Miriam Cohen

Biography

Miriam Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice. She is the founder of the Laboratory on Human Rights and International Justice, funded by the John R. Evans Leaders Fund of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), where she leads an interdisciplinary research team.  She obtained her doctorate in international law from Leiden University. She was a 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 Masters degree in international law from the University of Cambridge, and a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal, where she also completed her Bachelor degree in Law. Professor Cohen is the author of Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes (Cambridge University Press, 2020), winner of the Canadian Council on International Law’s Scholarly Book Award and the First Prize of the Quebec Bar Foundation. She is the author of some fifty publications, written in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese (her mother tongue). A frequent guest lecturer and trainer, she has lectured on every continent, on a wide range of international law and human rights issues. She is a mediator, member of Quebec Bar, and has worked at the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and has acted as legal counsel before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. She is Vice-President of the Quebec Society of International Law, a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law and Lawyers without Borders Canada. 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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