Iulia Motoc

Iulia Antoanella Motoc
Iulia Motoc
Born	(1967-08-20) August 20, 1967 Timişoara, Romania
Occupation(s)	Member of the Human Rights Committee, professor and lawyer
Spouse	Mihnea Motoc
Children	Luca-Mihnea Moţoc

Iulia Antoanella Motoc is a Romanian international law professor and international expert, now Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Moţoc is a professor at the University of Bucharest, where she holds courses on International law, Human rights, European law. She has also lectured at several Universities, including NYU, Yale University, European University Institute, Florence and UN University, Tokyo. According to "Pladoyer pour les droits de l'homme" she was the youngest UN Special Rapporteur. Iulia Motoc was appointed judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania in 2010.

History

Born in Timişoara, she graduated from the School of law at the University of Bucharest. Iulia Antoanella Motoc holds a master degree from the Paul Cézanne University, School of Law , Aix-Marseille, a doctorate in international law from Paul Cézanne University, Aix-Marseille (summa cum laude), an habilitation in law from Jean Monnet Department University Paris Sud and doctorate in ethics from the University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy. Iulia Antoanella Motoc was former member and President of the UN Sub commission on the promotion and protection of Human Rights. She was also UN Special Rapporteur for human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the youngest human Rights of the United Nations (according to "Plaidoyer pour les droits de l'homme"). It this quality she paid special attention to violence against women and children. She visited NYU School of law as a Fulbright scholar co-teaching courses in International Law and Yale Law School as Senior Schell Fellow. She was prized for her academic achievements and elected in the several prestigious academic Boards, ESIL, International Board of Academics and Practitioners Melbourne University, TMC Asser Netherlands, EMA Director, EIUC Venice. She is a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Genome and Human Rights, Member of the Human Rights Committee and Member of the Advisory Committee for the Framework Convention on the Protection on Minorities, Council of Europe. Iulia Antoanella Motoc is an arbiter and conciliator with ICSID Washington.

Personal life

Iulia Antoanella Motoc is married with the Romanian Ambassador to EU Mihnea Motoc and they have a son, Luca-Mihnea Motoc . Iulia Antoanella Motoc's mother is Maria Antonescu.

Selected works

Books and studies

• Pladoyer pour les droits de l'homme, Universite Pantheon II Assas, Universite de Bucharest 2008
• The International law of genetic discrimination in T.Murphy (ed) New Technologies and Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2009
• Conceptions of pluralism and international law in E. Jouannet, H.R. Fabri, Proceedings of the ESIL A quoi ca sert le droit international, Hart, Oxford, 2008
• The Responsibility of State and the Individual: Controversial aspects of the right to democracy, Thesaurus Acroasium, Thessaloniki, 2006
• Taking Democracy Seriously: The Normative Challenges to the International Legal System in S.Griller (eds) International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns, Springer Vienna-New York, 2003 (co-author).
• L'Europe Unie et l'Europe d'après le communisme: rationalité et éthique de l'élargissement, in E.Barnavi, Les frontières de l 'Europe, Ed. de Bloeck, Wesmael, Bruxelles, 2001
• Uniunea Europeana: Dreptul si politica largirii la Est (European Union: The Law and the Politics of Eastwards Enlargement), Paideia, Bucharest, 2001
• Teoria relaţiilor internaţionale: sursele filosofiei legale si morale (Theory of International Relations: the Moral and Legal Philosophy Traditions), Paideia, Bucharest, 2001
• Interpréter la guerre, les exceptions de l'article 2&4 de la Charte O.N.U devant le Conseil de securité, Babel Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997
• Europe and its teleology. Is there a Central-Eastern Vison? in C. Jorges, Y. Meny, J.H.H.Weiler (eds), What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity, Responses to J. Fischer, European Institute Florence, Harvard School of Law, 2000
• Les critères politiques dans le Parteneriat avec les Pays d'Europe Centrale et Orientale in M.F. Labouz (eds), Le Parteneriat de l'Union Européenne avec les Etats Tiers, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2000
• La prévention et la répression du génocide et la conception sur la justice: le droit international entre lege ferenda et utopie in, K.Bustany, D. Dormoy (eds), Génocide(s), Ed.Bruylant, Bruxelles, 1999

Working papers and reports for UN

• Reports on the situations of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2002, 2003, 2004)
• Working papers and reports on Human Rights and Human Genome (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Working paper on standards settings and indigenous people (2003)
• Working paper on free prior and informed consent of indigenous people- With Tentebba Foundation (2004, 2005)
• Working papers and reports on extreme poverty (with the Working Group on Extreme Poverty) (2003, 2004, 2005)
• Working paper on non-state actors and human rights (co-author) (2005)

References

• http://www.unibuc.ro/
• K. Koufa, Preface, Pladoyer pour les droits de l'homme, Universite Pantheon-Assas Paris 2, Universite de Bucharest, 2008 ISBN 978-973-737-567-4
• Challenges in Aid to Rape Victims: the Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• M BOSMANS - Essex Human Rights Review, 2007
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 19 June 2006
• http://www.esil.com/
• http://www.ishr.ch/
• S Zleptnig - International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press
• J Carino - Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2005 – R McMahon - Transitions Online, 2005 - CEEOL

External links

• Iulia Motoc's Personal Site
• Constitutional Court of Romania