Current position
Director of the International Criminal Law Center, Associate Professor in Civil and Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse
Expert UNODC/UNOPS
Director of the International Criminal Law Center, Associate Professor in Civil and Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse
Expert UNODC/UNOPS
Employment History
Job title:
Director
of the International Criminal Law Center
Name of employer: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I, Faculté de droit, France
Duration: Since April 2005
Name of employer: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I, Faculté de droit, France
Duration: Since April 2005
- Establishment of the new Degree in
International Criminal Law.
- Organization and
provision of substantive elements for a Specialised Training Program in
international criminal law for judges and prosecutors.
- Supervisory functions: overall monitoring of
the new Degree in International Criminal Law, selections of the various
substantive teaching activities and organization of the final
examination, certification of the degree qualification
Job title:
Associate
Professor in Criminal Law
Name of employer: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I, Faculté de droit, France
Staff supervised: 3 Assistants in criminal law
Duration: Since September 1998
Name of employer: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I, Faculté de droit, France
Staff supervised: 3 Assistants in criminal law
Duration: Since September 1998
- Teaching international criminal law and international legal instruments, including the universal instruments against terrorism, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yougoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- Teaching General criminal law, criminal procedure, special criminal law and
business criminal law.
Job title:
Consultant,
Terrorism Prevention Branch
Name of employer: UNOPS/United Nations Office on Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Duration: Since July 2004
Name of employer: UNOPS/United Nations Office on Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Duration: Since July 2004
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Drafting a manual for practitioners on the implementation of
the
universal instruments against terrorism as well as
international
cooperation in criminal matters related to those instruments.
The manual will be based on the TPB/UNODC Guide for the implementation on the universal instruments against terrorism. The first draft of the manual will serve as an initial proposal on the conceptualisation, outline and some readily available preliminary text for the training manual, to be used as the basis for substantives consultations among experts, to be sought by TPB, including through a meeting of experts on the training manual’s substantive design and content (overall orientation, approach, substantive and textual content).
The manual will be based on the TPB/UNODC Guide for the implementation on the universal instruments against terrorism. The first draft of the manual will serve as an initial proposal on the conceptualisation, outline and some readily available preliminary text for the training manual, to be used as the basis for substantives consultations among experts, to be sought by TPB, including through a meeting of experts on the training manual’s substantive design and content (overall orientation, approach, substantive and textual content).
- Organizing the second meeting of the Group of Experts for the establishment of the “UNODC Manual on international cooperation for the investigation and the prosecution of terrorism”, Vancouver, Canada, International Centre for criminal law reform and criminal justice policy, May 2006
- Organization and provision of substantive elements for a National Expert Workshop on the ratification and implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, as well as on international cooperation against terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in Nouakchott, Mauritania: the Workshop was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Justice of Mauritania (18-20 April 2006).
- Providing a substantive input in a National Seminar on combating the financing of terrorism and on international cooperation against terrorism prescribed in the Universal Legal Instruments pertaining to combating Terrorism in Sana’a, Yemen: the Workshop was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Justice of Yemen (6-8 March 2006)
- Providing a substantive input in a Workshop on the reform of Rumania penal code and Rumania penal procedure code: the Workshop was jointly organized by the Ministry of Justice of Rumania and the French Embassy in Rumania (January 2006)
- Providing a substantive input in a Regional Expert Workshop Regional Workshop on the promotion of International Cooperation mechanisms prescribed in the Universal Legal Instruments pertaining to combating Terrorism organized by UNODC (Cairo, Egypt, 27-27 December 2005)
- Organization and provision of substantive elements for a workshop on international cooperation against terrorism and promotion of regional cooperation in criminal matters in Antananarivo, Madagascar: the Workshop was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Justice of Madagascar. The main objective of the Workshop was to share information and practical experience in matters related to methods and techniques on combating terrorism, including the legal aspects related there (6-9 December 2005).
- Providing substantive elements for the training of judges and prosecutors, designing the framework of the manual including practical charts and comparative study on advantages and deficiencies of various criminal laws and criminal justice systems.
- Organization and substantive preparation of three technical assistance missions for (1) the revision of national legislation for Algeria, Madagascar, Mauritania for reviewing and (2) training of criminal justice systems practitioners on international cooperation in criminal matters related to terrorism
- Drafting
of the "UNODC Guide for the implementation on the universal instruments
against terrorism":
The major objective of this legislative guide is to assist members states in the ratification, legislative incorporation and placement of the universal instruments against terrorism. The guide was mainly written for the consideration of policy decision makers and for members of parliaments who are in charge of drafting and-enacting those laws. It also aims at facilitating the negotiation and implementation of treaties, bilateral or multilateral agreements relating to international co-operation in penal matters which is a decisive tools in the fight against terrorism.
This guide was distributed both during the 11th Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Congress in Bangkok in April 2005 as well as during the 14th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice which was held in Vienna 18-28 May 2005.
