
development for the University. He co-directs a Master’s degree in
International and European Law, specialising in “Human Rights,
Security and Development”. He specialises in public international law,
international and European human rights law, international
humanitarian law and refugee law.
He has worked as an expert for the UNHCR (UNHCR judge/assessor at
the National Asylum Court) and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(training mission in Afghanistan for staff involved in the protection of
human rights in ministries, international organisations and NGOs). He is
an expert at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and at the
Institut d’Etudes Humanitaires Internationales of Aix Marseille
University.
He is frequently invited to several prestigious institutions (International
Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, EDHEC, IESEG, IEP of Lille) and
has been an evaluator for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific
Research.

Mohsin Alam Bhat is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Executive-Director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the Jindal Global Law School in Delhi (India).

He clerked with Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Supreme Court of India before completing his LL.M. and J.S.D. at Yale Law School. He has lectured at NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad (India), and National Law University Delhi (India).

His areas of research include Constitutional Law and Theory, Equality and Discrimination Law, Law and Religion as well as Law and Social Movements. He is mostly interested in combining multiple methodologies, particularly ethnographic methods, in the study of Law.

In 2016, he was awarded the Gruber Fellowship in Global Justice and Women’s Rights (Yale) and started an ongoing empirical research on urban rental housing discrimination in India. He has worked on the affirmative action in India, and the role of rights and constitutional discourse in minority political mobilization in India. He currently continues to work on hate crimes and mob violence in India, discrimination in the urban space, and minority rights.

Course: Research Seminar- Discriminations

Benedetta Barbisan is Associate Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Macerata (Italy) and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (USA). During her career she has visited Boston College Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, King’s College London and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). She also coordinates a doctoral programme in Global Studies on Justice, Rights and Politics. Her work focuses on human rights and judicial activism, as well as on the constitutional implications of the “right to die”.

Author of numerous essays in academic journals and book chapters on constitutional law in comparative perspective, she has also written books on the origin of judicial review in the United States in 2008, on the dialogue between the Italian Constitutional Court, the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights in 2016 and on constitutionalism and the “right to die” in 2019.

Founder of the Alberico Gentili Conferences, she created the first conference on comparative constitutional law in Italy, which brings together academics and internationally renowned judges from supreme and constitutional courts around the world.

Nadia Bernaz is an Associate Professor of Business Law and Human Rights at Wageningen University (Netherlands). Adjunct lecturer of the Irish Centre for Human Rights (National University of Ireland, Galway) and visiting researcher at Middlesex University School of Law in London, she has held teachings positions in five different institutions in four countries across Europe, in the past two decades.

Nadia Bernaz is a specialist in Public International Law, Human Rights and International Criminal Law. Her field of research focuses on business and human rights. She notably examines how corporations and businesspeople can be held accountable for their human rights violations, through domestic, international and transnational processes.
Her book, Business and Human Rights – History Law and Policy, Bridging the Accountability Gap (Routledge, 2017) is one of the first, comprehensive books ever published in the area, and her second sole-authored monograph. She has also published two edited books and over 20 journal articles and book chapters. Her articles appear in journals of international excellency such as Human Rights Quarterly, Public Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice and the inter-disciplinary Journal of Business Ethics.
She furthermore founded and runs Rights as Usual, a well-respected blog on business and human rights which provides early-career and more established researchers with the opportunity to share their ideas.

Course: International Criminal Law Litigation

Catherine DENIS is Manager of Reconciliation and Culture Programmes at the European Commission (DG NEAR) and a former lawyer specialising in international criminal justice and transitional justice.

Catherine Denis holds a doctorate on the normative powers of the United Nations Security Council, which she obtained at the University of Brussels (ULB), where she also held the position of teaching assistant in international law.

From 2015 to 2017, she was a legal advisor at Avocats sans Frontières (ASF), where she provided technical assistance in international criminal law and transitional justice projects in different countries.

Prior to that, she was a legal officer at the Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004-2008) and at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (2008-2010).

She also represented victims in two cases before the International Criminal Court (2009-2015) and worked at the Defence Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as a senior consultant in international criminal law, transitional justice, human rights and judicial capacity building (2017).

Eliane Fischer is a senior partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Vienna (Austria) and a visiting professor of international commercial arbitration at the Université Catholique de Lille.
She specialises in international litigation and arbitration, in particular complex international disputes in the field of construction and engineering, sales and supply contracts, joint ventures, the energy sector as well as investment disputes.

Eliane Fischer completed her legal education at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Master) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (Master in International Affairs). Before joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, she worked as an associate in the office of Schellenberg Wittmer and as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Guillaume FUTHAZAR is a researcher in comparative public law at the Max Planck Institute and in international law in Heidelberg. His current research focuses on international law and biodiversity, as well as on the relationship between law and science. He has a doctorate from the University of Aix-Marseille and completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of a lawyer (Sandrine Maljean Dubois) and an ecologist (Wolfgang Cramer).

