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Droit international
Profil
PhD, University of Milan
Faculty member since 2002, Professor Bianchi was previously Full Professor at the Catholic University, Milan, and Associate Professor at the University of Parma. Until 2001, he was also Professorial Lecturer in International Law at the Bologna Centre of the Johns Hopkins University. His publications address topics that range from international human rights, international economic law, the law of jurisdiction and jurisdictional immunities to international environmental law, state responsibility and the law of treaties. He is currently focusing on international law and terrorism, as well as international law and non-state actors. His published works include: Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge (2008), Il principio precauzionale nel diritto internazionale e comunitario (2007) and Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism (2004).
Domaines d'expertise
Droit international et terrorisme ; Droit international et acteurs non-étatiques ; Droits de l'homme et jus cogens
Publications séléctionnées
a) Ouvrages:
1) Non-State-Actors and International Law, Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2009 (forthcoming, ISBN: 0 7546 2833 7). Individual Contribution: ‘Relativizing the Subjects or Subjectivizing the Actors? That is the Question.’
2) Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge, Oxford, 2008 (Co-edited with Professor Alexis Keller). Individual Contribution on: ‘International Law, Counter-terrorism and the Quest for Checks and Balances’, pp. 395-424
3) The Precautionary Principle in International and Community Law (in Italian: "Il principio precauzionale nel diritto internazionale e comunitario")(Editor together with Prof. M. Gestri, and contributor), Milan, pp. IX-544 (2006). Individual contribution:’Principi di diritto, modularità funzionale e relatività normativa: il concetto di precauzione nel diritto internazionale’ (Principles of Law, Functional Modularity and Relative Normativity: the Concept of Precaution in International Law), pp. 429-459.
4) Enforcing International Law Norms against Terrrorism, (Editor and contributor), Oxford, pp.VII-549 (2004). Individual contribution: ‘Enforcing International Law Norms against Terrorism: Achievements and Prospects’, pp. 491-534.
b) Articles récents et contributions:
1) “State Responsibility and Criminal Liability of Individuals”, in A. Cassese (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press, 16-24 (2009).
2) “Looking ahead: international law’s main challenges”, in D. Armstrong (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Law, Routledge, 392-409 (2009).
3) “Developing Countries, Countermeasures and WTO Law: Reinterpreting the DSU against the Background of International Law" (Co-authored with Lorenzo Gradoni), ICTSD Project on Dispute Settlement, Series Issue Paper No. 5, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-70 (2008).
4) “Human Rights and the Magic of Jus Cogens” 19 European Journal of International Law, 491-508 (2008).
5) “Une generation de communautaristes”, in E. Jouannet, H. Ruiz-Fabri, J-M. Sorel (Eds.), Regards d’une generation sur le droit international, Paris,Pedone, 95-107 (2008).
6) “Security Council’s Anti-terror resolutions and their Implementation by Member States: an Overview”, 4 Journal of International Criminal Justice, 1044-1073 (2006).
7) “Assessing the Effectiveness of the UN Security Council’s Anti-terrorism Measures: the Quest for Legitimacy and Cohesion”, 17 European Journal of International Law, 880-919 (2006).
Autres activités
Professor Bianchi is the Co-Director of University Forum (2005-2008) of the Academic Society of Geneva, organised jointly by the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva and HEI on the theme Democracy and Terrorism
Activités scientifiques:
- Tbilisi (Géorgie) 31 octobre-4 Novembre 2008, "International Human Rights", Programme de formation pour les représentants gouvernementaux, parrainé par la Direction du Développement et de la Coopération, Département Fédéral des Affaires Etrangères (Suisse)
- Varsovie, 6 juillet 2008,"International Humanitarian Law and the War on Terror", CICR, 26ème cours de droit international humanitaire, Varsovie.
- Genève, 23 juin 2008, "Fear's Legal Dimension: Counterterrorism and Human Rights", Programme d'été international affairs and multilateral governance, IHEID
- Genève, 26 mai 2008, "International Law-Making and ‘International Law and Terrorism", IHEID (Diplomatic Program) et GCSP.
- Zürich, 21-22 janvier 2008, participation au premier séminaire sur "International Process on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation" organisé par le Département Fédéral des Affaires Etrangères
- Washington, 11-12 janvier 2008, "US Courts and International Law: an Impertinent Look from Outside", ASIL/ESIL Joint Leadership Retreat.
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