Miriam Cohen
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté de droit
Pavillon Maximilien-Caron office A-8428
- Chercheuse
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Faculté de droit - CRDP
- Chercheuse
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Centre d'études et de recherches internationales
Doctorat en droit international public (PhD)
2017
, Université de Leiden (Pays-Bas)
Maîtrise en droit (LLM)
2009
, Harvard Law School (États-Unis)
Maîtrise en droit (LLM)
2008
, Université de Cambridge (Royaume-Uni)
Maîtrise en droit (LLM)
2007
, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Baccalauréat en droit
2006
, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Biography
Miriam Cohen holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal, where she teaches courses in public international law, international human rights law, and international criminal justice. Professor Cohen earned her doctorate in international law from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She pursued graduate studies at Harvard Law School, where she was awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship (granted by Harvard University) and the John Peters Humphrey Fellowship (awarded by the Canadian Council on International Law). She also holds an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (as a Rt. Honourable Paul Martin Sr. Scholar), as well as both an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the Université de Montréal. She was elected to the Global Young Academy in 2024.
Recipient of numerous awards and research grants - including from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canadian Bar Association and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - she collaborates with several interdisciplinary and international teams. She received the Scholarly Book Award from the Canadian Council on International Law and the Legal Writing Prize from the Quebec Bar Foundation for her book Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes: From Theory to Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She has published over forty articles and book chapters in leading publications across the globe, and she is also co-author of the third edition of Précis de droit international public with Professor Stéphane Beaulac (LexisNexis, 2021).
At the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law, she leads research projects in international law and human rights. She is also the founder of the Human Rights and International Justice Lab, where she directs interdisciplinary research teams that have developed a technological platform specialized in the review and analysis of human rights data. This large-scale project, conducted in partnership with the Centre d’expertise numérique en recherche (CEN-R) at the Université de Montréal, was awarded a grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, as well as a second grant from the Government of Quebec to build the digital research infrastructure, totalling nearly $400,000 for Phase 1.
Before entering academia, Professor Cohen gained extensive experience in international organizations. She worked in the legal department at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and previously at the Appeals Chamber and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She has also served as a researcher at Harvard Law School, a rapporteur for an expert committee on a draft convention on crimes against humanity, and a member of an international delegation during United Nations treaty negotiations in Geneva. As an expert in international law, she has acted as Legal Counsel before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg). A member of the Quebec Bar and an accredited mediator, she has also been involved in a Supreme Court of Canada intervention and served as amicus curiae before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Professor Cohen is regularly invited as a consultant, speaker, and trainer. She is Assistant Editor of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law and Vice President of the Société québécoise de droit international. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law, Lawyers Without Borders Canada, and the Réseau francophone de droit international. She is an affiliated researcher at the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (CICC), and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CÉRIUM), and a member of the Hygeia Observatory, where she leads initiatives on international legal issues.
Originally from Brazil, Professor Cohen works in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French, and has working knowledge of Italian and Dutch.
Affiliations
- Membre – CRDP — Centre de recherche en droit public
- Membre – CICC — Centre international de criminologie comparée
- Membre – CÉRIUM — Centre d'études et de recherches internationales
- Membre – Observatoire des mesures visant la sécurité nationale
Education Programs
- Law
- Law Economics and Politics
- Law Economics and Politics
- Law Economics and Politics
- Economics and Politics Law
Courses
- DRT6830D Droit international public avancé
Expertises
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : LL. M.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2031
Laboratoire de justice internationale et droits fondamentaux Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2030
La mondialisation sous tension (MST)_Aux confins de la mondialisation: la gouvernance mondiale et ses limites Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2028
Centre de recherche en droit public ( CRDP ) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2028
Dialoguer les droits humains Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2026
Climate Change and Human Rights: Responsibility and Reparation Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2026
Chaire de recherche du Canada en droits humains et justice réparatrice internationale Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2026
La justice climatique devant les cours internationales: responsabilité et réparation Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2025
Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2017 - 2025
Laboratoire de droits humains et justice internationale Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2024
Étude comparée des droits de la personne Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2024
Potentialiser le leadership normatif de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé: une étude internationale Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2024
Une analyse comparée des réparations pour les violations des droits humains Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2023
Supplément COVID-19 CRSH / Defining reparations for victims of violent crimes: a comparative analysis Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2021
La justice internationale dans le conflit russo-ukranien Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022
La justice réparatrice internationale: la CIJ et la CPI Projet de recherche à l’international / 2022
Observatoire Hygeia - santé des femmes et des filles Projet de recherche à l’international / 2021
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- Livres
- BEAULAC, Stéphane et COHEN, Miriam « Précis de droit international public : théories, sources, interlégalité, sujets », Lexis Nexis, 2021, 836 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam « Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes: From Theory to Practice », Cambridge University Press, 2020, 286 pp. Lauréat de deux prix scientifiques: le Prix du Livre Savant du Conseil canadien de droit international et le Premier Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec.