The guide has been published as an official UN document in English and French and is expected to be available in the other UN languages. - Organizing and providing the substantive elements for the “Meeting of the Group of Experts for the establishment of the manual for practitioners on the implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism”, Siracusa, Italy, ISISC, 27-29 June 2005
- Providing a substantive input in the Regional Ministerial Conference of the French- speaking States of Africa for the ratification and the implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols (Port-Louis, Mauritius, October 25-27, 2004).
- Providing a substantive input in a Regional Expert Workshop organized by UNODC on the ratification and implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols the UN Convention against Corruption as well as on international cooperation against terrorism, transnational organized crime and corruption as well as on the drafting of reports to the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the United Nations Security Council in Praïa, Cape Verde.
- Organization and provision of substantive elements for a workshop on international cooperation against terrorism and promotion of regional cooperation in criminal matters in Cairo, Egypt: the Workshop was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Justice of Egypt. The main objective of the Workshop was to share information and practical experience in matters related to methods and techniques on combating terrorism, including the legal aspects related there.
- Organization and provision of substantive elements for a National Expert Workshop on the ratification and implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, the UN Convention against corruption as well as on international cooperation against terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption and in promoting regional cooperation in criminal matters to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: the Workshop was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Justice of Burkina Faso. The main objective of the Workshop was to share information and practical experience in matters related to methods and techniques on combating terrorism and transnational organized crime, including the legal aspects related there.
- Providing a substantive input in a National Expert Workshop on the ratification and implementation of the universal instruments against terrorism and on the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols , in Lomé, Togo.
Job title:
Graduate
assistant in criminal law
Name of employer:
Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse I,
Faculté de droit, France
Duration:
October 1992- September1998
- Teaching General criminal law, criminal procedure
Select
list of publications
Title of Publication:
Guide for the
implementation on the universal instruments against terrorism
Journal/Publisher: United Nations, UNODC
Date of Publication: 2006
Journal/Publisher: United Nations, UNODC
Date of Publication: 2006
Member of the permanent team of the Dalloz Publishers in charge of summaries and commentaries on the judgements of the courts in criminal law, especially International criminal law.
Journal/Publisher:
Dalloz
Date of Publication: published twice yearly since 1999 , includes :
Date of Publication: published twice yearly since 1999 , includes :
- TCE. 21 septembre 2005 : Yusuf et Al Barakaat International Foundation : .Hierarchy of the national and international standards, resolutions of the United Nations
- Crim. 4 January 2005: Sources of the law, hierarchy of the national and international standards, resolutions of the United Nations, Humanitarian International Law, principles of legality of warrants of arrest, illegal sequestration, arbitrary detention, June 2005
- Crim. 23 November 2004: Sources of law, international customary law, international jurisdiction, immunity of jurisdiction of the Foreign States, immunity of organizations emanating of the State, endangering life of others and complicity of pollution, June 2005
- Crim. 17 June 2003, the Aussaresses case, Crime against humanity and amnesty, 2004, n° 5
- Crim. 23 October 2002, Universal Jurisdiction and related Jurisdiction ; Amnesty and International Crimes, 2004, n° 5.
- Crim. 21 February 2002, Wilful violence, 2003, n° 4
- Crim. 6 May 2002, Threatening behaviour, 2003, n° 4
- Court of Appeals of Toulouse 15 February 2001, Defining the notion of refugee, Exemption from execution of order of escort to the frontier by police, 2003, n° 3
- Conseil Constitutionnel, 22 January 1999, Ratification of the Treaty of Rome, instituting an International Criminal Court, n° 11.
Title of Publication:
Terrorism criminal
acts in the French penal legislation
Journal/Publisher: Jurisclasseur
Date of Publication: To be published in December 2006
Title of Publication: The universal fight against terrorism, moral valious and rule of law
Journal/Publisher: in Publication of the Faculty of law of Toulouse: “Towards new legal norms”
Date of Publication: January 2006
Title of Publication: Victims and terrorism
Journal/Publisher: International Review of Penal Law
Date of Publication: June 2006
Title of Publication: Compensation of victims of terrorist acts
Journal/Publisher: Lamy, Law of liability
Date of Publication: July 2005
Title of Publication: Terrorism
Book
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2003
Title of Publication: Training course for the Bar competitive examination: a practical test in criminal law,
Collective work
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2003
Title of Publication: Seminars in criminal law and criminal procedure,
Collective work
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2001
Journal/Publisher: Jurisclasseur
Date of Publication: To be published in December 2006
Title of Publication: The universal fight against terrorism, moral valious and rule of law
Journal/Publisher: in Publication of the Faculty of law of Toulouse: “Towards new legal norms”
Date of Publication: January 2006
Title of Publication: Victims and terrorism
Journal/Publisher: International Review of Penal Law
Date of Publication: June 2006
Title of Publication: Compensation of victims of terrorist acts
Journal/Publisher: Lamy, Law of liability
Date of Publication: July 2005
Title of Publication: Terrorism
Book
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2003
Title of Publication: Training course for the Bar competitive examination: a practical test in criminal law,
Collective work
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2003
Title of Publication: Seminars in criminal law and criminal procedure,
Collective work
Journal/Publisher: Ellipses
Date of Publication: 2001
Research activities, Conferences and Contributions :
- “International Cooperation in Criminal Matters”, Koweit City, Institut of Legal Studies, May 2006.
