Miriam Cohen

Biography

Miriam Cohen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal and holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Restorative Justice. She is the founder of the Laboratory on Human Rights and International Justice, funded by the John R. Evans Leaders Award of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Professor Cohen is a member of the Quebec Bar and an accredited mediator. She obtained her doctorate in international law from Leiden University. She was the recipient of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship at Harvard Law School, where she received her Masters in International Human Rights Law. She also holds a Master’s degree in International Law from Cambridge University and a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Law. Professor Cohen is a researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), the Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) and the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CÉRIUM). She is the award-wining author of Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2020), recipient of the Canadian Council on International Law’s Scholarly Book Award and an Award from the Fondation du Barreau du Québec. She is the author of some fifty publications, written in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. A frequent guest lecturer and trainer, she has lectured in every continent and on a wide range of international law and human rights themes. She has worked at the United Nations International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, and has appeared as legal counsel before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She is Vice-President of the Société québécoise de droit international, and a member of the boards of the Canadian Council on International Law, Lawyers without Borders and the Réseau francophone de droit international. She is a delegate of the Science Meets Parliament Program (2024 edition) and a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (2024). Her work focuses on public international law, international dispute resolution, international criminal law and international human rights law.

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