Master Droit International & Européen –
Droits de l’Homme, Sécurité & Développement /
Master Human Rights, Security and Development

Ioannis K. Panoussis est actuellement Doyen de la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Catholique de Lille (Lille/Paris) et délégué au développement international pour le compte de l’Université. Il co-dirige un Master en droit international et européen, spécialité « Droits de l’Homme, Sécurité, Développement ». Ses matières de spécialisation sont le droit international public, le droit international et européen des droits de l’Homme, le droit international humanitaire, le droit des réfugiés. Il a exercé des fonctions d’expert pour le compte du UNHCR (juge/assesseur UNHCR à la Cour nationale du droit d’asile) et pour le compte du ministère des affaires étrangères (mission de formation en Afghanistan de personnels impliqués dans la protection des droits de l’Homme au niveau des ministères, des organisations internationales et des ONG). Il intervient en tant qu’expert à l’Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) et à l’Institut d’Etudes Humanitaires Internationales d’Aix Marseille Université. Il est régulièrement invité dans plusieurs établissements prestigieux (Institut international des droits de l’Homme à Strasbourg, EDHEC, IESEG, IEP de Lille) et il a exercé la fonction d’évaluateur pour le Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique belge.

Valentina Volpe est Maître de conférences en droit international public et co-directrice du LL.M. en Droits de l’Homme, Sécurité, et Développement à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Catholique de Lille. Elle est également chercheuse principale affiliée et ancienne chercheuse principale à l’Institut Max Planck en Droit public comparé et en Droit International à Heidelberg, ainsi que professeure adjointe à SciencesPo Paris, à l’Université LUISS Guido Carli à Rome, et à l’Université de Los Andes à Bogota.

Valentina a effectué ses études de droit en Italie, en France et aux États-Unis. Elle est une ancienne chercheuse invitée à la Yale Law School et titulaire d’un doctorat summa cum laude en Droit et Théorie Juridique de l’Institut Italien des Sciences Humaines (SUM) (actuellement Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa).

Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur les domaines du droit public international et comparé, et plus spécifiquement sur la gouvernance globale, les acteurs non étatiques, la promotion de la démocratie et les droits de l’Homme.

Elle a également été professeure invitée à l’Université de Sciences Politiques et de Droit de Chine (CUPL) à Beijing, l’Université pour la paix (UPEACE) à San José, au Costa Rica, et à l’Université de Mannheim.

Avant de débuter sa carrière académique, Valentina a travaillé comme responsable de projet dans une ONG de base active dans les domaines de la coopération internationale et de la protection des droits de l’Homme.

Alessandro Bufalini is currently an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Tuscia University, Viterbo, where he was also a Research Fellow in International Law (2017-2019). Before joining the Tuscia University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2014-2016). He is coordinator of the Italian Academy of Law and Migration (Accademia di Diritto e Migrazioni – ADiM), an academic network which involves more than 300 scholars and promotes advanced research activities on migration. He is currently member of the Editorial Committee of QIL-Questions of International Law and acts as reviewer and referee for a number of academic journals.
He holds a degree in law (cum laude) from the University of Bologna and a PhD from the University of Macerata. Over the last years, he has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Amsterdam Center for International Law, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
He has published many articles and essays in collected volumes and peer-reviewed journals. His main research interests include international and EU migration law and policy, citizenship studies, the modes of liability and the principle of legality in international criminal law, the law of state responsibility, the use of force in international law and the relationship between peace and justice in the international legal order. He is the author of a book on the relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council (I rapporti tra la Corte penale internazionale e il Consiglio di sicurezza, Napoli, 2018). https://independent.academia.edu/AlessandroBufalini

Andra COTIGA est docteur en droit privé depuis 2010. L’intitulé de sa thèse est le suivant : « La concurrence institutionnelle dans l’Union Européenne : l’exemple du droit des sociétés ». Elle est professeur des universités catholiques depuis 2015, permanente de la Faculté depuis septembre 2010, directrice du Master 2 droit international et européen parcours droit des affaires et de la concurrence, co-directrice de l’International and European Law School (IELS), permanente de la Faculté et membre du C3RD. Elle enseigne les matières de droit international des sociétés et d’european contrat law. Ses domaines de recherches sont le droit commercial, le droit international privé et le droit européen et international des sociétés et de l’insolvabilité. Elle est membre du Global Legal Network (GLN) qui travaille sur les risques en droit européen.

