Education

Courses

College of Europe

Bruges

- Status: professor.
- Programme: European general studies.
- Theme: European protection of human rights and national minorities.
- Periods: 1991-1995 and 2009-2015.

Warsaw (Natolin)

- Status: professor.
- Programme: European interdisciplinary studies.
- Theme: European protection of human rights and national minorities.
- Periods: 1992-1997 and 2008-2016.

  • Annex
    Vincent Berger, Professor

    Contribution of Luis Bouza, academic coordinator at the College of Europe, Davide Denti, former academic assistant at the College of Europe, and Marie-Salomé Rinuy, academic assistant at the College of Europe, to Liber amicorum Vincent Berger (pp. 59-71).

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El Colegio de México – Instituto de Estudios de la Integración Europea (Mexico)

- Status: lecturer.
- Theme: European protection of human rights.
- Period: March 1996.

International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) 

- Status: lecturer.
- Theme: European system of protection of human rights.
- Periods: July 2004 and July 2006.

Robert Schuman University – Institut des hautes études européennes (Strasbourg)

- Status: lecturer.
- Framework: master « Law and European studies – human rights ».
- Theme: case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.
- Period: January 2006.

School of Professional Training of the Bars of the Paris Court of Appeal (Issy-les-Moulineaux)

- Status: lecturer.
- Framework: business course.
- Theme: how to seize the European Court of Human Rights?
- Period: April and October 2018, April and October 2019.

Seminars

College of Europe

Bruges

- Status: professor.
- Programme: European general studies.
- Theme: European protection of human rights and national minorities.
- Period: 1995-2009.

Warsaw (Natolin)

- Status: professor.
- Programme: European interdisciplinary studies.
- Theme: European protection of human rights and national minorities.
- Period: 2003-2008.

El Colegio de México – Instituto de Estudios de la Integración Europea (Mexico)

- Status: lecturer.
- Theme: European protection of human rights.
- Period: March 1996.

University of Nancy 2 – Faculté de droit, sciences économiques et gestion (Nancy)

- Status: lecturer.
- Framework: D.E.S.S. « Litigation ».
- Theme: procedure and practice of the European Court of Human Rights.
- Period: 1997-1998.

University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II

- Status: lecturer.
- Framework: master's degree "Human rights and humanitarian law".
- Theme: European Convention on Human Rights.
- Period: 2016-2017.

Miscellanous

Institutions

  • College of Europe (Bruges): member of the Academic Council (1996-1999).
  • Catholic University of Louvain: member of the Advisory Board of the Centre des droits de l’homme (1996-2000).
  • International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg): member of the Executive Board (2003-2015).
  • Human Rights Institute of the Paris Bar: member of the Advisory Board (since 1997) and of the Executive Board (since 2011).
  • Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur, now Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (section des établissements) (Paris) : member of the Expert Committee (since 2012).
  • University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II: member of the Advisory Board of the Centre de recherche sur les droits de l’homme et le droit humanitaire (CRDH) (since 2015).
  • College of Europe (Bruges and Warsaw): honorary professor (since 2016).

Scientific associations

  • Association des juristes européens (Paris) (1975-1995).
  • Société française pour le droit international (Strasbourg) (since 1988).
  • Association pour la fidélité à la pensée du président René Cassin (Paris) (1990-2000).
  • Association Masaryk (Paris and Prague) (since 1993).
  • Libre Justice (Paris) (1994-2000).
  • Association de formation et de recherches sur les droits de l'homme et le droit communautaire et européen (Strasbourg): member of the Executive Board (2001-2010).
  • International Law Association - French branch (Paris) (since 2014); International Committee on International Human Rights Law (London) (2015-2016); Committe on Humann Rights in Times of Emergency (London) (2020-2022).
  • Association des amis de la Fondation René Cassin (Strasbourg) (since 2015).

Juries

  • Concours européen des droits de l’homme René Cassin (Strasbourg): member of juries (1984-1989) and member of the final jury (1992, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001 and 2002).
  • Diploma of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg): member of the oral jury (2007, 2009, 2010 and 2013) and chairman of the jury for the award of the diploma (2007).
  • Thesis defense PhD in law (Paris): member of juries of the University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II (2013 and 2014).

Declined invitations to teach

France
- Institut d’études politiques de Strasbourg (1999).
- Faculté de droit, d’économie et de gestion d’Angers (2001).

- Centre de formation professionnelles des avocats d'Alsace (2002).

Tunisia
- Faculté des sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales de Tunis (1999).

Slovenia
- The Graduate School of Government and European Affairs (Ljubljana) (1999).

Turkey
- Galatasaray University (Istanbul) (2006).

Russia
- MGIMO (Moscow) (2006).

Declined invitations to assess

  • University of Cergy-Pontoise (2014).
  • University of Toulouse 1 Capitole (2014).
  • University of Lumière Lyon II (2014).