Djamchid Momtaz (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

 

 

 

                            Personal data

 

Born on 18 June 1942

Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University, since 1974

Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1984

Associate Member of the Institute of International Law (Institut de droit international)

Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations since 2000

Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross Group of International Advisers, 2004-2007

Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law, 2004-2010

 

                            Academic qualifications

 

        • Law Degree with a major in Public Law (licence en droit public), Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Paris, 1966

        • Diploma of the Institute of Political Studies (Institut d’Etudes politiques), University of Paris, 1968 (International Relations Section)

        • Doctorate (Doctorat d’Etat) in Public Law, University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Paris II, 1971

 

                            Teaching assignments abroad

 

        • Assistant, University of Paris X (Nanterre), 1969-1974

        • Visiting Professor, “Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales de Paris”, 1975‑1976 and 1987-1988

        • Visiting Professor, University of Paris X (Nanterre), 1985-1986, 1990-1991, 1992-1993

        • Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble II (Mendes-France), 1989-1990

        • Visiting Professor, University of Paris XI (Jean Monnet), 1995-1996, 1997‑1998

        • Visiting Professor, University of Paris XIII (Villetaneuse), 1995-1996, 1997‑1998, 1999-2000

        • Visiting Professor, University of Caen (Basse-Normandie), 1998-1999, 1999‑2000, 2003-2004

        • Visiting Professor, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), 2000-2001, 2004-2005

        • Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 1990-1991

        • Visiting Professor, University of Stockholm, 2000

        • Series of lectures delivered at the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991

        • Lectures for the Fellowship Programmes in International Law, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, The Hague, July-August 1991

        • Lectures on International Law and Mass Destruction Weapons at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, twenty-fourth annual session, September 1996

        • Lectures on International Criminal Court at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, twenty-seventh annual session, September 1999

        • Lectures on International Humanitarian Law, Military Course Programme, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, October 2000

        • Taught at the Hague Academy of International Law on International Humanitarian Law Applicable to Non-International Armed Conflicts, 2001

        • Lectures on the Protection of Civilians during Armed Conflicts at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, thirtieth annual session, September 2002

        • Lectures on the Protection of Civilians and Displaced Persons, organized by the International Organization for Migration, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia and Universidad of Nicaragua, Managua, March 2004

 

                            Academic conferences and symposiums

 

        • Participated in a Symposium on Aspects de la politique étrangère de l’Iran et de la France, organized by The Centre d’Etudes de politique étrangère de Paris and The Centre des Hautes Etudes Internationales de l’Université de Téhéran, Paris, 6-7 February 1976, and delivered a paper on “l’Iran et le droit international”, published by the Center for International Studies, Tehran University, October 1976

        • Participated in a Colloquium on le Golfe Persique et l’Océan Indien, organized by the Center for International Studies of Tehran University, Abadan,
26-27 February 1977, and delivered a paper on les détroits de l’Océan Indien et les grandes puissances, published by the Center for International Studies of Tehran University, September 1977

        • Member of Experts Group on the Humanitarian Law applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. International Institute of Humanitarian Law in order to implement the Plan of Action on the Promotion of the Law of Armed Conflicts at Sea, San Remo, Italy (meetings: Geneva 1993, Livorno 1994)

        • Member of the Committee of Legal Experts on National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, De Paul University, College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, The Hague 1994

        • Associated with the United Nations University Programme Multilateralism and the United Nations System, 1990-1995

        • Participated in the Seminar on International Protection of Refugees, organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Ispahan, 8‑10 January 1995, and delivered a paper on Human Rights and Refugees

        • Participated in the thirtieth Annual Session of the Law of the Sea Institute (Hawaii), held in Al Aïn, United Arab Emirates, May 1996, and delivered a paper on the Legal Protection of the Environment under the Hague and Geneva Conventions

        • Participated in the thirty-first Annual Session of the Law of the Sea Institute (Miami) 1998 and delivered a paper on the Straits of Hormoz

