Paola Gaeta Curriculum Vitae (updated July 2015)

Paola Gaeta
Curriculum Vitae (updated July 2015)
PERSONAL DATA
8 February 1967, Salerno (Italy)
Italian, female
[email protected]
[email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, Law, with distinction, European University Institute (1997)
Laurea in Scienze Politiche, cum laude, University of Florence, Specialization in International Law (1991)
CURRENT POSITION
Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; serving as head of the Department of
International Law
Adjunct Professor, Law Department, Bocconi University, Milan
PREVIOUS APPOINTEMENTS
Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (1 January 2011-31 July
2014) of its LL.M. and Teaching Programmes, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human
Rights (1 October 2007-31 July 2014)
Full Professor, Law Faculty, University of Geneva (1.09.2007-31.8.2015)
Full Professor (2006-2010) , Associate Professor (2002-2005), and Lecturer (Ricercatore) (1998-2001), University of
Florence
Adjunct Professor, International Law Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
(1.2.2010-31.08.2015)
Long-term Visiting Professor, Bocconi University, Milan (1.9.2014-31.8.2015)
EDITORIAL’S RESPONSIBILITIES (JOURNALS AND SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS)
Editor (with S. Zappalà), Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian and Criminal Law (Oxford University
Press) (as from July 2012)
Member of the Board of Editors, Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press) as from 2009
Member of the Board of Editors, European Journal of International Law, (Oxford University Press) 2010-2012
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Pro-Bono Member of the Committee of Expert for the International Crimes Evidence Project on Sri Lanka of the
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Fall 2013
Pro-bono activity (expert opinion and affidavit), on behalf of the Centre for Justice and Accountability, Samantar
case July-October 2011
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Legal Adviser for the Government of Uruguay Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay case (Argentina v. Uruguay ),
provisional measures requested by Uruguay December 2006
Legal Adviser for the Applicant Lebedev v. Russia case, European Court of Human Rights (Supplementary
Submission to the second Application and Request for Interim Measures), November2005-March 2006
Legal Assistant, Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (assigned to the
Erdemovic case and the Blaskic case (subpoena duces tecum) 1997
OTHER
Visiting Professor, European University Institute, Law Department Fall 2013
Promoter and Founder of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity 2012
Visiting professor-Overseas Study programme, Stanford University (Florence) Spring 2007
Co-Director of the Course on Public International Law, Post-graduate Programme on “Parliamentary Studies”,
Associazione di Studi Parlamentari “Silvano Tosi”, University of Florence 2003-2008
Director of the course on Public International Law, Post-Graduate Programme on International Studies, Istituto
Superiore di Studi internazionali, Florence 1998-2005
Attachée de recherché, Chaire internationale de recherche « Blaise Pascal 2002 » (held by Antonio Cassese), Centre
de droit pénal comparé, Université de Paris 1 2001-2002
Asser Research Fellowships Programme January-April1999
Visiting Fellow, Research (Lauterpacht) Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), with
a scholarship of the University of Florence 1996
Researcher under the PhD Programme, European University Institute with a scholarship granted by the Italian
Government and the European University Institute 1993-97
MAIN FIELD OF RESEARCH
Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights
Law
LANGUAGES
Italian (native speaker); English (fluent); French (fluent)
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