Course: International Responsibility and Litigation

Dr Mamadou HÉBIÉ is a lawyer and special assistant to the President of the International Court of Justice, His Excellency Judge Abdulqawi A. Yusuf. Prior to joining the Court, he was Assistant Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University (2016-2018) and, before that, a lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (MIDS programme) (2013-2016). Since 2014, he has been teaching at the Catholic University of Lille as a visiting professor.

He holds a doctorate with honours (2012), and a postgraduate diploma – specialised in international law (2006), from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and is also a graduate of Harvard Law School (2012) and of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2005), and has received diplomas from The Hague Academy of International Law (2010) and the International Institute of Human Rights (2009). His thesis on “Agreements between colonial powers and local political entities as a means of acquiring territorial sovereignty” won the Paul Guggenheim Prize in International Law in 2016.

He was counsel to the Argentine Republic in the ARA Libertad case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, as well as a consultant to the African Union’s border programme.

Course: International Organisations Law

Cristina Hoss is a Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and has been a Visiting Professor at Lille Catholic University since 2013. She also lectures at other Universities, including at the University of Leiden. Before joining the ICJ in 2004, Cristina Hoss was a Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2000-2004). Between 2015 and 2017, while on leave from the ICJ, she served as Legal Adviser to Judge Bruno Simma at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. She holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Paris II (Panthéon – Assas) where she also completed her Master’s degree.

Iga Kurowska holds a PhD in law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the Head of Innovation at the Karnov Group (Southern Region), Europe’s leading provider of legal information and software. Former founder of a legaltech start-up, she regularly lectures students and professionals on how innovation can improve the practice of law.

Carolyn Moser, Head of the Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, in Heidelberg (Germany), is specialised in the law and governance of peace and security. In her recent work, which she is conducting in the framework of her research group “Borderlines”, she aims to highlight new governance trends in the various EU security policies and instruments.

Trained in law and political science at Sciences Po (Paris) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA), she holds a PhD from Utrecht University on the civilian dimension of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy, for which she was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society.

Her peer-reviewed publications include a monograph with Oxford University Press on EU security and defence responsibility (forthcoming 2020), a co-edited book on the OSCE legal framework (Cambridge University Press, 2019) as well as chapters in several edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar, Springer) and articles in international journals (Public Administration, ZaöRV).

After obtaining her Master’s Degree in Private International Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Clémence Levesque continued her research work in foreigners’ law, while volunteering at the Gisti. She also taught for 5 years at the University of Paris 1 in a European law Master’s degree class. In 2005, she joined the general management of Pôle emploi, before joining the Défenseur des droits at its creation in 2011. She then specialised in non-discrimination law and devoted herself for 8 years to missions to promote equality, particularly in the field of employment. In 2020, she became Head of the Hauts-de-France Regional Humand Rights Defender Office and coordinated the activities of 44 delegates in the region.

Course: International Arbitration

Moritz SCHMITT has been teaching a course on international commercial arbitration at the Université Catholique de Lille with Ms Angelina Petti and Ms Eliane Fischer since 2017. He is a senior partner in the litigation group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Frankfurt.
Moritz works as an advisor on international commercial arbitration matters, with a focus on corporate litigation, sales, supply and distribution contracts, and joint ventures. In addition, Moritz’ practice includes complex corporate law litigation before German courts.

Moritz received his legal education at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the Higher Hanseatic Regional Court of Hamburg (Germany), the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and the NYU School of Law (USA). He previously worked in Freshfields’ offices in Hamburg, Hong Kong, Paris and Vienna. Moritz was also seconded to Airbus in Toulouse, France. He is recognised as a future leader in the field of arbitration by Who is Who Legal 2019.

Course: Human Rights Litigation

Ana-Maria Telbis is a programme coordinator for a Europe-wide judicial training project (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) at the Council of Europe.

She obtained her law degree in 2005, followed by a Master’s degree in Business Law at the Western University of Timisoara, Romania (2008), and a postgraduate diploma in comparative law at the International Faculty of Comparative Law in Strasbourg, France (2007).

She graduated in International Humanitarian Law from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy (2012), and was admitted as a qualified lawyer at the Timis Bar in 2006.

She has since gained extensive experience in civil, commercial and criminal law and has worked with NGOs such as the International Bar Association (2008), where she participated in outreach and monitoring activities with the IBA-ICC (International Criminal Court) programme in The Hague, Netherlands.

Ana-Maria Telbis also worked at the European Court of Human Rights (2007-2012), where she dealt with cases against Romania and participated in other activities such as conducting research and presentations on the role of the Court.

She previously served as Director at the European Association for Human Rights in Strasbourg (2012-2017), where she coordinated several capacity-building and research programmes and conducted numerous consultations on human rights issues. Her expertise extends to trial observation and reporting, as part of an OSCE project.

She has extensive experience in training, having organised workshops and given lectures on the Convention system and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, NGO representatives and students from various countries.