        • Member of Experts Group on the Process for the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, New-York, 7-9 April 1999

        • Member of Experts Group on the Humanitarian Protection in
Non-International Armed Conflicts, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, 1999

        • Member joint United Nations Environment Programme and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Experts Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment, Geneva, January 2002

 

                            Scientific societies

 

        • Member of the Société française pour le droit international

        • Member of the International Law Association, Committee on Maritime Neutrality

        • Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy

        • Member of the Scientific Council of the Review Collection “Espaces et Ressources maritimes”, published by the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le droit des activités maritimes, Institut du Droit de la Paix et de Développement, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

        • Member of the Board of Editors of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (T. M. C. Asser Institute, Netherlands)

        • Honourary Member of the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki

 

                            Offices held

 

        • Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Tehran, 1979-1982

        • Member of the Steering Committee for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Study on International Customary Law, 1996-2004

        • Member of the Commission for the Settlement of Disputes related to Confidentiality, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 1999-2004


                            Official missions to international and regional conferences

 

        • Member of the Delegation of Iran to the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (second to eleventh sessions), 1974-1982

        • Member of the Delegation of Iran to the Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, 1974 (Tehran), 2000 (Cairo), 2002 (Abuya), 2003 (Seoul) and 2004 (Bali)

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Preparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (second to eleventh sessions), 1984-1993

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Iran-Iraq Peace Talks, 1988-1989

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, Geneva, 1993

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Preparatory Commission for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, fourth session, The Hague, 1993

        • Member of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts to study Practical Means of Promoting Full Respect of International Humanitarian Law and Compliance with that Law, Geneva, 1995

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Conferences on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, second session, New York, 1993, and sixth session, New York, 1996

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations General Assembly (Sixth Committee) from 44th to 59th session

        • Represented the Islamic Republic of Iran at the International Court of Justice during the public sitting in the Case of Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflicts, November 1995

        • Member of the Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, 15 June-17 July 1998

        • Member of the Government Experts’ Consultation Meeting on the Red Cross and Red Crescent Emblem, Geneva, 31 August-2 September 1999

        • Counsel and Advocate of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Oil Platforms Case (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) Judgment of 6 November 2003

 

                            Collective works in French and English on International Law

 

        • Les problèmes de la délimitation du plateau continental du Golfe Persique, in Essays on International Law, 20th Anniversary, Commemorative Volume published by the Secretariat of Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi, 1976.

        • L’évolution du droit de la mer de la Conférence de Genève de 1958 à celle de 1975, in Droit de la mer, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1977.

        • The High Sea, in R. J. Dupuy and D. Vignes (Editors), Handbook on the New Law of the Sea, chap. 7, vol. I, Hague Academy of International Law, Nijhoff, 1991.

        • Les forces navales et l’impératif de sécurité dans la Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer, in Essays on the Law of the Sea, B. Vukas (Editor), Zagreb, 1985.

        • Le statut juridique du Golfe Persique in the Legal Regime of Enclosed and Semi-enclosed Seas: the Particular Case of the Mediterranean, B. Vukas (Editor), Zagreb, 1988.

        • Le statut juridique du Chatt-el-Arab, in Actualités juridiques et politiques en Asie, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1988.

        • La Commission préparatoire de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins et du Tribunal du droit de la mer, in Droit de la mer 2, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1990.

        • Les obligations des investisseurs pionniers enregistrés par la Commission préparatoire, de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins et du Tribunal international du droit de la mer, in Essays on the New Law of the Sea, No. 2, B. Vukas (Editor), Zagreb, 1990.

        • The Inherent Right of Individual Self-Defence in the Iran-Iraq War: the Politics of Aggression, F. Rajaee (Editor), University Press of Florida, 1993.

        • A Commentary on Iranian Practice in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the Law of Naval Warfare, Andrea de Guttry and Natalino Ronzitti (Editors), Cambridge, Grotius Publications Ltd, 1993.