- Organization of the Conference "Criminal law of the United Nations, towards a Universal Penal Awareness", Toulouse, march 2004, under the supervision of the International Criminal Law Center , University of Toulouse.
- « Compensation of victims of terrorism » : Seminar on Access to Justice, University of Tunis, 15, 16, 17 January 2004, under the supervision of Professor Bel Haj Hammouda, Seminar organized in collaboration with Tunis I and Fondation Hans Seidel.
- « The Kadhafi Case : a denial of international criminal law » : Contribution to the seminar organized on 5 February 2002 by the association SOS Attentats.
- « The Offence of Terrorism » : Seminar on Topicality of Book IV of the Criminal Code, University of Toulouse, 2001, under the supervision of the Institute of Criminology of Toulouse.
- « The Issue of Torture » : Seminar on The body seized by the law, organized by the the University of Toulouse on 3 and 4 November 1994, under the supervision of Professor Marie-Hélène Douchez.
- « Crime against humanity in the new Criminal Code » : Seminar on The new French criminal law, organized by the Faculty of Canon Law of Toulouse in November 1994, Publications of the Seminar, 1995, Publications de la Faculté de Droit Canonique de Toulouse.
Professional Activities in Academic, Civil, Public and International Affairs
- Deputy Director of the International Review of Penal Law
- Member of the Board and Chief Editor, International Review of Penal Law
- Senior Advisor, Regional Training Center, Bar Association of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse, Judicial Studies Institute of the Toulouse University
- Member of the Jury, Concours René Cassin, Human Rights, Strasbourg
University Education
Qualification:
Seminar
for specialists
in international criminal law (50 h),.
Institution: ISISC (Higher Institute of Criminal Science), Siracusa, Italy
Field of study: International Criminal Law, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Dates of study: September 2003
Qualification: Accreditation to supervise research activities
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Civil and criminal law, criminal sciences, international criminal law
Dates of study: June 2002
Qualification: Doctorate in Law (PHD), with high honours and special awards of the jury,
authorization to publish the thesis in its entirety, nominated for Thesis Award.
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Subject-matter of the thesis : “Terrorism : plans for a legal study”
Dates of study: 1993- 1997
Qualification: Master in criminal science with high honours, first in the group.
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Criminal law, Dissertation : The Touvier Case, Analysis of a crime against humanity
Dates of study: 1991- 1992
Qualification: Four-year course in private law, with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Civil and criminal law
Dates of study: 1990- 1991
Qualification: LL.B., with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1989 – 1990
Qualification: Two-year course in law, with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1987 – 1989
Qualification: High school diploma, major area of work: economy
Final examination of the secondary degree with honours.
Institution: High school, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1986 – 1987
Institution: ISISC (Higher Institute of Criminal Science), Siracusa, Italy
Field of study: International Criminal Law, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Dates of study: September 2003
Qualification: Accreditation to supervise research activities
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Civil and criminal law, criminal sciences, international criminal law
Dates of study: June 2002
Qualification: Doctorate in Law (PHD), with high honours and special awards of the jury,
authorization to publish the thesis in its entirety, nominated for Thesis Award.
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Subject-matter of the thesis : “Terrorism : plans for a legal study”
Dates of study: 1993- 1997
Qualification: Master in criminal science with high honours, first in the group.
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Criminal law, Dissertation : The Touvier Case, Analysis of a crime against humanity
Dates of study: 1991- 1992
Qualification: Four-year course in private law, with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: Civil and criminal law
Dates of study: 1990- 1991
Qualification: LL.B., with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1989 – 1990
Qualification: Two-year course in law, with honours
Institution: Faculty of Law, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1987 – 1989
Qualification: High school diploma, major area of work: economy
Final examination of the secondary degree with honours.
Institution: High school, Toulouse, France
Field of study: General Law
Dates of study: 1986 – 1987
Language Skills
French:
mother tongue
English: good working knowledge
English: good working knowledge
Computer skills:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Lotus Notes, Internet and other office management applications.
Personal Details
Full name:
Marie-Hélène Gozzi
Date of Birth: 21 October 1969
Nationality: France
Work address: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, Place Anatole France, 31042 Toulouse Cedex 09, France
Date of Birth: 21 October 1969
Nationality: France
Work address: Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, Place Anatole France, 31042 Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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