Monique Chemillier-Gendreau is a jurist and professor emerita of public law and political science at the University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII). As a committed practitioner involved in numerous non-profit activities, she is the author of several books and around a hundred articles in journals or edited volumes, advocating for a critical approach to international law. She is notably the honorary president of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights, which she helped found.
She also possesses significant practical experience with international courts and has argued cases on behalf of several organizations, notably before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the United Nations in The Hague. She has been involved in the settlement of numerous international legal disputes between states and has participated in various proceedings before international tribunals and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), notably cases involving the Democratic Republic of Congo-Belgium, Senegal-Guinea Bissau, Algeria-Libya, Israel-Palestine, Laos-Vietnam, Laos-Cambodia, and Vietnam-China.
She is a member of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal and has also provided legal guidance to several non-profit movements in France and internationally.
Monique has contributed to the work of Promediation’s teams since 2015, notably providing advisory support on international law in the various mediation processes conducted by the organization.