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    Vincent Chetail
    Professor, International Law

    Voie-Creuse 16, CV 336

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    Office hours:

    Tuesdays, 17:15-18:30

    Position(s) at the Institute

    Professor, International Law

    Director, Programme for the Study of Global Migration

    Profile

    PhD Paris II Panthéon-Assas
    Faculty member since 2003, Professor Chetail is Director of the Programme for the Study of Global Migration. He is also a Board Member of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and, from 2004 to 2012, was the Research Director of the Geneva Academy.

    Professor Chetail is Editor-in-Chief of Refugee Survey Quarterly, member of the founding editorial board of Oxford Bibliographies in International Law and General Editor of the series Organisation internationale et relations internationales (Bruylant, Brussels).

    His main fields of research are related to public international law, human rights, migration and armed conflicts. He regularly serves as a consultant to governments, NGOs and international organisations and has been Visiting Professor at several universities (including the European University Institute – Florence in 2010, the Université libre de Bruxelles since 2008 and the University of Paris XI since 2006).
    Vincent Chetail’s papers are available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

    Areas of expertise

    His areas of research relate to refugee and migrant law, humanitarian law and human rights, international criminal law, and collective security and peace-keeping.

    Selected publications

    Books

    • Vattel’s International Law in a XXIst Century Perspective/Le droit international de Vattel vu du XXIè siècle (co-editor with P. Haggenmacher), Boston/Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011, 442 p.
    • Post-Conflict Peacebuilding – A Lexicon (editor), Oxford University Press, 2009, 387 p.
    • Mondialisation, migration et droits de l’homme : le droit international en question  / Globalisation, migration and human rights : international law under review (éditeur), Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007, 728 p.
    • Migration and International Legal Norms (co-editor with Alex Aleinikoff), T. M. C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2003, 353 p.

    Articles

    • « Tous les chemins ne mènent pas à Rome. La concurrence des procédures dans le contentieux international pénal à l'épreuve du principe de complémentarité », in: Y. Kerbrat (ed.), Forum Shopping et concurrence des procédures contentieuses internationales, Brussels: Bruylant, 2011, pp. 127-182.
    • « Vattel et la sémantique du droit des gens: une tentative de reconstruction critique », in : V. Chetail & P. Haggenmacher (eds.), Vattel’s International Law in a XXIst Century Perspective/Le droit international de Vattel vu du XXIè siècle, Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011, pp. 387434.
    • « Théorie et pratique de l’asile en droit international classique: étude sur les origines conceptuelles et normatives du droit international des réfugiés », Revue générale de droit international public, 2011, Tome 115, No. 3, pp. 625-652.
    • « The Human Rights Council and the Challenges of the United Nations System on Human Rights: Towards a Cultural Revolution? », in: L. Boisson de Chazournes & M. Kohen (eds.), International Law and the Quest for its Implementation. Liber Amicorum Prof. Vera Gowlland, Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 193241.
    • « Paradigm and Paradox of the Migration-Development Nexus: The New Border for North-South Dialogue », German Yearbook of International Law, 2008, Vol. 51, pp. 183-215.
    • « La banalité du mal de Dachau au Darfour : réflexion sur l’évolution du concept de génocide depuis 1945», Relations internationales, 2007, N° 131, pp. 49-72.
    • « Migration, droits de l’homme et souveraineté : le droit international dans tous ses Etats », in : V. Chetail (dir.), Mondialisation, migration et droits de l’homme : le droit international en question / Globalisation, migration and human rights : international law under review, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007, pp. 13-133.
    • « Le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture et l’expulsion des étrangers : dix ans de jurisprudence», Revue suisse de droit international et européen, 2006, n° 1, pp. 63-104.
    • « Le droit des réfugiés à l’épreuve des droits de l’homme : bilan de la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme sur l’interdiction du renvoi des étrangers menacés de torture et de traitements inhumains ou dégradants », Revue belge de droit international, 2004, Vol. 37, pp. 155-210.

    Fellowship and activities

    • Editor in-Chief of Refugee Survey Quarterly (Oxford University Press)
    • General Editor of the series “Organisation internationale et relations internationales” (Bruylant, Brussels).
    • Vice-president of the French-speaking Network of International Law
    • Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative (University of London)
    • Member of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe
    • Member of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg)