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Professeur, Droit international

Profil

LLM University of London
Professor Doswald-Beck was appointed a Professor of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in 2003. She is a member of the Directorate of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, created in September 2007.
Professor Doswald-Beck was formerly the Director of the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (CUDIH), from 2003-2007, and was Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists (2001-2003). She was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1987 and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. She began her career as a lecturer in Law at Exeter university and then London University.

During the 1990s, Louise Doswald-Beck played an important role in the campaign to establish the International Criminal Court (ICC) and participated in the negotiations on the Rome Statute. In particular, she had a major role in negotiations that led to the establishment of: the ICC’s Elements of Crimes, Protocols II (amended) and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, Protocol II of the Hague Convention on Cultural Property, and the San Remo Manual on armed conflicts at sea.

Professor Doswald-Beck has written extensively on subjects relating to the use of force, and humanitarian law and human rights law, including the ICRC’s study on customary international humanitarian law (2005) for which she was awarded the Ciardi Prize at the time of the XVIIth Congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, in 2006.

Domaines d'expertise

• Children (Child combatants)
• Human rights
• International humanitarian law
• International law (public, private)

Professor Doswald-Beck's research emphasis has been on the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Publications sélectionnées

Books

• Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism, OUP, 2011
• Customary International Humanitarian Law, Vol I: Rules, co-authored with Jean-Marie, Henckearts CUP 2005, 621pp; Vol.II: Practice, co-edited with Jean-Marie Henckaerts, CUP, 411pp, 2005.
• Garanties judiciaries et droits de l’homme, Nations Unies, Systèmes européen, américan et African: textes et resumés de la jurisprudence internationale; co-authored with Robert Kolb, Engel, 468pp, 2004.
• Judicial Process and Human Rights: United Nations, European, American and African systems: texts and summaries of international case-law, co-authored with Robert Kolb, Engel, 465pp, 2004.
• Commentary to the Elements of War Crimes under the ICC Statute, (co-authored with K. Doermann and Robert Kolb), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
• San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (edited and partly authored text and Commentary), Cambridge University Press,1995.
• Blinding Weapons: Report of the Meeting of Experts Convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Battlefield Laser Weapons, International Committee of the Red Cross, 1993.

Selected Articles

• ‘The right to life in armed conflict: does international humanitarian law provide all the answers?’ International Review of the Red Cross, Vol.88, No. 864, December 2006.
• ‘Private Military Companies under International Humanitarian Law’: Chapter 7 in From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies, Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt (eds.), OUP, (2007).
• ‘Developments in Customary International Humanitarian Law’, Swiss Review for International and European Law, 3/2005, pp.471-498, 2005.
• ‘Human rights and humanitarian law: are some individuals bereft of all legal protection?’ ASIL Proc.2004 , pp. 353-358, 2004.
• ‘The Protection of Medical Aircraft in International Law', in Israel Yearbook on Human Rights vol. 27, 1998.
• ‘International Humanitarian Law and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons', in International Review of the Red Cross, January/February, 1997.
• 'Vessels, Aircraft and Persons Entitled to Protection during Armed Conflicts at Sea', British Yearbook of International Law, 1994.

Autres activités

• Member of the International Commission of Jurists
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Lieber Society
• Member of the Human Rights Interest Group of the American Society of international Law

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