Carmen Draghici

Lecturer and LLB Deputy Course Director
Email: Carmen.Draghici.1@city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8361

Dr. Carmen Draghici joined The City Law School in September 2009. She currently teaches Family and Child Law and Human Rights Law on the LLB course, and European Union Law on the Graduate Diploma in Law. She will also be part of the teaching team of City's new LLM in Public International Law starting in 2012-2013. She was appointed Deputy Director of the Law School's undergraduate programme in 2011. She also collaborates with the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona) as a lecturer in Public International Law (since 2009), and is a member of the Centre for Child and Family Law Reform.

Carmen's main research interests include various aspects of the practice of the European Convention on Human Rights, the impact of domestic and international counter-terrorism on fundamental rights, and the responsibility of States and international organisations. Carmen's doctoral dissertation, for which she received a PhD degree in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' in 2007, explored the international protection of family rights in Europe.

As a Leverhulme Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, School of Law, University of East London (2008), she carried out extensive research on the 'global war on terror'. She has contributed articles and chapters to UK and international journals and edited volumes, and is currently reworking her doctoral thesis into a monograph.

Publications:

• "The Human-Rights Compliance of UK Anti-Terrorism Legislation in the Light of Domestic and International Case Law", in G. Guarino - I. D'Anna (eds), International Institutions and Cooperation: Terrorism, Migrations, Asylum, Satura, 2012 (forthcoming)
• "Prohibición de la esclavitud y del trabajo forzoso", in C. Zanghì - F. Salvioli (eds), Jurisprudencia regional comparada de derechos humanos. El Tribunal europeo y la Corte interamericana, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2012, 291-320 (forthcoming)
• "Adoption and the European Court of Human Rights: from Laissez-faire to Judicial Law-Making" in L. Panella, L. - E. Spatafora (eds.), Scritti in onore di Claudio Zanghì, Giuffrè, 2011, 255-282
• "The Development of Self-Contained Regimes as an Obstacle to UN Global Governance", in M. Happold (ed.), International Law in a Multipolar World, Routledge, 2011, 283-302
• Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law Research, Legal Instruments Study (2011), report co-authored with Lorna Woods.  Cited in UNESCO's Concept Note on UN Interagency Meeting on Safety of Journalist and the Issue of Impunity (13-14 September 2011, Paris)
• "The Human Costs of the Iraq War and US International Responsibility", in G. Guarino - I. D'Anna (eds.), International Conflicts and Human Rights: Caucasus, Balkans, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Napoli Colloquium 2-4 July 2009, Satura, 2010, 733-773
• "Suspected Terrorists' Rights Between the Fragmentation and Merger of Legal Orders: Reflections in Margin of the Kadi ECJ Appeal Judgment", Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2009, 627-658
• "International Organisations and Anti-Terrorist Sanctions: No Accountability for Human Rights Violations?", Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 2, Issue 2 August 2009, 293- 312
• "The 'Global War On Terror'", in C. Sriram - O. Martín-Ortega - J. Herman, War, Conflicts and Human Rights, Routledge, 2009, 138-159
• "L'applicazione della dottrina 'clean hands' all'esercizio della protezione diplomatica" (The Application of the 'Clean Hands' Doctrine to the Exercise of Diplomatic Protection), in L. Panella (ed.), La protezione diplomatica: sviluppi e prospettive (Diplomatic Protection: Developments and Prospects), Giappichelli, 2009, 151-190
• "El Estado: competencia personal" (The State: Personal Jurisdiction), in VV AA, Derecho internacional público (Public International Law), Huygens, 2009, 261-278
• "Trading Justice for Security? UN Anti-Terrorism, Due Process Rights, and the Role of the Judiciary", Centre on Human Rights in Conflict (CHRC), University of East London, Policy paper no. 2, April 2009
• "Terror and Beyond: Moral and Normative Dilemmas", multiple review essay based on the books by Matthew Evangelista, "Law, Ethics and the War on Terror" (Polity Press, 2008) and by Seumas Miller, "Counter-Terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy" (Blackwell Publishing, 2009), in International Studies Review, Issue 11 (4), 2009, 755-759
• "Cecenia: La Corte di Strasburgo condanna Mosca per gravi violazioni dei diritti umani" (Chechnya: The Strasbourg Court Condemns Moscow for Serious Human Rights Violations), in the e-journal of the Asssociazione dei Costituzionalisti Italiani ("Giurisprudenza comunitaria e CEDU"/ "EU and European Convention Case-Law" section)
• "Le principe de non-discrimination dans la nouvelle Charte arabe des droits de l'homme: une réforme inachevée", in C. Zanghì - R. Ben Achour (eds.), La Nouvelle Charte Arabe des droits de l'homme. Dialogue italo-arabe. (Actes de la Table ronde italo-arabe du 17-18 décembre 2004, Messina), Giappichelli, 2005, 449-488