Cecilia Bailliet

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Cecilia Bailliet
Born (1969-04-24) 24 April 1969 (age 55)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Norwegian
Education George Washington University Law School and the Elliott School of International Affairs
OccupationProfessor of Law
Employer University of Oslo
Known for United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity
Predecessor Obiora Chinedu Okafor

Cecilia M. Bailliet (born 24 April 1969) is a Norwegian professor of law who became the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in 2023.

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Life

Bailliet was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires. She graduated from George Washington University Law School and the Elliott School of International Affairs, both in the United States, with a graduate and master's degree. [1]

Bailliet 2003 doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo [1] was titled Between Conflict & Consensus: Conciliating Land Disputes in Guatemala. [2]

Bailliet is a professor of law at Oslo University where she leads the masters programme in Public International Law. [3]

In 2015 she published a paper about GQUAL which is a campaign to highlight the huge gender disparity among appointments to international tribunals and monitoring bodies. The campaign was highlighted by Viviana Krsticevic who noticed this disparity after she was appointed to lead the Center for Justice and International Law  [ de ] as its executive director. The European Court of Human Rights has over 90% male judges and over 96% of the judges of the International Court of Justice are male. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea's judges are 97.5% male. [4]

Bailliet created the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace in 2020. [5]

In January 2022 Bailliet became the Chair the Expert Advisory Group set up to support, Obiora Okafor, who was then the UN's Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity. [6] She created the Research Handbook on International Solidarity [6] which was published in 2024. [7] Bailliet succeeded Obiora Okafor to become the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in October 2023 after she was chosen by the United Nations' Human Rights Council. [8]

Publications include

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Launch of GQUAL! – A Global Campaign for Gender Parity in International Tribunals and Monitoring Bodies". EJIL: Talk!. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 Bailliet, Cecilia; Aas, Katja Franko (April 2011). Cosmopolitan Justice and Its Discontents. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-136-74138-8.
  3. "Cecilia M. Bailliet | Kellogg Institute For International Studies". kellogg.nd.edu. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  4. Bailliet, Cecilia M. (8 October 2015). "Launch of GQUAL! – A Global Campaign for Gender Parity in International Tribunals and Monitoring Bodies". EJIL: Talk!. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  5. Bailliet, Cecilia (9 April 2020). Research Handbook on International Law and Peace. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN   978-1-83910-937-9.
  6. 1 2 "Cecilia Bailliet chairs UN Advisory Group". University of Oslo. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  7. Bailliet, Cecilia M. (12 April 2024). Research Handbook on International Solidarity and the Law. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN   978-1-80392-375-8.
  8. Editor, Nordic (19 April 2024). "Denmark and Greenland: UN expert calls for social cohesion and international solidarity". United Nations Western Europe. Retrieved 13 June 2024.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. Hayashi, Nobuo; Bailliet, Cecilia M. (19 January 2017). The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-94315-1.
  10. Bailliet, Cecilia; Larsen, Kjetil Mujezinović (2015). Promoting Peace Through International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-872273-1.
  11. Bailliet, Cecilia M. (9 August 2012). Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes: From the Margins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-139-56093-1.