Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done

About me

IULIA ANTOANELLA MOTOC

Professor of Public International Law, University of Bucharest, Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Education

  • Ph.D(Doctorat)in Philosophy ( Moral Philosophy),
    University of Bucharest,Department of Philosophy
  • Habilitation in Law, University Paris XI, “Jean Monnet” Department
  • S.J..D. (Doctorat) in International Public Law
    University Aix-Marseille III, School of Law(tres bien avec les felicitations du jury)
  • LL.B, University of Bucharest, School of Law( 9,9″/10)

Experience with International Organizations

  • Member Human Rights Committee( 2006-present)
  • Member of the Bureau of the Human Rights Committee( 2008 - present)
  • UN Special Rapporteur on Human on Human Genome and Human Rights( 2004 - present)
  • Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission for Human Rights for the Democratic
  • Republic of Congo( 2001- 2004)
  • President, Working Group on Administration of Justice, United Nations, ( 2002-present)
  • President of the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, United Nations(2000-2001)
  • Member, UN Working Group on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights ( 2003- present)
  • Member of the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, United Nations(2000-present)
  • Alternate Member, Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (1996-2000)
  • Member, Working Group for Indigenous Peoples , United Nations (2000-2004)
  • Member, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, United Nations (1999-2000) 2003)
  • Member Social Forum, United Nations( 2005)
  • Member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Comparative Law(1998-2004) , (2008-present)
  • Arbitrer ICSID, Washington ( 2008-present)

Visiting Professor/ Researcher

  • University Paris XI, (1996, 1997, 1998) – Tempus program
  • University St-Thomas Miami( 2001, 2002, 2003)-Master Intercultural Human Rights, Course’’ United Nations and Human Rights’’, member of the Faculty
  • University of Michigan ( 1998), USAID
  • Catholic University of Milan,( 1997), TEMPUS
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles,( 1998) AUPELF
  • Institute for Human Sciences, Wien (1999)
  • New York University School of Law (2003-2004) Fulbright Scholar’’ International law and Democracy’’ ( co-teaching with JHH Weiler), “Theory and History of International Law’’ (intervenant with B. Kingsbury)
  • Yale University School of Law (2004 2007) - Senior Schell Fellow
  • European Institute Florence(2006)- Special Invited Professor Academy of European Law
  • European Master in Human Rights, Venice (2007)- Professor invited in the course ’Human Rights and Security’’
  • Bucharest Diplomatic Academy ( 2002-2003) Scientific director teaching International law ( 2007-2008), Visiting Professor, International law
  • Director,( Romania),European Master of Human Rights and Democratization, European Intrerdisciplinary Center for Human Rights and Democratization, , Venice
  • Member, Board of the European Society of International law( 2004-2008)
  • Member, Scientific Board, Revue Quebecoise de droit international
  • Member, Scientific Board,College of Europe, TMC Asser Instiute of International Law, Netherlands
  • Member, International Board of Scholars and Practitioners, School of Law, University of Melbourne
  • Member International Scientific Board,Journal of International Relations and Development
  • Member International Law Association- Working Group Biotechnologies and International Law
  • Co-Editor (International Law and International Relations), Polis, (1996-1999)
  • Member, Editorial Board, East European and Russian Yearbook of International and Member Scientific Board, European Yearbook of Human Rights

Teaching Experience

  • Public International Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Jurisprudence
  • European Law

NGO experience

  • Member, Commission Internationale des Juristes
  • President, Association Prix Femmes d’Europe,Romania( 2000-2002)
  • Lectures for Amnesty International, FIDH, ATD-Quart Monde, CONGO, Institute for Non-Alignenemnt Studies