- Préfaces de livre
- COHEN, Miriam, Préface du livre « The Politics of Litigating Human Rights », Routledge, Sonia Gronjer, 2025, 2 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam, Préface du livre « Inside Crime and Prison », César Barros Leal, Juruá, Brésil, 2022, 2 pp.
- Chapitres de livres (évalués par un comité de lecture)
- COHEN, Miriam (2025), « Participation in Climate Change Advisory Proceedings: Bridging the Gap between the Judiciary and the International Community », dans The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis, Maria Antônia Tigre et Armando Rocha (dir.), Brill Nijhoff, 199-219 (sous presse).
- COHEN, Miriam, LANOVOY, Vladyslav, MARTINI, Camille, ROCHA, Armando, TIGRE, Maria Antônia, XAVIER, Éneas, (2024) « Reparation for Climate Change at the ECtHR : A Missed Opportunity or the First of Many Decisions to Come? », The Transformation of European Climate Litigation, Maxim Bönnemann et Maria Antônia Tigre (dir.), Verfassungsbooks, 181-183 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam, « The Rise and Fall of Investment Immigration in Canada: The Death of Commoditizing Citizenship? », dans Investment Migration, Dimitry Kochenov (dir.), Bloombury Academic, 23 pp. (sous presse).
- ARIZONA, Yance et COHEN, Miriam (2024) « The Recognition of Customary Land Rights at the Constitutional Court of Indonesia: A Comparative and International Law Assessment », dans Courts and Diversity: Twenty Years of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Bertus (dir.), Brill, 21 pp.
- WOJCIKIEWICZ ALMEIDA, Paula et COHEN, Miriam (2023) « Mapping the ‘Public’ in Public Interest Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Informal Participation at the International Court of Justice », dans Public Interest Litigation, Bendel et Suedi, (dir.), Routledge, 45 pp.
- Luísa HOFFMAN et Miriam COHEN (2023) « Democracia e Revisão Constitucional: Diálogos entre Canadá e Brasil » dans 35 Anos da Constituição Federal : Perspectivas e Desafios do Brasil Contemporâneo, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas – CCJ/UFSC, 12 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2022), « Sob o pretexto da segurança nacional: como as medidas após o 11/09 desamparam os direitos das minorias », dans Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Brésil, pp. 299-316 [traduction].
- COHEN, Miriam (2022) « Au nom de la sécurité nationale : comment les mesures post-11 septembre sapent les droits des minorités », dans Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Brésil, pp. 111-126 [traduction].
- RÉGIS, Catherine, DENIS, Jean-Louis, COHEN, Miriam, LAROUCHE, Pierre, CADEDDU, Stéphanie, et FOUCAULT, Gaëlle (2021), « Stress Test for the World Health Organization (WHO) in a Pandemic World: What Can we Hope for the Future? », dans Pandemic Societies, Catherine Régis, Jean-Louis Denis et Daniel Weinstock (dir.), McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 286-307.
- COHEN, Miriam (2020) « Beyond State Responsibility: The Liability of Individuals for Internationally Wrongful Acts », dans Changing Actors in International Law, Kathleen Claussen, Charles-Emmanuel Côté, Atsuko Kanehara, and Karen N. Scott (dir.), Brilll Nijhoff, pp. 285-303.
- COHEN, Miriam (2020), « The Politics of Reparations at the International Criminal Court », dans The Politics of International Criminal Law, Philipp Kastner et al. (dir.), Brill Nijhoff, pp. 255-275.
- COHEN, Miriam (2018), « The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials Legacy », dans Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals and Courts: Legacy and Promise, Gerd Oberleitner (dir.), Springer, pp. 319-332.
- COHEN, Miriam et MACLEAN, Jason (2017), « Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment and International Environmental Law: Still More Myth than Reality? », dans Human Rights and the Environment, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, Fortaleza, Brésil, pp. 281-294.
- COHEN, Miriam (2016), « The Construction of a Legal Duty to Repair: From States to Individual Perpetrators », dans The Principle of Humanity, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, Fortaleza, Brésil, pp. 257-286.
- COHEN, Miriam (2016), « The Role of Latin America in the Permanent Court of International Justice », dans Latin America and the International Court of Justice, Jean-Marc Sorel et Paula Almeida (dir.), Routledge, 11 pp. [par invitation].
