Profile of Evelyne Schmid

Name:

Evelyne Schmid

Position:

Lecturer in Law

Email:

e.schmid@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

Room 203, Athrolys

Phone:

+44 (0) 1248 388884

Evelyne Schmid is a lecturer in law at Bangor University, Wales. She is returning from a doctoral exchange fellowship at Harvard Law School, Harvard University and is currently completing a PhD in public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her doctoral thesis examines whether violations of economic, social and cultural rights can overlap with existing definitions of international and transnational crimes. Until recently, she was project coordinator of the International Criminal Court’s ICC Legal Tools Project at TRIAL in Geneva and the researcher for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Truth Commission Digital Collection.

She also holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) of the Fletcher School, Tufts University and a Masters degree, with distinction, in International Relations from the University of Geneva. She further studied in Spain and worked for national chapters of Transparency International in Lebanon and in Bahrain. She is a board member of Amnesty International Switzerland and a legal advisor for a Swiss coalition of civil society groups. She was the winner of the inaugural essay award of the Göttingen Journal of International Law, and a recipient of a prestigious Kathryn Davis and Shelby Cullom Davis Doctoral Scholarship.

Evelyne welcomes proposals from prospective research students with interests falling within the areas of her expertise.

Teaching Areas

International and European Law, Human Rights, Legal Research Methods, Business & Human Rights, International Moot Courts.

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

"The End of the Road on Diplomatic Assurances: International Law and the Removal of Terror Suspects", in Essex Human Rights Review, Vol. 8, no. 1 (2011): 219-235.

"War Crimes Related to Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," in Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Vol. 71, no. 3 (2011): 523-541.

"The UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment No. 32 on Article 14 of the ICCPR and the Question of Civilians Tried by Military Courts,” in International Journal of Human Rights Vol. 17, no. 7 (2010): 1058-1071.

"Liberia’s Truth Commission Report: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Transitional Justice," in PRAXIS - The Fletcher Journal of Human Security XXIV (2009): 5-28.

"Re-focusing on Protecting Civilians' Basic Safety and why we Need to Know why People Kill: On the latest Reports of the Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict,” in Journal of International Peacekeeping 13 no. 3-4 (2009): 356-382.

"The Right to a Fair Trial in Times of Terrorism: A Method to Identify the Non-Derogable Aspects of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," in Göttingen Journal of International Law Vol. 1, no.1 (2009): 29-44 (published as the winning submission of the 2008 Essay Competition).

“Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic? Consensus, Corruption and Crisis: Lebanon After the Ta’if Agreement,” in International Relations - Students Perspectives 2 (2007): 27-41.

Book Chapters and Contributions

“Thickening the Rule of Law in Transition: The Constitutional Entrenchment of Economic and Social Rights in South Africa," in International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict States, ed. Edda Kristjánsdóttir, André Nollkaemper and Cedric Ryngaert (Antwerp: Intersentia, in press).

International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, ed. Helmut Anheier, Stefan Toepler, Regina List (New York: Springer, 2010), (contributed five entries).

Case-Notes and Book Reviews

Review of Methods of Human Rights Research, by Fons Coomans, Fred Grunfeld and Menno T. Kamminga (eds) and Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy, Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter, in The International Journal of Transitional Justice Vol. 5, no. 1 (2011): 159-165.

"Anwendbarkeit der Bestimmungen des Internationalen Paktes über wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte (UNO-Pakt I) im Landesrecht: Bundesgerichtsentscheid 136 I 290-295," in Aktuelle Juristische Praxis / Pratique Juridique Actuelle No. 7 (July 2011): 983-984. (Translated title: The applicability of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Domestic Law, Case Note on the Swiss Federal Court’s decision 136 I 290-295).

"Case note: Swiss Federal Tribunal misses crucial opportunity to enforce international standards," Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly, December 2010, 07/4, 8-9.

Commissioned Reports

"The Diversity of Truth Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry", United States Institute of Peace, USIP PeaceBrief, 12 January 2012.

"Transitional Justice: Information Handbook" United States Institute of Peace, Rule of Law Program (Washington DC, 2008).

