LL.M. in International & European Law
Human Rights, Security & Development

Ioannis K. PANOUSSIS is currently 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 Senior Lecturer in Public International Law and co-director of the LL.M. in Human Rights, Security and Development at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille. She is also an affiliated senior researcher and former senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, as well as an adjunct professor at SciencesPo Paris, the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, and the University of Los Andes in Bogota.

Valentina studied law in Italy, France and the United States. She is a former visiting scholar at Yale Law School and holds a doctorate summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Humanities (SUM) (currently Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa).

Her research interests are in the fields of international and comparative public law, with a focus on global governance, non-state actors, democracy promotion and human rights.

She has also been a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the University for Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of Mannheim in Germany.

Before starting her academic career, Valentina worked as a project manager in an NGO active in the fields of 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.

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.

Andra COTIGA is a doctor in private law since 2010. The title of her thesis is: “Institutional competition in the European Union: the example of company law”. She is a professor of Catholic universities since 2015, permanent member of the Faculty since September 2010, director of the Master 2 in International and European Law, co-director of the International and European Law School (IELS), permanent member of the Faculty and member of the C3RD. She teaches international corporate law and European contract law. Her areas of research are commercial law, private international law and European and international company and insolvency law. She is a member of the Global Legal Network (GLN) which works on risks in European law.

Courses: Private International Law

Mail: andra.cotiga@univ-catholille.fr

Sarah DURELLE-MARC is an Associate Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille. She teaches on “Actors and Parliamentary Institutions of the European Union” at the IEP of Lille and is responsible for the Law and Political Science Degree at the Université Catholique de Lille. She is also a member of the DISE Chair – Droit et intérêt supérieur de l’enfant, a member of C3RD (Centre de recherche sur les relations entre le risque et le droit) and an associate member of IODE – Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe, Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique (Université de Rennes).

She holds a doctorate in European law with honours (2011) and an LL.M in European law (1999) from the University of Rennes.

Her research interests include child protection and European law.

Her recent publications are : “The simple adopted child: a fiscally precarious situation in the event of the death of the adopter during the child’s minority”, “The responsibility of the French Head of State with regard to his European action”, in Chr. GESLOT, P.-Y. MONJAL and J. ROSSETTO (eds.), and “International legal personality and the identity of the European Union”.

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.

Course: Legal Architecture of the International System

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.

Course: UN Law and Practice

Maurice Kamga is Secretary of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (Netherlands). Proficient diplomat (Minister Plenipotentiary) and accomplished academic, Maurice Kamga has extensive experience in the practice and teaching of International Law, particularly in International Justice. He has been Legal Adviser for the Cameroonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has had a 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. Maurice Kamga has successively studied at the University of Yaounde (Graduate Degree), at the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon (PhD in International Relations, diplomacy option), at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (PhD in International Relations, International Law option) and Paris Nanterre University (Accreditation to direct research in the legal sciences). Besides professing at Lille Catholic University, he is also a Visiting Professor in several other universities and institutes, including the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon.

Iga Kurowska, PhD, acts as Head of Innovation and Legaltech at a leading corporate Spanish law firm Aktion Legal. She is also a Founder of independent educational platform Legaltech Academy. Former French lawyer; visiting professor of Sorbonne Law School and a contributor to a number of legaltech courses all over Europe. Iga participates frequently in conferences and publications and is an active member of legal technology initiatives in France, Poland and Spain, such as Global Legaltech Consortium. She is a co-chair of the AIJA Legaltech board.

Course: International and EU environmental Law

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.

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.

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).

Course: International Humanitarian Law

Marco ODELLO is a 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

Ioannis K. PANOUSSIS is currently 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.

Course: International Arbitration

Angelina M. Petti is a legal advisor at Segesser Law Offices in Zurich (Switzerland) and a visiting professor of international commercial arbitration at the Université Catholique de Lille. She graduated from Loyola University Maryland with a B.B.A. (Bachelor in Business Administration) in accounting (2003), she then obtained a J.D. (Juris Doctor) with distinction from Hofstra University School of Law in 2006 and a Master in International Dispute Resolution (MIDS) from the Graduate Institute and University of Geneva (2009).

Before joining Von Segesser Law Offices, Angelina Petti was a Senior Associate at a major Swiss law firm, where she was a member of the firm’s dispute resolution practice groups in Geneva and Zurich from 2009 to 2018. Angelina M. Petti currently acts as counsel and arbitration secretary in complex, multi-jurisdictional cross-border arbitrations involving a wide range of commercial and investment matters, including disputes arising out of large-scale engineering projects, manufacturing, delivery and sales contracts, shareholders’ agreements and licensing and distribution agreements.