Mail : andra.cotiga-raccah@univ-catholille.fr

Sarah Durelle-Marc is Associate professor at  the  the Lille Catholic University . She teaches about the Actors and parliamentary institutions in the European Union at IEP of Lille, and she is on of the head of the Law and Political Science Bachelor’s program at the  the  the Lille Catholic University. She is also a member of the DISE Chair – Law and best interests of the child ( the  the Lille Catholic University), a member of C3RD – Centre de recherche sur les relations entre le risque et le droit (FLD  the  the Lille Catholic University) and an associate Member of IODE – Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe, Faculté de Droit et de Science politique (University of Renne).

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

Among her research interests are Protection of children and European Law.

Her recent publications are : “L’enfant adopté simple: une situation fiscalement précaire en cas de décès de l’adoptant pendant la minorité de l’enfant”, “ La responsabilité du chef de l’État français au regard de son action européenne” , in Chr. GESLOT, P.-Y. MONJAL et J. ROSSETTO (dir), and “The international legal personality and the identity of the European Union”. see year and publisher

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr Carolyn Moser, Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (Germany), specializes on the Law and Governance of Peace and Security. In her current work, which she conducts in the context of her research group ‘Borderlines’, she seeks to unravel novel governance trends across different EU security policies and instruments.

Trained both 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 of the Max Planck Society.

Her peer-reviewed publications include a monograph with Oxford University Press on accountability in EU security and defence (forthcoming 2020), a co-edited book on the legal framework of the OSCE (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).

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

Angelina M. Petti is Legal Counsel at Segesser Law Offices in Zürich (Switzerland) and a Visiting Professor of International Commercial Arbitration at Lille Catholic University. Graduate from Loyola University in Maryland with a B.B.A. in Accounting (2003), she then received a J.D. with distinction from Hofstra University School of Law in 2006 and obtained an LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) from the Graduate Institute and Geneva University (2009). Before joining Von Segesser Law Offices, Angelina Petti was a Senior Associate at a leading 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, arbitrator and arbitral secretary in complex cross-border multi-jurisdictional arbitrations involving an array of commercial and investment matters, including disputes arising under large-scale engineering projects, manufacturing, delivery and sales agreements, shareholders agreements, and license and distribution contracts.

Chiara Macchi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at Wageningen University – Law Group and an associate member of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project Ph.D. 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 EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to carry out a two-year research project on business and human rights focusing on EU policies (2019–2021). Since 2012, she has conducted consultancies for governments, NGOs, companies, trade unions and lawyers on business and human rights-related issues, including supply chain human rights due diligence. Since 2020, she is co-chair of the Business and Human Rights working group of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and a member of the Business and Human Rights project of the European Law Institute. She is co-founder and co-director of the Summer School ‘Business and Human Rights’.

Aurélien RACCAH est docteur en droit public comparé depuis 2009. Son sujet de thèse est : « L’application directe du droit de l’Union européenne par les entités décentralisées. Approche comparative en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni et en France ». Il a obtenu son certificat d’Aptitute à la profession d’avocat en 2009 et excerce au cabinet ELEA (Paris).
Il est maître de conférences permanent à la faculté depuis 2009, assesseur au doyen en charge du développement international, responsable pédagogique de la licence européenne de droit, co-directeur de l’International and European Law School (IELS), responsable de la PrepAvocat et membre du C3RD.
Il enseigne en European Legal Proccedings, European Integration, en droit public allemand. Il encadre un séminaire de recherche en droit international et européen
Son domaine de recherche est le droit de l’Union Européenne.
Il est membre fondateur du Global Legal Network (GLN).