Books

You will find the list of my published books here

Studies

  • The International law of genetic discrimination in T.Murphy(ed) New Technologies and Human Rights, Oxford University Press,2009
  • Conceptions of pluralism and international law in E. Jouannet, H.R. Fabri,V. Tomkiewitz Proceedings of the ESIL A quoi ca sert le droit international, Hart, Oxford, 2008.
  • Les rapporteurs speciaux etatiques de l’ONU en E. Decaux Les Nations Unies et les droits de l’homme, Pedone, Paris , 2006 pp. 223-243.
  • The Responsability of State and the Individual: Controversial aspects of the right to democracy, Thesaurus Acroasium, Thessaloniki, 2006
  • Taking Democracy Seriously: The Normative Challenges to the International Legal System in S.Griller(eds) International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns, Springer Vienna-New York, 2003( co-author).
  • Governacao sem Governo: O Desafio Normativo do Direito Internacional (coauthor) in A.Stone Sweet et al( ed) Cidadania e Novos Poderes numa Sociedade Global, Calouste Gulbekian, Lisbon, 2000, pp.19-39.
  • L’Europe Unie et l’ Europe d’après le communisme: rationalité et éthique de l’élargissement, in E.Barnavi, Les frontières de l ’Europe, Ed. de Bloeck, Wesmael, Bruxelles, 2001
  • Women and Legal Justice: the European Context in Women and the Administration of Justice, Tokyo, 2001.
  • Europe and its teleology. Is there a Central-Eastern Vison? in C. Jorges, Y. Meny, J.H.H.Weiler(eds), What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity, Responses to J. Fischer, European Institute Florence, Harvard School of Law, 2000.
  • Les critères politiques dans le Parteneriat avec les Pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale in M.F. Labouz(eds), Le Parteneriat de l’Union Européenne avec les EtatsTiers, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2000.
  • La prévention et la répression du génocide et la conception sur la justice: le droit international entre lege ferenda et utopie” in, K.Bustany, D. Dormoy (eds), Génocide(s), Ed.Bruylant, Bruxelles, 1999.
  • “Ne diritto ne potere, overe quando il semipresidenzialisme passa all`Est”(co-author) in A. Giovannelli(ed)Il semipresidentialismo: dall`arcipelago europeo al dibattito italiano, Gianpichelli, Turin, 1999.
  • “ De ce intelectualul est- european îl prefera pe Hayek lui Aron?(The Raymond Aron`s legacy in Eastern Europe in R.Aron, Un spectator angajat (Le Spectateur engagé) (commented ed),Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999
  • “Rule of Law and Moral Law in International Relations: Common Sense, Political Realism, Scepticism” in R. Gerin, P. Jedlikova(eds) A Decade of Transformation, IWM, Wien, 1999.
  • “Manifestul Partidului Comunist, Totalitarismul , Statul de drept posttotalitar, trei fete ale refuzului modernitatii politice”(The Manifesto of the Communist Party,Totalitarism and Post-Totalitarian Rule of Law- Three Dimensions of Political Modernity Rejection) in Karl Marx, F. Engels, Manifestul Partidului Comunist (Manifesto of the Communist Party) (commented Ed), Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998
  • “Karl Popper si raspunderea intelectualilor în postcomunism’’(Karl Popper and the intellectuals responsablity in post-Communism ) in K. Popper, Lectia acestui secol,( La lezzione di questo siecolo), (commented Ed) Bucharest, Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998
  • “De l`histoire des mentalités aux études politiques: l`histoire de la rencontre” in Pouvoir et mentalités, Mélanges en honneur d`Alexandru Dutu, Babel Publishing House, 1999

Articles

  • “Crearea unui Tribunal International pentru fosta Iugoslavie”(The Creation of an International Criminal Court for Former Yugoslavia), Revista romana de drept umanitar,(Romanian Review of Humanitarian Law), 1/1995
  • “Independenta si impartialitatea justitiei în Conventia Europeana a Drepturilor Omului”(The independence and the impartiality of justice in the European Convention of Human Rights), Revista Romana de Drepturile Omului (Romanian Human Rights Review),
    10/1995
  • “NATO:alianta sau concert de natiuni?”( NATO: alliance or concert of nations?) Sfera Politicii, 40/1996
  • ” Recomandarea 1201 si interpretarile ei”( The 1201 Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly recommendation on minorities issues and its interpretations), Sfera Politicii, 41/1996
  • ” Raidurile in Irak si hegemonismul american “(The US airstrikes in Iraq and the US foreign policy), Sfera Politicii, 42/1996
  • ” Ce pot liberalii?”(What about the liberals?), Sfera Politicii, 45/1996
  • “Le pouvoir interpretatif du Conseil de sécurité”, Revue Roumaine de Sciences Juridiques, 1/1996
  • ” Sofism si drept international”(Sophism and International Law), Polis, 2/1996
  • ” Politica externa a Romaniei fata de NATO”(The Romanian Foreign Policy towards NATO), Polis, 1/1997
  • ” Disputa liberalilor: cîteva consideratii asupra analizei filosofice a relatiilor internationale”(The Liberal Dispute - A few remarks on the philosophical analysis of International Relations), Polis, 3/1997
  • “ Stiinta politica si politica :Wertfreiheit si Genealogie‘’( Political Science and Politics: Wertfreiheit and Genealogy), Polis, 4/1997
  • European Tradition and European Society of International: some remarks about the totalitarian legacy, Baltic yearbook of International Law (2006)
  • Human Genetics and Human Rights: a View of a Special Rapporteur, East-European and Russsian Yearbook of International law (2007)
  • Drepturile omului si genetica, Noua revista de drepturile omului, 4/2007

Research projects

  • Pluralism and legitimacy of international law
  • International law during the socialism ( with Emmanuelle Jouannet) to be published by CEDIN Sorbonne, 2009

Languages

  • Romanian native speaker
  • French fluent
  • English fluent
  • Spanish intermediate level
  • German basic knowledge
  • Russian basic knowledge