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Cyprien Fluzin

PhD Researcher in International Law
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Spoken languages
English, French
Areas of expertise
  • Public International Law
  • International human rights law
  • European Human Rights Law
  • International Refugee Law
  • International migration law
  • International humanitarian law
  • law of armed conflicts
  • Counterterrorism Law
  • National & global security
  • Use of force & law enforcement
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Europe
  • North America

PhD Thesis

 

Title: The participation of "foreigners fighters" in armed conflicts under International Law

PhD Supervisor: Vincent Chetail

PhD CO Supervisor: Andrew Clapham

Expected completion date: 2025

Cyprien Fluzin's doctoral research investigates the complex landscape of international legal issues arising from the participation of foreign nationals in armed conflicts, e.g. their legal “status” based on their level of involvement in conflict and/or terrorist groups, their detention, prosecution, repatriation, etc. His research has focused in particular on the Syrian, Iraqi, and Ukrainian cases.

 

Profile

 

A PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Cyprien Fluzin concurrently teaches international law and French law in Paris, France, at Sciences Po and Dauphine University-PSL. In the fall 2023 he serves as visiting lecturer in international law and global security at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, and as a visiting research fellow at the International Center on Counter-Terrorism in the Hague, Netherlands. He previously served as a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and as a Research Assistant at the Global Migration Centre.

Cyprien’s research interests include conflict, terrorism, displacement, and security broadly speaking. He also writes on democracy and has published opinion pieces in France and Switzerland in the Huffington Post, Le Temps, Le Nouvel Observateur, and Geneva Solutions.

At the Geneva Graduate Institute, Cyprien is a member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative, and serves as the Institute’s Contributing Editor to Princeton University’s Journal of Public and International Affairs. He is a rowing coach at the University of Geneva.

Prior to starting his PhD, Cyprien was a Fulbright and Arthur Sachs scholar at Harvard Law School, where he received an LLM degree and worked as a research assistant for Harvard’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. Cyprien previously worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva on protection issues related to the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts, as well as Guantanamo. He was an assistant to Mr Valencia-Ospina at the UN International Law Commission, and an intern at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Council of Europe.

Cyprien received his undergraduate law degree from the University of Strasbourg, in France, as part of which he also studied at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He holds a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute, as part of which he spent a semester at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

 

Research Interests

  • National & Global Security
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Human Rights
  • Use of force in hostilities and law enforcement
  • Climate change & displacement
  • Cybersecurity

 

Academic Work Experience

 

Teaching Experience

  • Adjunct lecturer, Sciences Po, Paris (France) - Since 2023
  • Visiting lecturer, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) - Fall 2023
  • Adjunct lecturer, Dauphine University-PSL, Paris (France) - Since 2022
  • Teaching assistant, Geneva Graduate Institute & Geneva Academy of International and Development Studies - 2020-2023


Research Experience

  • Visiting research fellow, International Center for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague (Netherlands) - Fall 2023
  • Research assistant, Global Migration Centre, Geneva - 2022-2023
  • Research assistant, Harvard Program on International and Armed Conflict - 2019-2020

 

Other Work Experience

 

  • Global protection affairs associate, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva (Switzerland) - 2018-2019
  • Intern, UN International Law Commission, UN Office of the High Commissionner for Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe - 2016-2018

 

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS

 

  • Facing the prospect of ‘mass exodus’, can international law adequately protect ‘climate refugees’ in the 21st century?” (Forthcoming, Ecology Law Quarterly, 2023)
  • Retraites : les petits arrangements avec l'esprit de la Ve République (Opinion)”, Huffington Post (May 2023)
  • Réforme des retraites en France : Emmanuel Macron et l'enlisement démocratique (Opinion)”, Le Temps (April 2023)
  • “Switzerland should agree to host Guantanamo detainees (Op-Ed)”, Geneva Solutions (February 2022)
  • “La Suisse devrait accueillir d’anciens détenus de Guantanamo (Opinion)”, Le Temps (February 2022)
  • “La condamnation de la France par la CEDH est un appel à prendre au plus vite nos responsabilités quant au sort de nos ressortissants détenus en Syrie (Opinion)”, Nouvel Obs (October 2022)
  • “France Called Out for Ignoring Plea to Repatriate Citizens in Syria”, Lawfare (October 2022) 
  • “What Is the Controversy on Repatriations From Syria About?”, Lawfare (October 2022)"

 

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

 

  • Fulbright Scholar 2019-2020

  • Arthur Sachs Scholar 2019-2020

 

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