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: International Law Philosophy

Yannick Radi is a Professor of Public International Law at the Catholic University of Louvain. He holds a PhD in International Law and an LL.M. from the European University Institute as well as an LL.M. from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. His areas of expertise include International Arbitration, International Investment Law, global economic governance, sustainable development, Business and Human Rights as well as International Legal Theories. Yannick Radi is the author of several publications, notably of a forthcoming textbook on International Investment Law and Arbitration which will be published by Cambridge University Press. Editor-in-Chief of the Brill Research Perspectives in International Legal Theory and Practice, he is moreover a member of various International scientific committees and research projects, notably the International Committee of the International Law Association on the ‘Rule of Law and International Investment Law.

Course: Global Governance

Armando Rocha is Professor of International Law at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Vice-Dean of the Católica Global School of Law in Lisbon. 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. 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.

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.

Patrick Schneider is a dually qualified lawyer (Germany / England & Wales) with extensive experience in international organizations. He currently works as a freelance consultant with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (Heidelberg / Germany).
Patrick studied law in Freiburg (Germany) and Arabic language as a post-graduate scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service at Damascus University and the Institut français d’études arabes de Damas in Syria. He held junior and senior positions in major international organizations (EU, OSCE, UN) as well as in NGOs.
Patrick’s main experience includes human rights & international humanitarian law, investigating acts of terrorism and war crimes; rule of law and judicial, institutional, and security sector reform; constitution drafting and advising; legal drafting of legislation in the field of anti-corruption, transitional justice, elections, local governance; legal advice and supervising the implementation of pre-war property return; legal training for military officers, judges, prosecutors, and lawyers; transitional justice & reconciliation; conflict mediation (certified mediator); sanction regimes and related investigations; political advice in complex conflict settings; election monitoring; criminal and criminal procedure law as junior lawyer and prosecutor as well as extensive project management experience.
His geographical experience (including long-term assignments) includes Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chad, Egypt, Iraq incl. Kurdistan, Israel & Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Macedonia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia.

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).

Valentina Volpe is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law and co-director of the LL.M. in Human Rights, Security and Development at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille. She is also an affiliated senior researcher and former senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, as well as an adjunct professor at SciencesPo Paris, the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, and the University of Los Andes in Bogota.

Valentina studied law in Italy, France and the United States. She is a former visiting scholar at Yale Law School and holds a doctorate summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Humanities (SUM) (currently Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa).

Her research interests are in the fields of international and comparative public law, with a focus on global governance, non-state actors, democracy promotion and human rights.

She has also been a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the University for Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of Mannheim in Germany.

Before starting her academic career, Valentina worked as a project manager in an NGO active in the fields of international cooperation and human rights protection.

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.

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.

Course: Business Law and Human Rights

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.

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: Foreigners’ litigation

Oriane Cabaret is a Lawyer at the Bar of Lille since November 2015. She currently is a freelance collaborator at Lille Legal Law firm since 2019, where she specialises in Foreigners’ Law, more precisely in litigation involving residence permits, asylum, nationality and administrative detention.

She also is a Visiting Professor of Litigation of Foreigners’ Law at Lille Catholic University and additionally trains future lawyers at IXAD, Ecole des avocats Nord-Ouest, in Lille.

Course: Situation of people in armed conflict

Jérôme DE HEMPTINNE is a Lecturer of International Humanitarian Law at the Catholic University of Louvain. Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, he currently coordinates a research project, financed by the Swiss National Fund, on the protection of animals in armed conflicts. He moreover worked for more than a decade at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and served both at the Office of the UN Legal Counsel in New York and at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
He additionally drafted the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Criminal Court in Central African Republic (CAR), which were adopted by the CAR Parliament in June 2018.
Member of the editorial committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, he is the co-author of the book Droit international humanitaire. Thèmes choisis (Paris, Pedone, 2012) with Jean d’Aspremont.

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).

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 Digital Tech Winter & Summer Schools and University Degree on 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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Course: International Criminal Law Litigation with Catherine Denis

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.

Course: Geopolitics and Human Rights

Kalliopi KYRIAKOPOULOU is an Associate Professor of International Politics and Security at the International Study Centre of Queen’s University of Eastbourne (United Kingdom) and additionally teaches International Relations at Lille Catholic University and at Richmond, the American International University in London.

She holds a PhD in Politics and Government from the University of Kent, along with a MA in European Politics and Democracy Studies, a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Kent and a Ptychion in Philosophy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Her current research interests focus on the political and social dimensions of the European project, and the complexities regarding the course of European Integration, more specifically on how the Brexit crisis relates to the emergence of new and old ideological trends in both European and International Politics.

