Dr Nadia Bernaz
Senior Lecturer - Prog. Leader MA Human Rights and Business
Department: Law
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 4957
- E-mail: N.Bernaz@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA Law and Languages (Maîtrise Juriste Trilingue) - Grenoble, France and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Followed classes MA Political Science - Kansas State University, USA
LL.M. Public international law (DEA droit international public) - Aix-en-Provence, France
PhD Public international law (Doctorat droit international public) - Aix-en-Provence, France
Graduate Diploma in Law - BPP Law School, London
Research Interests
- Public International Law
- Human Rights and Business
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- International Criminal Law
- Death Penalty Issues
- Caribbean region
Teaching Interests
- International human rights law
- Public international law
- International criminal law
- Corporate liability and international law
Biography
Blog: Rights as Usual | Twitter:@HRightsBusiness
Member: Interights Legal Research Panel, Society of Legal Scholars, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Association française pour les Nations Unies - Aix-en-Provence, Board of L'Observateur des Nations Unies.
Selected publications:
Books
- Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law, 2010, co-edited with Professor William Schabas.
-Le droit international et la peine de mort, La Documentation Française, 2008 (International Law and the Death Penalty).
Articles
- "Delivering Justice in the Caribbean: a Human Rights Assessment of the Caribbean Court of Justice”, Public Law, forthcoming in 2012.
- "Life Imprisonment and the Prohibition of Inhuman Punishments in International Human Rights Law: Moving the Agenda Forward", Human Rights Quarterly, forthcoming in 2012.
Chapters in books
- "Continuing Evolution of the United Nations Treaty Bodies System", in Nigel S. RODLEY and Scott SHEERAN (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law, forthcoming in 2012.
- “International and Domestic Prosecutions”, in Cherif BASSIOUNI (ed.) The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice, Intersentia, 2010, 269-398, co-authored with Dr Rémy Prouvèze.
- “Reforming the UN Human Rights Protection Procedures: a Legal Perspective on the Establishment of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism”, in Kevin BOYLE (ed.), New Institutions for Human Rights Protection, Oxford University Press, 2009, 75-92.
Posts on other blogs
- The Death Penalty in Iraq on Jurist, 20 February 2012.
- John Ruggie's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on IntLawGrrls, 22 June 2011.
In the media
1 - On the Caribbean Court of Justice:
- Guest on “Beyond the Headlines” hosted by Dionne Jackson-Miller on Real Jamaican Radio (2011)
- Guest on “Jumpstart” hosted by Rose Bennett-Cooper on HOT 102 FM (Kingston, Jamaica) (2011).
2 - On capital punishment:
- Guest on "The Stream" on Al Jazeera (2012).
Languages spoken
French (mother tongue)
Italian