- COHEN, Miriam (2015), « International Criminal Justice, Reparations for Victims and Human Dignity: The Role of Domestic Mechanisms », dans The Respect for Human Dignity, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, Fortaleza, Brésil, pp. 269-284.
- COHEN, Miriam (2014), « Justice Theories and Reparations for Victims of International Crimes », dans Equality and Non-Discrimination, A. Cançado Trindade et C. Barros Leal (dir.), Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, Fortaleza, Brésil, pp. 261-293.
- Articles (évalués par les pairs)
- COHEN, Miriam (2025), « La réparation pour les violations massives des droits humains : une cartographie de la mosaïque de mécanismes nationaux », Revue des droits de l’homme, 24 pp.
- LANOVOY, Vladyslav et COHEN, Miriam (2025), « Climate Change Before International Courts and Tribunals: Reflections on the Role of Public Interest in Advisory Proceedings » Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 97-127 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2024), « Climate Change Proceedings as a Watershed Moment: Public Interest in the Jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea », Chinese (Taiwan) Journal of International Law and Policy, 177-201 pp.
- VINCENT-WRIGHT, Sarah-Michèle, COHEN, Miriam, BEAULAC, Stéphane, (2024), « Mémoire d’intervention devant la Cour Interaméricaine des droits de l’homme », Revue québécoise de droit international, 30 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et TELES DE CARVALHO, Renan (2024), « L’appropriation de la transmission des traumatismes par le droit : le préjudice transgénérationnel dans la jurisprudence de la Cour pénale internationale », Annuaire canadien de droit international, 19 pp.
- RÉGIS, Catherine, FOUCAULT, Gaëlle, LAROUCHE, Pierre, DENIS, Jean-Louis, COHEN, Miriam, (2024), « L’appréhension empirique du leadership normatif d’une organisation internationale : l’exemple de l’organisation mondiale de la santé », Lex Electronica, 19 pp.
- RÉGIS, Catherine, FOUCAULT, Gaëlle, LAROUCHE, Pierre, DENIS, Jean-Louis, COHEN, Miriam, (2024), « Challenges for impact evaluation of WHO’s normative output », Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 3 pp.
- VINCENT-WRIGHT, Sarah-Michèle, COHEN, Miriam, BEAULAC, Stéphane (2024), « L’affaire Bissonnette et le futur du droit pénal international au Canada », Lex Electronica, 28 pp.
- VINCENT-WRIGHT, Sarah-Michèle, COHEN, Miriam, BEAULAC, Stéphane, (2024), « Intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Bissonnette case: assessing the relationship between international and Canadian criminal law », Lex Electronica, 27 pp [traduction].
- DENIS, Jean-Louis, FOUCAULT, Gaëlle, LAROUCHE, Pierre, RÉGIS, Catherine, COHEN, Miriam, GIRARD, Marie-Andrée (2024), « The World Health Organization as an engine of ideational robustness», Policy and Society, 20 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et AFOGO, Olivier (2023), « The Contribution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to International Dispute Settlement in Public Interest Cases », Global Justice Journal, 5 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2023), « Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenges of Safeguarding Human Rights in Times of War », special edition of Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens, essays on Constructing a History of Human Rights in Canada: A Tribute to John Humphrey, 2 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et HOFFMAN, Luísa (2023), « Direitos Humanos e Revisão Judicial: A Atuação das Cortes Constitucionais do Brasil e do Canadá na Promoção de Direitos Homoafetivos », Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos vol. 23, 20 pp.
- RÉGIS, Catherine, LAROUCHE, Pierre, COHEN, Miriam, DENIS, Jean-Louis, FOUCAULT, Gaëlle (2023), « National Compliance During the Pandemic and the World Health Organization: Unfinished Business », Revue Belge de droit international, 50 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2023), « Documentary Evidence », Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, 16 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et COCAN, Silviana (2023), « La justice internationale dans la guerre Russo-Ukrainienne : la complémentarité entre la responsabilité internationale de l’État et la responsabilité pénale individuelle », Revue québécoise de droit international, 31 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et VINCENT-WRIGHT, Sarah-Michèle (2022), « Uma luz nas cinzas? Ensaio sobre violações do direito internacional em tempo de guerre », Revista Jurídica da UFERSA, vol. 6, 24 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam, VINCENT-WRIGHT, Sarah-Michèle (2022), « Conflict Resolution in Human Rights Cases: the Evolving Role of the Supreme Court of Canada », Constitutional Review, vol. 8, 30 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2022), « Reparación de las violaciones de los derechos humanos : ¿qué papel tienen los fondos fiduciarios? Una visión exploratoria de los fondos internacionales », Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, vol. 22, pp. 243-258.
