CURRICULUM VITAE Louise Doswald-Beck Chemin de Bonvent 37, 1218 Geneva, Switzerland Home: +41 (0)22 788 05 93 Mobile: +41 (0)78 738 72 17 doswald@hei.unige.ch Profile Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies. Member of the Directorate of the Geneva Academy of International humanitarian Law and Human Rights (ADH) and Director of its predecessor, the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (UCIHL). Member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and previously Secretary General of the ICJ. Legal Advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Head of the Legal Division of the ICRC. Prior to joining the ICRC, Lecturer at London University in Public International Law. Experience in teaching, supervision, research and publication Management experience Proven negotiation capacities, both bilaterally and in international fora Experience with fundraising, monitoring and evaluation Career History Graduate Institute of International Studies October 2003 present: Professor of Public International Law: Courses given for the UCIHL and ADH MAS (LL.M) in International Humanitarian Law Seminar on human rights law applicable in armed conflicts and states of emergency Seminar on the use of arms and their regulation Seminar on special protections under international humanitarian law Professional training courses and symposia Arranged and /or gave numerous short courses on international humanitarian law and human rights law given for diplomatic training, for the ICRC, and for Fribourg, Geneva, HEI/Duke and Zurich Universities. Presented papers and gave public talks on a number of subjects at universities, government ministries and the ASIL on topics related to international humanitarian law and human rights law, most notably on the study published by the ICRC on customary international humanitarian law. Participated in expert meetings organised by the ICRC/Asser Institute (on the question of direct participation in hostilities) and the International Commission of Jurists (on business and human rights and the Israel-Lebanon armed conflict). Geneva Academy of Internationl Humanitarian Law and Human Rights October 2007- present: Member of the Directorate Responsibilities include participating in major decisions of the Academy and organising expert meetings, colloquia and training courses for professionals.
University Centre for International Humanitarian Law October 2003-7: Director Responsibilities include the recruitment, personnel management and supervision of 10 full-time or part-time members of staff (administrative personnel and teaching assistants), 8 professors and temporary assistants; fundraising; developing professional training seminars, research projects and expert meetings; representing and promoting the academic and scientific mandate of the Centre. International Commission of Jurists March 2001 October 2003: Secretary-General Responsible for the running of the organisation. Clarified the strategic direction of the organisation including the relationship with its international network; updated and rationalised the administrative functioning of the International Secretariat; established a modern information and documentation centre; diversified and consolidated funding for both core functioning and individual projects. Responsible for the recruitment, personnel management and supervision of 16 permanent members of staff and temporary staff of mandated experts. Supervision of legal officers working on: (i) development of international human rights law; (ii) independence and protection from harassment of judges and lawyers (iii) fact-finding missions and trial observations; (iv) national implementation of human rights law relating to the administration of justice, including the elimination of gender injustice (v) reaction to both governments and the media when international human rights law or international humanitarian law is being undermined. Representation of ICJ to governments, organisations and the media; speaking engagements on international human rights law and on international humanitarian law. International Committee of the Red Cross March 1998-February 2001: Head of the Legal Division April 1996-February 1998: Deputy Head of the Legal Division Supervision of 33 permanent staff and 6 temporary staff working on: (i) thematic issues relating to the development and clarification of international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament and arms control law; (ii) national implementation of international humanitarian law through the Advisory Service; (iii) legal advice to field staff; (iv) legal documentation, databases and website; responsible for recruitment and appraisal of their work. In charge of legal policy directions and representing ICRC legal policy to governments, international and non-international organisations, diplomatic conferences, donors and the media. Encouraged the creation of the International Criminal Court; helped negotiate the Rome Statute and played a pivotal role in the drafting of the Elements of Crimes and the Rules of Procedure in the Preparatory Commission 1998-2000. Contributed significantly to the negotiation of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict. Undertook the extensive study on customary international humanitarian law. Supervised preparation and pleadings for the successful ICRC case before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia relating to confidentiality of ICRC information. Autumn 2000: sabbatical at the London School of Economics. Audited courses on methods and sources of international law, international environmental law, human rights in the developing world, international human rights law and the human rights of women. 2
