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, Judge Constitutional Court of Romania

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