Cecilia Bailliet

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Cecilia Bailliet
Born (1969-04-24) 24 April 1969 (age 55)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Norwegian, Argentina, and United States
Education George Washington University Law School and the Elliott School of International Affairs and the University of Oslo , Norway
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/Argentine/US 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 joint J.D. and Master's degree in International Affairs. [1]

Bailliet 2003 doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo [1] was titled Between Conflict & Consensus: Conciliating Land Disputes in Guatemala. [2] Thereafter she published an article addressing the need for standards for refugees arriving by sea. [3]

In 2006 she called for guidelines for conscientious objectors applying for asylum. [4] [5]

In 2007 Baillet wrote articles on house raids [6] and on women solidiers seeking asylum. [7] In 2012 she addressed due diligence standards in human rights and refugee cases involving women. [8] In 2013 she examined compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in "Measuring Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. [9]

Bailliet is a professor of law at Oslo University where she leads the masters programme in Public International Law. [10]

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. [11] '

Bailliet created the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace in 2020. [12] She created and runs a Masters class titled the International Law of Peace. [13] and she established a series of interviews with international judges on the evolution of international law. [14]

She is Co-Chair of the Latin America Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.

She has contributed lectures to the UN AudioVisual Library of International Law

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. [15] She created the Research Handbook on International Solidarity [15] which was published in 2024. [16] 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. [17]

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. ↑ “The Tampa Case and its Impact on Burden-Sharing at Sea”, Human Rights Quarterly August 2003
  4. ↑ Assessing Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello within the Refugee Status Determination Process: Contemplations on Conscientious Objectors Seeking Asylum", Georgetown Immigration Law Journal Vol. 20 No. 3 Spring 2006.
  5. ↑ UNHCR guidelines on military service and asylum.
  6. ↑ “War in the Home”: An Exposition of Protection Issues Pertaining to the Use of House Raids in Counterinsurgency Operations, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 173-197, 2007
  7. ↑ Examining Sexual Violence in the Military within the Context of Eritrean Asylum Claims Presented in Norway, I nternational Journal of Refugee Law 2007 Vol. 19 No. 3.
  8. ↑ "Persecution in the Home: Applying the Due Diligence Standard to Harmful Traditional Practices within Human Rights and Refugee Law.", in 30 (1) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 36 (2012)
  9. ↑ The Ongoing Challenge of Judicial Independence in Latin America", Nordic Journal of Human Rights 31:4 (2013)
  10. ↑ "Cecilia M. Bailliet | Kellogg Institute For International Studies". kellogg.nd.edu. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Bailliet, Cecilia (9 April 2020). Research Handbook on International Law and Peace. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN   978-1-83910-937-9.
  13. ↑ International Law of Peace
  14. ↑ series of interviews with international judges on the evolution of international law.
  15. 1 2 "Cecilia Bailliet chairs UN Advisory Group". University of Oslo. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  16. ↑ Bailliet, Cecilia M. (12 April 2024). Research Handbook on International Solidarity and the Law. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN   978-1-80392-375-8.
  17. ↑ 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)
  18. ↑ Hayashi, Nobuo; Bailliet, Cecilia M. (19 January 2017). The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-94315-1.
  19. ↑ Bailliet, Cecilia; Larsen, Kjetil Mujezinović (2015). Promoting Peace Through International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-872273-1.
  20. ↑ 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.
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