She furthermore examines the political dimensions of new technologies and their impact on both state’s and citizens’ behaviour. She more particularly focuses on issues relating to the participation, rights, control and electoral behaviour within the framework of the surveillance of citizens and data collection activities.

Course: Participation in an International Moot court in International Human Rights

Aurélia Lamiroy is a doctoral assistant in European law at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille, in co-direction with the University of Namur since October 2019. She is a member of the Centre de recherche sur les relations entre le risque et le droit (C3RD) and the Centre de recherche information, droit et société of the University of Namur.

Her thesis (co-supervised by Dean Panoussis, Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille, and Dean Nihoul, Faculty of Law of the University of Namur) focuses on the vulnerable person in the European Courts. The objective of this thesis is to compare the appreciation by the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union of persons designated as “vulnerable” and the legal effects of this designation on fundamental rights.

In parallel, Aurélia assists the coordination of the “Solidarity” Project of the Faculty of Law, by setting up permanent access to the Law and by developing academic events on various themes related to vulnerability. She is also a coach for the Cassin competition prepared by M2 Human Rights, Security and Development students.

Lille Campus

Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille (Faculty of Law). She was previously a researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military Academy (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, in charge of sub-Saharan Africa.  She teaches at Sciences Po Paris (Reims campus, Eurafrique programme) and is also an associate researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique Hannah Arendt (LIPHA) – Université Paris-Est. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for War and Strategy Studies and co-leader of the “Comparative Extra-Western Approaches” group.

In 2017, she coordinated a book “Is our world more dangerous?” (Armand Colin) gathering about twenty contributions. A specialist in security studies, her work focuses on peace and security issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa, foreign policies and strategies of small states. In March 2020, she published the book “Djibouti: la diplomatie de géant d’un petit Etat” (Presses universitaires du Septentrion). She has published in International Affairs, International Studies, Contemporary Africa, etc.

She runs the blog “https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjfrJm–_brAhVDJBoKHTcrB_0QFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodmorningafrika.blogspot.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw2iksinTDC1KRLuyZXHIr7B”>Good Morning Afrika” and hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.

Course: Discriminations

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: Business Law and Human Rights

Chiara MACCHI is a researcher at Wageningen University – Law Group and an associate member of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project; she holds a doctorate in international law from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies with a thesis on the protection of human rights in the supply chains of transnational corporations.

In 2019, she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship funded by the EU to conduct a two-year policy-oriented research project on business and human rights (2019-2021). Since 2012, she has consulted for governments, NGOs, businesses, trade unions and lawyers on business and human rights issues, including human rights due diligence in the supply chain.

Since 2020, she is co-chair of the working group on “Business and Human Rights” of the Dutch Human Rights Research Network and member of the project on “Business and Human Rights” of the European Law Institute. She is co-founder and co-director of the Business and Human Rights Summer School.

Course: Participation in an International Moot court in International Human Rights

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.

Course: Participation in an International Moot court in International Human Rights

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.

Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus
Mail: xavier.pacreau@univ-catholille.fr

Ioannis K. PANOUSSIS is currently 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.

Course: International Criminal Law

Dr Chiara REDAELLI is a research fellow at the Geneva Academy, where she works on the projects “Rule of Law in Armed Conflict” (RULAC) and “Disruptive Military Technologies”.

Her areas of expertise include international humanitarian law, jus ad bellum and international human rights law.

In 2019, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School in the USA, for a project on peace and aggression in international law. She also worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and Beijing, China.

Chiara defended her doctorate (summa cum laude) in public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in September 2018. Her research focused on how the human rights paradigm has affected the international legal regulation of interventions in non-international armed conflicts.

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.

Course: Fight Against Terrorism and Rule of Law

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.

Valentina Volpe is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law and co-director of the LL.M. in Human Rights, Security and Development at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille. She is also an affiliated senior researcher and former senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, as well as an adjunct professor at SciencesPo Paris, the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, and the University of Los Andes in Bogota.

Valentina studied law in Italy, France and the United States. She is a former visiting scholar at Yale Law School and holds a doctorate summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Humanities (SUM) (currently Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa).

Her research interests are in the fields of international and comparative public law, with a focus on global governance, non-state actors, democracy promotion and human rights.

She has also been a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the University for Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica, and the University of Mannheim in Germany.

Before starting her academic career, Valentina worked as a project manager in an NGO active in the fields of international cooperation and human rights protection.

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.