Mail : aurelien.raccah@univ-catholille.fr

Tel : 03.59.30.25.03

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.

Moritz Schmitt has been teaching the course on International Commercial Arbitration at the Université Catholique de Lille together with Ms Angelina Petti and Ms Eliane Fischer [insert links to profiles] since 2017. He is a Principal Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Dispute Resolution Group based in Frankfurt. Moritz works as counsel on international commercial arbitration matters with a particular focus on corporate disputes; sales, supply, and distribution contracts; as well as joint ventures. In addition, Moritz’ practice comprises complex corporate litigations before German courts.

Moritz completed his legal education at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden), and NYU School of Law (US). He has previously worked in Freshfields’ offices in Hamburg, Hong Kong, Paris, and Vienna. Moritz has also been on secondment with Airbus in Toulouse (France). He is recognized as a Future Leader in Arbitration by the Who is Who Legal 2019.

Lucas Sánchez is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where his work mainly focuses on International Human Rights Law and Latin American Constitutionalism. He currently coaches the Master 1 students for the Telders, an International Law Moot Court Competition held each year before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Former law student at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and the Heidelberg University in Germany, Lucas Sánchez additionally conducted numerous research stays, both at the European and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is currently writing a PhD thesis on Regional Human Rights Adjudication.

Nicola Sibona is a Case handler in Trade Defence investigations (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards) at the European Commission (DG TRADE). Prior to joining the European Commission, Mr. Sibona worked as a Lawyer in the field of International Trade Law in Brussels and in Rome. Nicola Sibona holds an LL.M. degree from the College of Europe (Bruges), with a specialisation in EU Law. He performed his undergraduate studies at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and at the of Maastricht (Netherlands).

Benedetta Barbisan is an Associate Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Macerata (Italy) and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (US). She has previously 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 PhD programme in Global Studies on Justice, Rights and Politics. Her current interests focus on human rights and judicial activism, as well as the constitutional implications of the ‘right to die’.

Author of numerous essays in scholarly journals and book chapters on Constitutional Law in comparative perspective, she has also written books on the origin of the judicial review in the U.S.  in 2008, on the dialogue between the Italian Constitutional Court, the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights in 2016 and on constitutionalism and the ‘right to die’ in 2019.

Founder of the Alberico Gentili Lectures, she has created the first lectureship in Comparative Constitutional Law in Italy, which includes internationally distinguished scholars and judges from supreme and constitutional courts from around the world.

Silvia Bartolini is a Post-doctoral Researcher at Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles and a visiting lecturer at the University of Kent. 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, where she worked for three years.
From 2013 to 2015, she was a visiting lecturer at King’s College London and was shortlisted for the KCL teaching excellence award for both years. From 2015 until 2018 she was a visiting lecturer at ESPOL where she taught EU Fundamental Rights and Freedom and EU Immigration and Asylum under EU law.  As from 2019 she is a visiting lecturer at University of Kent where she teaches EU Migration Law.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Catherine Denis is a Programme Manager in Reconciliation and Culture at the European Commission (DG NEAR) and a former lawyer specialised in International Criminal and Transitional Justice.

Catherine Denis holds a PhD on the UN Security Council’s normative powers from 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 Counsel at Avocats sans Frontières (ASF), where she provided for technical assistance in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice projects in various countries.

Prior to that, she served as Legal Officer at the Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004-2008) and at the UN Legal Affairs Office (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 in the Capacity-building of the judiciary (2017).

Delphine Dogot is an Associate Professor of Law and New Technologies at Lille Catholic University (Paris campus).

She holds a PhD in Law from Sciences Po Paris, and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, along with a Master’s Degree in Sociology and Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University.

She has moreover been a visiting researcher at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, an exchange doctoral researcher at the Harvard Law School and a researcher at the Perelman Centre of the Free University of Brussels.

