Miriam Cohen

In the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that is currently attracting the world's attention, the Public Law Research Centre (University of Montreal – Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP)) and the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice are organising a round table on "The limits and challenges of international law in wartime".

Speakers

Stéphane Beaulac

Stéphane Beaulac is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at UdeM, where he teaches courses in international law and domestic public law. He holds a doctorate in international law from the University of Cambridge, where he also holds an LL.M. in comparative public law (first class honour). His training is bijural: civil law at the University of Ottawa (summa cum laude) and common law at Dalhousie University. He was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Neil MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, a James Flaherty Fellow at University College Cork, and a visiting professor in Toulouse, Amsterdam, Ulster, Trento and Padua.

Professor Beaulac has authored (co-authored) or co-edited some 20 law books and has written over 100 articles and other scholarly texts in law journals and with leading publishers, including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. He is one of the top 10% of authors on the SSRN (all-time downloads). He has received awards for his writing and has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and the International Court of Justice in The Hague. In addition to his numerous conferences at home and abroad, sometimes as a keynote speaker, Stéphane is certainly one of our most prominent public intellectuals at the Faculty (400+ speeches and interviews), even having his own YouTube channel.

A member of the Ontario Bar and a legal advisor to the Quebec Bar, Mr. Beaulac works occasionally in private practice with the Montreal law firm Dentons LLP in the Litigation Group.

 

Vladyslav Lanovoy

Vladyslav Lanovoy is an assistant professor of public international law at the Faculty of Law of Laval University. He is a generalist in public international law. He conducts research in the fields of the law of responsibility of States and international organizations, the peaceful settlement of international disputes, the law of the sea, international economic law and international human rights law. He is also a book review editor for the journal The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals.

 

Prior to joining Laval University, Professor Lanovoy served as Assistant Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice under Judge Mohamed Bennouna and two ad hoc judges. He has taught liability law and dispute settlement at the Catholic University of Lille and law of the sea at Queen Mary University of London, and was also a research and teaching assistant in WTO law at the University of Geneva. He obtained his PhD in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, under the supervision of Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy. His monograph "Complicity and its Limits in the Law of International Responsibility" (Oxford, Hart, 2016) received the 2017 Paul Guggenheim Prize, which is "awarded to a work in public international law, distinguished by its importance and quality". He is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, having worked in international arbitration at a leading firm in London and Paris, and at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He has considerable experience within the United Nations, including as a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Environment Programme. Born in Lviv, Ukraine, he is fluent in French and English, as well as Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German and Spanish.

 

Sophie Rondeau

Sophie Rondeau is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, holds a Master's degree in international law from the Université du Québec à Montréal, a doctorate in law (summa cum laude) from the Université Laval and the Université de Genève, and is a member of the Québec Bar. She has worked in the field of international justice, human rights and international humanitarian law with institutions such as the Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy), the Canadian Red Cross Society and the Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition. Her doctoral thesis, for which she was awarded a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) doctoral scholarship and a FRQSC (Fond de recherche du Québec - Société et culture) doctoral scholarship, focuses on the special characteristics of international humanitarian law in terms of sources.

 

Miriam Cohen

Miriam Cohen is the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Restorative Justice and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, where she teaches courses in public international law and international human rights law. She is also a research associate at the Public Law Research Centre (University of Montreal – Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP)), the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC)) and the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CÉRIUM).

Within the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal, she leads major research projects in the fields of international law and human rights. As Canada Research Chair, Professor Cohen leads a program that is based on two main axes: international justice and the redress of human rights violations (Axis 1); the relationship between human rights, new technologies and the empowerment of individuals and communities (Axis 2). She is also the founder of the International Justice and Fundamental Rights Laboratory, where she leads interdisciplinary research teams to create a technological platform specialised in the review and analysis of fundamental rights jurisprudence.

Prior to her academic career, Professor Cohen gained extensive experience in international organisations. She worked in the legal department at the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) and previously at the Appeals Chamber and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This content has been updated on 29 September 2022 at 23 h 17 min.