        • La juridiction larvée des Etats côtiers sur les stocks de poissons chevauchants et grands migrateurs situés au-delà de leurs zones économiques, in the Proceedings of the Qatar International Law Conference, 1994, International Legal Issues Arising under the United Nations Decade of International Law, Dr. Najeeb Al Nauimi and Richard Messe (Editors), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

        • Le régime de transfert des substances chimiques dans la Convention sur l’interdiction des armes chimiques, in the Convention on the Prohibition and Elimination of Chemical Weapons: a Breakthrough in Multilateral Disarmament, Daniel Bardonnet (Editor), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

        • The United Nations and the Protection of the Environment: from Stockholm to Rio de Janeiro, Political Geography, vol. 15, Issue 3-4, 1996.

        • Les Nations Unies et les Commissions d’établissement des faits, in the Proceedings of the United Nations Congress of Public International Law (13‑17 March 1995), International Law as a Language for International Relations, Kluwer International Law, 1996.

        • The Implementation of Security Council Resolution 598, in Iranian Perspectives on the Iran-Iraq War, Farhang Rajaee (Editor), University Press of Florida, 1997.


        • Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones in Africa and Asia, in Essays on International Law, Fortieth Anniversary, Commemorative Volume, prepared by the Secretariat of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi, 1997.

        • National Measures to Implement International Humanitarian Law, in Report of the Special Meeting on the Inter-related Aspects between the International Criminal Court and International Humanitarian Law, Tehran, 5 May 1997, prepared by the secretariat of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, New Delhi, 1997.

        • The United Nations and the Protection of the Environment, in the United Nations at Work, Martin Ira Glassner (Editor), Praeger, 1998.

        • Intervention des Etats-Unis dans les affaires iraniennes et le requête de l’Iran devant le Tribunal des différends irano-américains, in Sanctions unilatérales, mondialisation du commerce et ordre juridique international, à propos des lois Helms-Burton et d’Amato Kennedy, Habib Ghérari et Sandra Szureck (sous la direction de) CEDIN Paris X Nanterre, Cahiers internationaux, Montchrestien, 1998.

        • Le droit international des armes de destruction massive, in: International Law at the turn of the Century: Thesaurus Acroasium, vol. XXVII, Sakkoulas Publications, Thessaloniki, 1998.

        • Le recours à l’arme nucléaire et la protection de l’environnement: l’apport de la Cour internationale de Justice, in International Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Philippe Sands (Editors), Cambridge University Press, 1999.

        • A Study of Multilateralism in Iran: the United Nations and Iran-Iraq Conflict, in Multilateralism in Multinational Perspective. Viewpoints from Different Languages and Literatures, James P. Sewell (Editor), United Nations University Press, 2000.

        • La piraterie en haute mer et les infractions liées aux activités maritimes, in Droit international pénal, H. Ascensio, E. Decaux et A. Pellet (sous la direction de) (Cedin, Paris X), A. Pedone, Paris, 2000.

        • War Crimes in Non-International Armed Conflict Under the Statute of the International Criminal Court, in Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, vol. 2, 1999.

        • La compatibilité des sanctions du Conseil de Sécurité avec le droit international humanitaire in United Nations Sanctions and International Law, Vera Gowlland (Editor), Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London/ Boston, 2001.

        • La libre navigation à l’épreuve des conflits armés, in La mer et son droit, Mélanges offerts à Laurent Lucchini et Jean-Pierre Quéneudec, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 2003.

        • Did the Court Miss an Opportunity to Denounce the Erosion of the Principle Prohibiting the Use of Force? in the Yale Journal of International Law Symposium, Reflections on the ICJ’s Oil Platforms Decision, Volume 29, Number 2, Summer 2004.

                            Articles on International Law in French

 

        • Le fond des mers et des océans: dernière frontière de l’homme, Après-demain, No. 149, Paris, December, 1972.

