mardi 1 janvier 2008

Biographie orateur : Prof. Marco Sassòli

Prof. Marco SASSÒLI


Marco Sassòli, national of Switzerland and Italy, is since March 2004 ordinary professor of international law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and chairs the boards of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and of Geneva Call, an NGO with the objective to engage armed non-State actors to adhere to humanitarian norms. He is also member of the board of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. From 2001-2003, he has been regular professor of international law at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, where he remains associate professor. He is also associate professor at the University of Laval.

Marco Sassòli graduated as doctor of laws at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is member of the Swiss bar. He has worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the headquarters, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the Middle East and the Balkans, inter alia as head of delegation in Jordan and Syria and as protection co-ordinator for the former Yugoslavia.

He has also served as executive secretary of the International Commission of Jurists and as registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court.

He has published on international humanitarian law (see in particular M. Sassòli & A. Bouvier, How Does Law Protect in War?, 2nd ed., Geneva, ICRC, 2006, 2473 pp.), human rights law, international criminal law, international law and private actors, the sources of international law, and on state responsibility.

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