Professor Miriam Cohen and Mr. Renan Teles Campos de Carvalho, Research Associate at the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice, participated as scientific experts in a focus group as part of the public consultation process of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to revise and complete […] Read more
Professor Miriam Cohen and doctoral candidate (LLD) Nouwagnon Olivier Afogo are the authors of the article The Contribution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the Protection of Human Rights and the Public Interest at Sea. They analyze the Tribunal's contribution to the Law of the Sea spectrum, particularly in cases […] Read more
As part of the project "At the Edge of Globalization: Global Governance and its Limits", Miriam Cohen is part of a team of six researchers who have been awarded the Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) grant of nearly $400,000. This will allow her to collaborate on global governance projects while highlighting […] Read more
On February 7th, the Law and Politics Committee of the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal organized a 4-to-7 networking event, inviting students, professors, ambassadors and consuls to come and share their experience while enjoying aperitifs. Among the guests of the evening was Professor Miriam Cohen. This was a unique opportunity for students […] Read more
We are proud to announce that Professor Miriam Cohen, chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and international Reparative Justice, has been awarded the 2022 Scholarly Book Award in the Canadian Council on International Law's Awards for Excellence in Scholarship competition. This prize recognizes books that bring a significant contribution to international law literature. […] Read more
Professor Miriam Cohen, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice, and Sarah-Michèle Vincent-Wright, doctoral student and scientific coordinator of the Chair, are pleased to announce the publication of two new scientific articles. Conflict Resolution in Human Rights Cases: the Evolving Role of the Supreme Court of Canada As part of the 5th […] Read more
With the Cleveringa Lectures 2022, the CRDP and the CICC offered the University of Montreal a new commemoration of the famous protest speech delivered by Professor Rudolph Cleveringa on 26 November 1940. As part of these sessions, on 9 December 2022, Larissa van den Herik, Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre of […] Read more
On 16 November 2022, Professor Miriam Cohen was called to testify as an expert witness before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development of the House of Commons of Canada. The testimony took place in the context of the study of Bill S-223, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and […] Read more
On 9 November, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that has been making headlines for months, the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice and the Canadian Red Cross benefited from the presence of Professor Marco Sassòli (University of Geneva) to hold a luncheon discussion on international humanitarian law (IHL). Guests […] Read more
On November 3rd, Professor Miriam Cohen participated in the second congress of the Mukwege International Chair, held at the Université Évangélique en Afrique (U.E.A.) in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The central theme of the conference was reparation for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. The congress aimed to study this theme under four pillars: […] Read more