Annex IV
Biographical data form of candidates to human rights treaty bodies
Name and first name:
Date and place of birth:
MOTOC Iulia Antoanella
20 august 1967, Timişoara, Romania
Working languages:
French, Romanian (native speaker), English, Spanish, Russian,
Italian, German
Current position/function:
Judge, Constitutional Court of Romania
Professor of International Law, University of Bucharest: http://www.iuliamotoc.com,
http://ro20.mae.ro/biographies/romanians-representing-romania-worldwide-iulia-motoc/.
Director, European Master Human Rights, Venice
Member, UN Human Rights Committee
Member of the Bureau of the UN Human Rights Committee
Lawyer, Bucharest Bar – position reserved
Main professional activities:
Judge, Bucharest Court, 1990-1996
Member and alternate member of the UN Sub-commission for the Promotion and Protection
of Human Rights (1996-2007)
President of the UN Sub-commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
(2000-2001)
Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights for the Democratic Republic of
Congo (2001-2004)
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and genetics (2003-2007)
President of the UN Working Group on the Administration of Justice (2002-2007)
Member, Working Group for Indigenous Peoples, United Nations (2000-2004)
Member, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, United Nations (1999-2000),
(2003)
Member Social Forum, United Nations (2005)
Member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of
National minorties (1998-2004), (2008-present)
Educational background:
Ph. D in Philosophy (Moral Philosophy), University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy
Habilitation in Law, University Paris XI, “Jean Monnet” Department
S.J..D. (Doctorat) in International Public Law University Aix-Marseille III, School of Law
(tres bien avec les felicitations du jury)
LL.B, University of Bucharest, School of Law (9, 91/10)
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
Judge ad-hoc at the European Court for Human Rights
Director, (Romania), European Master of Human Rights and Democratization, European
Intrerdisciplinary Center for Human Rights and Democratization, Venice
Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Comparative Law
(1998-2004), (2008-present)
Member, Editorial Board, East European and Russian Yearbook of International and Member
Scientific Board, European Yearbook of Human Rights
Member, Commission Internationale des Juristes
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President, Association Prix Femmes d’Europe,Romania (2000-2002)
Member, European Agency for Human Rights (2008- present)
Yale University School of Law (2004-2007), Senior Schell Fellow
European Institute Florence (2006), Special Invited Professor Academy of European Law
Deputy Dean, Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest, 1998
List of most recent publications in the field:
The International law of genetic discrimination in T. Murphy (ed) New Technologies and
Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2009
Conceptions of pluralism and international law in E. Jouannet, H.R. Fabri,V. Tomkiewitz
Proceedings of the ESIL A quoi ca sert le droit international, Hart, Oxford, 2008.
PLAIDOYER POUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME, Centre de droit de l’homme, Universite
Paris Panteon Assas II, Universite de Bucarest, 2008
Women rights as human rights from universal to regional, essays in honor of Justice
Bhagwati, (ed) , University of Bucharest, EMA Venice, Afras Academy, India, 2009
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