Delphine Dogot has published numerous works in the fields of transnational legal theory, International Law, European and Global Law and has an extensive teaching experience in Global Law, International Law, Philosophy

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.

Anne-Claire Grandjean is an Associate Professor of Public Law at the Lille Catholic University. She holds a PhD on the protection of third parties in public procurement litigation, from University Lille II (2016) and now devotes her research to the equality and the protection of human rights from an internal and international point of view.

Since 2013, she is a Delegate of the Défenseur des Droits, where she defends the rights and freedoms of individuals in the context of relations with public authorities and promotes the best interest and rights of children in France.

She additionally is the founder of LORD OF LAW, a digital platform displaying a variety of law courses for students.

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.

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.

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.

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

She obtained a Law degree (2005) and a Master’s degree (2008) in Business Law from the West University of Timisoara (Romania) as well as a High Diploma in Comparative Law from the International Faculty of Comparative Law of Strasbourg, France (2007).

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

She has ever since extensive experience in Civil, Commercial and Criminal Law and has furthermore worked with NGOs, namely for the International Bar Association (2008), where she was involved in outreach and monitoring activities with the IBA-ICC (International Criminal Court) Programme in The Hague (the Netherlands).

Ana-Maria Telbis has also worked at the European Court of Human Rights (2007-2012), where she processed cases against Romania and was involved in other related activities such as conducting research and making presentations on the role of the Court.

She previously held the position of Director at the European Human Rights Association in Strasbourg (2012-2017), coordinating several capacity building and research programmes and carrying out numerous consultancies on human rights related issues. Her expertise extends to trial monitoring and reporting, within an OSCE project involvement.

She has a broad training experience, 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 professional experience she has published a variety of articles on the implementation of judgements of the EtCHR and on specific issues related to the protection of human rights, such as gender equality and freedom of expression.

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.

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.

Eliane Fischer is a Principal Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s offices in Vienna (Austria) and a Visiting Professor of International Commercial Arbitration at Lille Catholic University.
She specialises in dispute resolution and international arbitration with a particular focus on complex international construction and engineering disputes, 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’s degree) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (Master of International Affairs). Prior to joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, she worked as an associate at Schellenberg Wittmer’s Zurich office and as a case lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Armando Rocha is Professor of International Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Associate Dean of Católica Global School of Law. He is member of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law, where he has been conducting research in the fields of the law of the sea and climate change law. During his doctoral research, he was accepted as visiting scholar at the University of Glasgow and the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. He was also Visiting Professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School at the IDC Herzliya and the University of St. Joseph in Macao (China).

Aurélia Lamiroy est assistante doctorante en droit européen au sein de la Faculté de Droit de l’Université Catholique de Lille, en co-direction avec l’Université de Namur depuis octobre 2019. Elle est membre du Centre de recherche sur les relations entre le risque et le droit (C3RD) et du Centre de recherche information, droit et société de l’Université de Namur.

Sa thèse (co-dirigée par le doyen Panoussis, Faculté de Droit de l’Université Catholique de Lille, et le doyen Nihoul, Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Namur) porte sur la personne vulnérable au regard des Cours européennes. L’objectif de cette thèse est de comparer l’appréciation par la Cour européenne des Droits de l’Homme et par la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne des personnes désignées comme « vulnérables » et des effets juridiques de cette désignation sur les droits fondamentaux.

En parallèle, Aurélia assiste la coordination du Projet « Solidarité » de la Faculté de Droit, en mettant en place des permanences d’accès au Droit et en développant des évènements académiques sur des thèmes variés liés à la vulnérabilité. Elle est également coach pour le concours Cassin préparé par les étudiants de M2 Droits de l’Homme, Sécurité et Développement.

Guillaume Futhazar is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. His current research focuses on international law and biodiversity and the relationship between law and science. He holds a Ph.D from Aix-Marseille University and conducted his doctoral thesis under the supervision of a jurist (Sandrine Maljean Dubois) and an ecologist (Wolfgang Cramer).