Dr.  annyssa bellal

annyssa.bellalnuigalway.ie

Annyssa Bellal is a lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway. She holds a PhD in public international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and an LL.M in Philosophy of Law and History of Human Rights from the University of Lyon and Grenoble (France). Prior to joining the academic staff of the Centre, she was a research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights and a Hauser Global Law School visiting scholar at New York University. She also acted as a legal adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross and for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs within the Directorate of Public international law.

Her teaching interests are in the field of international criminal law and international humanitarian law. She is engaged in research projects related to the negotiation of a future Arms trade treaty, immunities and international crimes and the international law obligations of armed non state actors.

Publications

Book 

Immunités et violations graves des droits humains. Vers une évolution de l’ordre juridique international ? Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2011.

Articles

’The 2009 Resolution of the Institute of International Law on Immunity and International Crimes’, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2011, 227-241. 

’Enhancing respect for international law by armed non state actors’(co-author), Göttingen Journal of international law, vol.3, n°1, 2011, 175-197.

'The International Law Applicable to Armed Non State Actors in Afghanistan' (co-author), International Review of the Red Cross, n°881, 2011, 1-33. (Winner of the International Geneva Award 2011 delivered by the Swiss Network of International Studies) 

’A human right to resist’ (co-author), www.opendemocracy.org. 3 May 2011,

“Towards engagement, compliance and accountability” (co-author), Forced Migration Review, Issue 37, March 2011, 4-7. 

“The concept of combatants under international humanitarian law”, (co-author), in Bhuiyan, J., Chowdhury, A.R. and Doswald-Beck (eds), International Humanitarian Law: an Anthology, LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa, 2009.

Forthcoming publications

“L’interdiction des bombes à sous-munitions en droit international humanitaire”, (co-author), in Chetail (dir.), V. Défis et mutations du droit des conflits armés, Bruxelles, Bruylant, forthcoming, 2012. 

'The international crime of aggression, latest developments', to be published in Kolb, R. and Scalia, D. (eds), International Criminal Law, (second edition), Hart Publishers, 2012. 

'Evaluating the use of force during the Arab spring', (co-author), to be published in the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2012.

Woking papers and expert report  

’Rules of Engagement. Protecting Civilians through Dialogue with Armed Non-State Actors’, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 2011. Expert Report commissioned by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

'The international legal issues surrounding a future Arms Trade Treaty (Chapter 4: International Criminal Law), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Expert Report commissioned by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament and Research (UNIDIR), 2011.

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