Miriam Cohen is an Associate Professor of international law and human rights. She is a researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit prospectif (CRDP) and the Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) at University of Montréal. She is the author of “Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes” published with Cambridge University Press (2020), and co-author, with Professor Stáphane Beaulac, of the 3rd edition of Précis de droit international public with LexisNexis (2021). She has published widely in the fields of international law, human rights, international criminal law and reparations, and her research has appeared in leading law reviews and books in Canada, Europe, the United States, South Korea, and Brazil. She is a Rapporteur for the Oxford University Press International Organisations (OXIO) project. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Council on International Law, the Foundation for Legal Research, among others. She is the Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of funded interdisciplinary projects in international law and human rights, and she leads a comparative human rights research project with Pro Bono Students Canada (PSBC). She earned her PhD in international law from Leiden University, and Masters of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, from the University of Cambridge and from Université de Montréal.

As an international lawyer (member of the Quebec Bar), Dr. Cohen has acted as Counsel for Panama before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg. She is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL) and the Société québécoise de droit international (SQDI). She is originally from Brazil, and she consults, researches or teaches in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

She joined University of Montreal from the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University where she was Co-Editor in Chief of the Lakehead Law Journal and Chair of the Faculty of Law Diversity Comittee. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Cohen gained extensive experience in the legal departments of international organizations. She served in legal advisory roles at the United Nation's International Court of Justice (ICJ) and previously at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Dr. Cohen also worked at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, dealing primarily with appellate proceedings. She worked at an international firm in Montreal and in pro bono cases. Dr. Cohen was previously a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, served as Rapporteur to an Expert Committee on a Draft Convention on Crimes against Humanity, and was part of a delegation to an arms control treaty negotiation at the United Nations, in Geneva.

Affiliations

Membre – CRDP — Centre de recherche en droit public
Membre – CICC — Centre international de criminologie comparée
Membre – Observatoire des mesures visant la sécurité nationale

Expertises

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Centre de Recherche en Droit Prospectif ( CRDP ) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2028

Lead researcher : Vincent Gautrais

Co-researchers : Violaine Lemay , Hugo Tremblay , Catherine Régis , Derek McKee , Marianne Quirouette , Jean-Louis Denis , Mylène Jaccoud , Pierre Trudel , Miriam Cohen , Pierre Noreau , Karim Benyekhlef , Annick Provencher , Marion Vacheret , Aude Motulsky , Nicolas Vermeys , Catherine Piché , Georges Azzaria , Véronique Guèvremont , Christine Vézina , Jean-Frédéric Morin , Corinne Gendron , Shauna Van Praagh , Robert Sladek , Richard Gold , Fabien Gélinas , Lara Khoury , Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse , Yann Joly , Ma'n Hilmi Mohammad Zawati , Louis-Martin Rousseau , Ryad Titah , Bartha Maria Knoppers , Pierre-Luc Déziel , Nandini Ramanujam , Karine Gentelet , Emmanuelle Marceau , Ignacio Cofone , Françoise Bichai , Sébastien Jodoin Pilon

Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)

Grant programs: PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques

Canada Research Chair in Justice internationale et droits fondamentaux / international justice and human rights Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2026

Lead researcher : Miriam Cohen

Funding sources: SPIIE/Secrétariat des programmes interorganismes à l’intention des établissements

Grant programs: PVX50399-Chaires de recherche du Canada

Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2025

Lead researcher : Rémi Boivin , Carlo Morselli (In memoriam)

Co-researchers : Frédéric Ouellet , Jean Proulx , Jean-Pierre Guay , Massimiliano Mulone , Samuel Tanner , Karine Côté-Boucher , Isabelle V. Daignault , Anthony Amicelle , Jean Bérard , Marc Ouimet , Maurice Cusson , Serge Brochu , Amissi Melchiade Manirabona , Denis Lafortune , Franca Cortoni , Céline Bellot , Francis Fortin , David Décary-Hétu , Jo-Anne Wemmers , Etienne Blais , Benoît Dupont , Chloé Leclerc , David Grondin , Anne Crocker , Jean Trépanier , Marianne Quirouette , Catherine Arseneault , Tamsin Higgs , Miriam Cohen , Chantal Plourde , Aurélie Campana , Isabelle Fortin-Dufour , Nadine Deslauriers-Varin , Patrick Lussier , Marc Alain , Martin Drapeau , Jason Carmichael , Marie Manikis , Stéphane Leman-Langlois , Decio Coviello , Monique Tardif , Natacha Brunelle , Christian Joyal , Sylvie Hamel , Julie Lefebvre , Julie Carpentier , Frank Crispino , Nina Admo , Serge Charbonneau , Michelle Cote , Estibaliz Jimenez , Yanick Charette , Amélie Couvrette , André Lajeunesse , Emmanuel Milot , Benjamin Ducol , Annie Gendron , Enid Gabriella Coleman , Mathilde Turcotte , Carolyn Côté-Lussier , Cyril Muehlethaler , Jan Doering , Elsa Euvrard , Shari Forbes , Maxime Bérubé , Jonathan James

Funding sources: FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)

Grant programs: PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques

Laboratoire de justice internationale et droits fondamentaux Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024

Lead researcher : Miriam Cohen

Funding sources: FCI/Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation

Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Fonds des leaders

Potentialiser le leadership normatif de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé: une étude internationale Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2024

Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir

Defining reparations for victims of violent crimes: a comparative analysis Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2022

Lead researcher : Miriam Cohen

Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

Supplément COVID-19 CRSH / Defining reparations for victims of violent crimes: a comparative analysis Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2021

Lead researcher : Miriam Cohen

Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Supplément à l’appui des étudiants, des stagiaires postdoctoraux et du personnel de soutien à la recherche COVID-19

Étude comparée des droits de la personne Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021

Lead researcher : Miriam Cohen

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