January 1987-March 1996: Legal Adviser and Senior Legal Adviser Responsible for various developments in international humanitarian law (CCW Protocol IV banning blinding laser weapons despite significant hostility or indifference; Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines; San Remo Manual providing an international restatement of the law regulating armed conflicts at sea which had last been done in 1913). These results required conceiving the appropriate strategy and: - arranging meetings of governmental, technical and legal experts; - drafting and publishing reports, brochures, question and answer pieces etc; - undertaking lobbying with governmental personnel (mostly ministries for foreign affairs and defence), international and non-international organisations, specialised institutes and academics; - representing the ICRC and negotiating at diplomatic conferences; - giving interviews with the press, radio and television. Created a database for use by ICRC personnel on international and regional human rights instruments and summaries of case-law on the right to fair trial, pre-trial procedure, the rights of detainees and states of emergency. Gave courses and numerous presentations on humanitarian law and human rights law to diplomats, military and other governmental personnel. To academics and to the ICRC s own staff. University of London 1982-1986: Lecturer in Law, University College, London Responsible for: LL.M. course on the International Protection of Human Rights (one-year course that included the philosophy and history of human rights, international and regional systems and case-law); LL.M. course on the International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force (a one-year course comprising international humanitarian law, the law relating to the resort to the use of force and neutrality law); Creation and teaching of a new Diploma course on General International Law; Undergraduate tutorials in Public International Law. Research and consultancy work 1979-1981: Received a grant from the Swiss national fund to undertake research on the case-law of the European Convention on Human Rights. June-August 1978: Wrote a legal opinion for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy on the compatibility of a draft law with the Brussels and Paris Conventions on liability to third parties in the field of nuclear energy. December 1977-April 1978: Research for the Department of Justice of the Canton of Berne on succession of States to property in international law. University of Exeter 1975-1977: Lecturer in Law Responsible for: Course on Public International Law (compulsory first-year subject) Tutorials on the Law of Torts Supervision of post-graduate work on states of emergency international law 3
Membership of organisations American Society of International Law: Member of the Executive Committees of the Lieber Society and the Human Rights Interest Group; 2004-6 Co-chair of the Human Rights Interest Group; International Commission of Jurists: member of the Executive Committee. Asser Institute: member of the Board of Editors Swiss Association of International Law Swiss Association of Military Law and the Law of War Higher Education 1973: LL.B., University of Bristol 1974: LL.M. in International Law, University of London (Human Rights, Armed Conflict and the Use of Force, International Institutions, European Institutions) 1975: Barrister, Inner Temple Personal Nationality: British and Swiss Date of Birth: 7 July 1952 Married, 2 children 1979 and 1980 Languages Fluent: English (mother tongue); French Basic working knowledge: German, Spanish Basic spoken: Greek Publications 1978: What does the Prohibition of Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Mean? The Interpretation of the European Commission and Court of Human Rights (1978) XXV Netherlands International Law Review. 1980: A Duty in International Law to Provide for Basic Needs, in D. Lasok et al., eds., Fundamental Duties, Pergamon Press, 1980. 1983: The Meaning of the Right to Respect for Private Life under the European Convention on Human Rights (1983) 4 Human Rights Law Journal. 1984: The Legality of the United States Intervention in Grenada (1984) XXXI:3 Netherlands International Law Review; (1984) 24:2 Indian Journal of International Law. 1985: The Legal Validity of Military Intervention by Invitation of the Government (1985) 56 British Yearbook of International Law. Multi-National Peac-Keeping Forces in Lebanon 1982-4: Legal Aspects (1985) III Anglo- Polish Legal Colloquium, University of Warsaw. 1986: After the Submarine: The Need for a New Law of Naval Armed Conflict (1986) 7 Italian Yearbook of International Law. 1987: The Civilian in the Crossfire (1987) 24 Journal of Peace Research. 4