        • Vers un nouveau régime juridique des pêcheries adjacentes, Revue Générale de Droit International public, tome 78, Paris, 1974.

        • Partager équitablement un patrimoine commun, Journal «Le Monde», Paris, 20 June 1974.

        • Du droit de passage dans le détroit de Tiran, Revue égyptienne de Droit international, vol. 30, 1974.

        • La question des droits à la troisième Conférence des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XX, Paris, 1974.

        • La mer et l’égalité entre les Etats, Iranian Review of International Relations, No. 2, Tehran, 1975.

        • Le régime de la navigation dans le canal de Suez, Iranian Review of International Relations, No. 5-6, Tehran, 1976.

        • Les ressources biologiques de l’Océan lndien: un nouvel enjeu économique, Iranian Review of International Relations, No. 8, Tehran, 1976.

        • Une convention pour la protection du golfe Persique contre la pollution, Iranian Review of International Relations, No. 11-12, Tehran, 1978.

        • Le droit international dans un monde hétérogène, Iranian Review of International Relations, No. 13-14, Tehran, 1979.

        • Le droit, la justice et les tyrans, Journal «Le Monde» Paris, 29 November 1979.

        • La Commission préparatoire de l’Autorité internationale des fonds marins et du Tribunal international du droit de la mer, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XXX 1984.

        • La délimitation du plateau continental du Golfe Persique, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, Presses universitaires de France, No. 3, 1988.

        • La Convention sur la répression d’actes illicites contre la sécurité de la navigation maritime, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XXXIV 1988.

        • La frontière irano-irakienne dans le Chatt-el-Arab, Iranian Journal of International Relations, vol. 1, Tehran, 1989.

        • La protection de l’environnement marin du golfe Persique et de la mer d’Oman, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 4, Presses universitaires de France, 1990.

        • Le statut juridique de la mer Caspienne, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 5, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1991.

        • Les règles relatives à la protection de l’environnement au cours des conflits armés à l’épreuve du conflit entre l’Irak et le Koweit, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XXXVII, 1991.

        • La conservation et la gestion des stocks de poissons chevauchants et grands migrateurs, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 7, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1993.

        • Le statut juridique de certaines îles éparses du Golfe Persique Abou Moussa et la Petite et Grande Tumb, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 8, Paris, 1994.

        • Les interprétations discordantes des dispositions de la Convention de Montego Bay: tracé des lignes de base droites et passage des navires de guerre dans la mer territoriale, Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 9, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1995.

        • L’Accord relatif à la conservation et à la gestion des stocks de poissons chevauchants et grands migrateurs, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XLI 1995.

        • Quel régime pour la mer Caspienne? Collection Espaces et Ressources maritimes, No. 10, Ed. A. Pedone, Paris, 1996.

        • La délégation par le Conseil de Sécurité de l’exécution de ses actions coercitives aux Organisations régionales, Annuaire Français de Droit International, vol. XLIII 1997.

        • Les règles humanitaires minimales applicables en période de troubles et de tensions internes, Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge, No. 831, September 1998.

        • La lutte contre l’introduction clandestine de migrants par mer, in Annuaire du droit de la mer, Ed. A. Pedone, Tome IV, Paris, 1999.

        • L’intervention d’humanité de l’OTAN au Kosovo et la règle du non recours à la force, Revue Internationale de la Croix Rouge, No. 837, March 2000.

        • Le droit international humanitaire applicable aux conflits armés non internationaux, Recueil des cours de l’Académie de droit international, Tome 292, 2001, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London, 2002.

        • La compétence complémentaire de la Cour pénale internationale à l’épreuve des lois d’amnistie inconditionnelle, Die Friedens-Warte (Journal of Internationa1 Peace Organization) Inhalt 78 (2003) 1 Heft 1 BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts Verlag Gmbh 2003.

        • L’engagement des Etats à «faire respecter» le droit international humanitaire par les parties aux conflits armés, in Collegium No. 30, Summer 2004, College of Europe.