- REGIS, Catherine, FOUCAULT, Gaëlle, VOARINO, Nathalie, COHEN, Miriam, DENIS, Jean-Louis, LAROUCHE, Pierre (2022), « What Happens Once A Norm Is Adopted By The WHO?”, 1 septembre 2022, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health.
- COHEN, Miriam et DAGENAIS, Martin-Olivier (2021) « Between Utopia and Reality: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Canada », 7-1 Constitutional Review, pp. 26-52.
- COHEN, Miriam (2021) « Doing Business Abroad: A Review of Selected Recent Canadian Case-studies on Corporate Accountability for Foreign Human Rights Violations », International Journal of Human Rights, pp. 1499-1514.
- COHEN, Miriam (2020) « In the Name of National Security: How Post 9/11 Counter-terrorism Measures Undermine Human Rights », Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, pp. 261-270 [subventionné par le Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics].
- COHEN, Miriam et BRENNAN, Mariette (2018) « Citizenship by Descent: How Canada’s One-Generation Rule Fails to Comply with International Legal Norms », International Journal of Human Rights, Édition Spéciale sur « Peremptory International Legal Norms and the Democratic Rule of Law », pp. 1302-1317.
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « ICC Elements of Crimes », Oxford International Organizations (OXIO), Oxford University Press, 10 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam et HORTENSIUS, Jasper (2018) « A Human Rights Approach to End of Life? Recent Developments at the European Court of Human Rights », Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos, pp. 193-210.
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « Resolution Concerning the Internal Judicial Practice of the Court », Oxford International Organizations (OXIO), Oxford University Press, 3 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « The Re-Invention of Investment Immigration in Canada and Constructions of Canadian Citizenship », Investment Migration Papers, 34 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court », Oxford International Organizations (OXIO), Oxford University Press, 20 pp.
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « International Human Rights Norms and Maternal Tort Immunity in Canada: Connecting the Dots », International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 21(6), pp. 655-671.
- COHEN, Miriam et KLEIN, Mareike (2017) « Litigating to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean: the Bolivia v. Chile Case », Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Vol. 4(2), pp. 106-118 [cet article a reçu un honoraire].
- COHEN, Miriam (2017) « Judgment on the Appeals Against the ‘Decision Establishing the Principles and Procedures to be Applied to Reparations’ », Oxford International Organizations (OXIO), Oxford University Press, 5 pp.
- Actes de conférences et de colloques (évalués par un comité de lecture)
- COHEN, Miriam, (2024) « Réparation pour les violations sexuelles au sein de la Cour pénale internationale : état des lieux », Actes du colloque, 4e Congrès international de la Chaire Mukwege, 24 pp. (accepté).
- COHEN, Miriam (2023), « Réparation pour le préjudice transgénérationnel dans le cadre de la justice pénale internationale », Actes de colloque ‘La justice transitionnelle en Afrique’, 10 pp. (sous presse).
- COHEN, Miriam (2023), « Droits fondamentaux et justice internationale : Le rétablissement de la démocratie face à la guerre russo-ukrainienne », Actes du 7e Colloque du Lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec, Yvon Blais, 32 pp.
Recognition and Awards
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Admitted to the Global Young Academy (2024)
Scholarly Book Award, Canadian Council on International Law (2022)
Legal competition Award of the Quebec Bar Foundation (2022)
Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and International Reparative Justice
John R. Evans Leaders Fund, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Fellowship – Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Additional Information
- Miriam Cohen a agi à titre de conseillère experte en droit international devant le Tribunal international du droit de la mer
- La professeure Miriam Cohen obtient une subvention du CRSH
- Miriam Cohen nommée au Conseil d’administration de la Société québécoise de droit international (SQDI)
- Livre de la Pre Miriam Cohen publié auprès de la Cambridge University Press
- Nouvelle édition du Précis de droit international public : Stéphane Beaulac et Miriam Cohen
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L'Observatoire du Pr Beaulac interviendra à la Cour suprême dans l'affaire Bissonnette
Intervention à la Cour suprême du Canada
- Une prestigieuse Chaire de Recherche du Canada octroyée à la Pre Miriam Cohen
- Miriam Cohen lauréate du 1er prix du Concours juridique de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec dans la catégorie « Nouvel Auteu
- La Professeure Miriam Cohen remporte le « Prix du livre savant » du Conseil canadien de droit international
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