Throughout her career, she has published various articles on the implementation of ECHR judgments and on specific issues related to the protection of human rights, such as gender equality and freedom of expression.)

Tatiana Trussevits is a senior lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights where she has worked for over seventeen years. She studied law in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Budapest, Hungary, and Strasbourg, France. Her areas of expertise include the right to life, prohibition of ill-treatment, freedom of expression and of assembly, the right to free elections, and the rights of LGBTI persons.

Course : Environmental Protection and Human Rights with Silvia Bartolini

Sofia Tzortzi is a qualified EU lawyer (in Athens and Nicosia) and a political scientist specialised in EU law and policies. Her interests and experience revolve around EU public law, human rights and environmental law/sustainable development. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Strasbourg, the University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of London as well as a Master’s from the College of Europe. Currently she is a scholar – PhD candidate at the University of Cagliari where she researches on the relation of EU investment law with sustainable development. She has worked in Brussels at the cabinet of a former Commissioner for the environment, as the coordinator of COREPER I (deputy Mertens) at the Council of the EU for the Cyprus Presidency and as a consultant for private undertakings in the area of EU environmental law. Since 2017 she has been also teaching university graduate and post-graduate students on EU institutional law, environmental law, sustainable tourism, EU external action and the rights of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe. In addition, she has been coaching teams for moot court competitions in the areas of human rights and international law. She is regularly writing for the think-tank on Serbia’s EU integration ‘European Policy Centre’ and she is underway preparing publications in edited volumes. A Greek national, Sofia Tzortzi is fluent in English and in French and also speaks Italian and Spanish.

Gabriela ZENI is a lecturer in public international law and EU institutions and procedures. She is also in charge of the Advanced Clinic Law, a class in which Master 1 students participate in an international law competition organised by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Gabriela started her academic career at the University of Brasília in her native Brazil. After completing two years of undergraduate studies in political science, she decided to continue her studies at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) at the Catholic University of Lille.

Gabriela ZENI completed her studies at the Faculty of Law, obtaining her Master’s degree in Human Rights, Security and Development. Gabriela also participated in the legal clinic organised by the Faculty of Law and the NGO La Cimade, which provides legal aid to asylum seekers and migrants.

She also worked as an intern for the UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels, dealing with issues of freedom of expression, literary media information and protection of journalists. Gabriela has also been involved in projects funded by the European Union while at the UN agency.

Roman Zinigrad is a JSD Candidate (’20) at Yale Law School and a visiting fellow at the Sciences Po Law School. He has lectured at Sciences Po, the American University of Paris, and at Bar-Ilan University and was a visiting scholar at the UCL School of Laws.

His areas of research include Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory, Law and Education, and Law and Religion. He has published on the international right to education, on parental rights, and on constitutional law in Israel. He is currently interested in the correlation between children’s rights and environmental law, as well as in the impact of secondary legislation on constitutional norms.

He has earned his LLM degree at Yale Law School, and LLB and MA (Phil) degrees at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). He was member of the Drafting Committee of the “Abidjan Principles” (Guiding Principles on the Human Rights Obligations of States to Provide Public Education and to Regulate Private Involvement in Education) and is currently a clinical ellow at the Human Rights Clinic of the Sciences Po Law School, supervising projects on the international right to education and on environmental justice. He was previously awarded the Fox International Fellowship and the MacMillan International Dissertation Research Grant from Yale University, and has clerked with Honorable Justice Salim Joubran at the Israel Supreme Court.

Vivien studied in the Human Rights LLM program of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to that, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at ELTE in Budapest. She has acquired a strong foundation in the field of international human rights, which she has strengthened through participation in programs such as the Minorities Fellowship Programme of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2019 and the Legislative Fellows Program on Sustaining Civic Participation in Minority Communities in the USA. Vivien currently works for the European Roma Rights Centre as a Legal Director where she engages in strategic litigation to ensure that the ERRC is supporting Romani people to make cutting edge legal arguments in and out of court to achieve radical change across Europe in multiple thematic areas. Prior to joining the ERRC, Vivien worked at the Romaversitas Foundation, the Autonómia Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations. She joined the ERRC in 2016.

Course: Global Governance

Elisabetta Morlino is an Associate Professor of Administrative and Environmental Law at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples and holds the Italian Habilitation as Full professor. She has been Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice of the NYU School of Law and visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
She has been awarded the ICONS Book Prize 2020 by the International Society of Public Law for the book Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
She studied law in Italy and the United States. She holds an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the NYU School of Law as Hugo Grotius Scholar and a Ph.D. in Global Law from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (now Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa).
She is adjunct professor at the School of Law of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Lille Catholic University, and at the Academy of European Public Law of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) in Athens.
Prior to academia, she has worked for the United Nations. She has been legal officer at the UN-IFAD’s procurement division in Rome and extern at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in NY.
She authored books and articles in the field of global administrative law, international organizations, environmental protection, European and domestic public administrations.