"Comment la corruption affecte-t-elle les droits de l’homme? Une approche internationale et l’observation du cas libanais" Business & Human Rights Resources (London, 2005). (Translated title: How Does Corruption Affect Human Rights? An International Approach and an Analysis of the Lebanese Case with Particular Attention to the Effects of Corruption on the Lebanese Youth).

"'Big Finance meets Microfinance': La haute finance rencontre-t-elle les micro-entreprises des pays en développement?" Covalence Analyst Paper (Geneva, 2005). (Translated title: Big Finance meets Microfinance: Does high finance meet the micro-enterprises in developing countries?).

"Youth against Corruption" (Beirut, 2005), with the Lebanese Transparency Association and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in English, and translated to Arabic.

Selected Newspaper Articles and Contributions to Wider Media

"Chile: Wiedergutmachung für vergessene Opfer?," Le journal de l’Association suisse contre l’impunité TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), April 2010, no. 21: 15. (Translated title: Chile, Reparations for forgotten victims?).

"Neue Kriegsmaterialverordnung verbietet Schweizer Rüstungsexporte in Konfliktstaaten," Le journal de l’Association suisse contre l’impunité TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), July 2009, no. 19: 19-21. (Translated title: The new ordinance on war material prohibits Swiss exports of war material to conflict states).

"Völkerrecht: Kriegsmaterial – Schweiz liefert trotz Exportverbot," Plädoyer: Magazin für Recht und Politik, October 2009, no. 5/09: 26-28. (Translated title: International Law: War Material – Switzerland exports despite prohibition).

"Völkerrecht: Waffenexporte und die Genfer Konventionen," GSoA Zeitung, March 2009, no. 137. (Translated title: International Law: Arms Exports and the Geneva Conventions).

"Uno Sicherheitsrat: Sexuelle Gewalt als Kriegswaffe," GSoA Zeitung, August 2008, no. 135. (Translated title: UN Security Council: Sexual violence as a method of warfare).

Blogs

"Two Legal Issues in the Context of the Abu Garda Decision," Making Sense of Sudan, 27 February 2010.

Contributor to the Transitional Justice Forum, www.tj-forum.org (February 2009 – August 2010).

Academic Lectures and Conferences

"Can Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights be International Crimes?" presented in

LLM Writers Workshop at Harvard Law School, 21 April 2011;
Public lecture at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, sponsored by the UConn Grads for Human Rights Graduate Lecture Series, 15 April 2011;
Public lecture at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, sponsored by the Human Rights Project, 13 April 2011.

"Verletzungen von wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturellen Menschenrechten im Völkerstrafrecht." Presentation given at the 4th Conference of AjV (Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftler, Association of young international lawyers), Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, 23 – 24 October 2010. (Translated title: Violations of economic, social and cultural rights in international criminal law).

"Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as International Crimes." Poster presentation at the International Law Association Conference, The Hague, 15 – 20 August 2010.

"Tous les êtres humains naissent libres et égaux en dignité et en droits: la protection des droits humains et la pauvreté." Guest lecture given at the Summer Course of the University of Neuchâtel, 7 July 2010. (Translated title: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights: Human rights and poverty).

"Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCR) in transitional justice: 'Expanding' mandates or 'making human rights whole'?" Presentation at the annual conference of the Center for Conflict Studies, Phillips University of Marburg, Transitional Justice - Local conflicts, Global Norms, Marburg, 23 – 25 March 2010.

"Why Changing the Constitution is not Enough: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Paper presented at the COST Action IS0602 - International Law in Domestic Courts Workshop at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, 15 – 16 October 2009.

"Gender and Conflict: Potential Gains of Civil Society Efforts to Include Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Transitional Justice Strategies." Paper presented at the SHUR Final Conference, Human Rights in Conflict — the Role of Civil Society, Center for Ethics and Global Politics, Rome, 4 – 6 June 2009.

Websites

Researched and compiled the updated USIP Truth Commission Digital Collection (2008-2011) (see http://www.usip.org/publications/truth-commission-digital-collection).