Iulia Antoanella Motoc

Function(s)

• Judge at the International Criminal Court
• Professor at the University of Bucharest

Area(s) of Expertise

• General international law
• Human rights
• Theory of international law
• Use of force

Biography

Iulia Motoc holds a doctorate in public international law from the University of Aix-Marseille III and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bucharest. She has been a visiting professor/researcher at NYU University (2002-2004), Yale School of Law (2003-2007), European Institute of Florence (2007), Institut Wissenschaft vom Menschen (1999), Pantheon-Sorbonne University (2012-2013), St. Thomas University Miami (2001-2004), UN Tokyo (2008), EIUC Venice (2011-2012), Hague Academy of International Law( 2024).

During the 90s, she was a judge at the Bucharest Court, in 2010 she was elected judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania and in 2013 she was elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights until 2023. In December 2023, Judge Motoc was elected judge at the International Criminal Court.

In the field of international law, Iulia Motoc was a member of the first Board of the European Society of International Law, academic director of the Romanian Diplomatic Institute, ICSID arbitrator (2008-2013). She was also a member of the International Law Association, member of the Board of International Law Professors and Practitioners, Melbourne University, Member of the Scientific Council TMC Asser, Netherlands. Iulia Motoc is the founder of the International Law Group at the European Court of Human Rights.

In the field of international criminal Law, Motoc was appointed in 2001 as Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this capacity, she visited the Democratic Republic of Congo in a conflict zone and denounced the massive human rights violations cited in particular by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

In the field of human rights, Iulia Motoc became a member of the UN Subcommission on Human Rights in 1996, first as an alternate and in 2000-2001 she was Chair of the UN Subcommission on Human Rights. She co-authored the working paper on free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples, which was incorporated into the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Motoc was the co-author of the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty. She was the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the human genome, authoring the first UN reports in the field of genetics (2004-2007). Motoc was a member and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (2006-2013) Iulia Motoc was elected member of the Advisory Committee for the Protection of National Minorities (1998-2004) and (2008-2012). She was a member of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2010-2012)

Selected publications

1. Iulia Motoc, Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (co-editor), Oxford University Press, 2021
2. Iulia Motoc, The ECHR and General International Law, Oxford University Press, 2018 (co-editor ),
3. Iulia Motoc, New Developments in Constitutional Law, Eleven International Publishing, 2019(co-editor)
4. Iulia Motoc, The impact of the European Court of Human Rights and the case-law of democratic change and development in Eastern Europe, editor with Ineta Ziemele, Cambridge University, 2016;
5. Iulia Motoc, Internationalist doctrines during real communism in Europe, UMR Comparative Law, Sorbonne, Society of Comparative Legislation Publishing House (co-editor Emmanuelle Jouannet), 2012
6. Iulia Moțoc, About Democracy in an United Europe, Humanitas Publishing House( in Romanian)
7. Iulia Moțoc, Foreign Policy Analysis( co-editor), Polirom Publishing House( in Romanian)
8. Iulia Motoc, The International Law of Genetic Discrimination: The Power of “Never Again” in Thérèse Murphy (ed.), New Technologies and Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009;
9. Iulia Motoc, Conception of Pluralism and International Law in E. Jouannet, H.R. Fabri V. Tomcievitz, ESIL procedures, Selected Procedures of European Society of International Law, What’s the use for International Law, Hart, Oxford, 2008;
10. Iulia Motoc, Interpreter la guerre, les exceptions de l’article 2&4 de la Charte de l’ONU devant le Conseil de Sécurité, Babel, 1997.