1989: The Value of the 1977 Geneva Protocols for the Protection of Civilians in M. Meyer, ed., Armed Conflict and the New Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 1989 International Humanitarian law: A Means of Protecting Human Rights in Time of Armed Conflict (1989) 1 African Journal of International and Comparative Law. 1990: The Development of New Anti-Personnel Weapons co-authored with G. Cauderay, (November-December 1990) International Review of the Red Cross. 1992: Self-determination and International Humanitarian Law, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the African Society of International and Comparative Law 1992. 1993: International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law (March-April 1993) International Review of the Red Cross. Obstacles to Regulating New Weaponry: Battlefield Laser Weapons in M. Meyer, ed., Effecting Compliance, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 1993. Blinding Weapons: Reports of the Meeting of Experts Convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross on Battlefield Laser Weapons, International Committee of the Red Cross 1993. 1994: Vessels, Aircraft and Persons Entitled to Protection during Armed Conflicts at Sea (1994) British Yearbook of International Law. 1995: San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (edited and partly authored text and Commentary), Cambridge University Press 1995. San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (November-December 1995) International Review of the Red Cross. San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (1995) 89 American Journal of International Law (different article to previous reference). 1996: Humanitarian Law Perspectives, co-authored with P. Herby, in J. Dahlitz, ed., Future Legal Restraints on Arms Proliferation, Vol. III, United Nations. New Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (May-June 1996) International Review of the Red Cross. 1997: International Humanitarian Law and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (January-February 1997) International Review of the Red Cross. 1998: The Protection of Medical Aircraft in International Law (1998) 27 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. 1999: Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in Future Wars in M.N. Schmitt L.C. Green, eds., The Law of Armed Conflict into the New Millennium, Naval War College International Law Studies, Vol. 71, Newport, 1999. 2000: Participation of Non-Governmental Entities in Treaty-Making: the Case of Conventional Weapons in V. Gowlland-Debbas, Multilateral Treaty-Making, Martinus Nijhoff. 5
2002: Some thoughts on Computer Network Attack and the International Law of Armed Conflict in M.N. Schmitt L.C. Green, eds., Computer Network Attack and International Law, Naval War College International Law Studies, Vol. 76, Newport, 2002. The Influence of National Parliaments on Global Policy making in Global Policy without Democracy? German Foundation for International Development. National Implementation of Human Rights and the Administration of Justice in International Symposium on Human Rights in Taiwan, Taiwan New Century Foundation. 2004: Judicial Process and Human Rights : United Nations, European, American and African systems : texts and summaries of international case-law, co-authored with Robert Kolb, Engel, 465pp. Garanties judiciaries et droits de l homme, Nations Unies, Systèmes européen, américan et African: textes et resumés de la jurisprudence internationale ; co-authored with Robert Kolb, Engel, 468pp. Human rights and humanitarian law: are some individuals bereft of all legal protection? ASIL Proc.2004, pp. 353-358 Nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law : Report of the Inquiry into the legality of nuclear weapons, Kings College London, Nov. 2004, at pp.43-46. 2005: Customary International Humanitarian Law, Vol I: Rules, co-authored with Jean-Marie Henckearts CUP 2005, 621pp; Vol.II: Practice, co-edited with Jean-Marie Henckaerts, CUP 4411pp. Developments in Customary International Humanitarian Law, Swiss Review for International and European Law, 3/2005, pp.471-498 2006: 2007: The right to life in armed conflict: does international humanitarian law provide all the answers? International Review of the Red Cross, Vol.88, No. 864, December 2006, 24 pp Private Military Companies under International Humanitarian Law : Chapter 7 in From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies, Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt (eds.), OUP Forthcoming: Fair Trial, Right to, International Protection in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, OUP. International Crimes, in Lexicon on Post-conflict Peacebuilding (part of GIAN-supported research project supervised by Vincent Chetail). 6