Jamshid Momtaz

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Jamshid (or Djamchid) Momtaz [1] [2] was born June 18, 1942 in Izmir. He earned his degree in public law at the Faculty of Law and Economy from University of Paris (1966).

In 1968, he graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and held his Phd in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Paris II (1971).

He is currently Professor of Public International Law at the University of Tehran University of Tehran [3] and Visiting Professor at the universities of Paris I, Paris XI, XIII Paris, Caen and Grenoble II.

From 1979 to 1982, he chaired the Center for International Studies of the University of Tehran.

He was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations between 2000 and 2006 (President of the same committee at its 57th session in 2005 - 2006) [4].

He is a Fellow of the Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International) and member of several organizations :

• International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Group of International Adviser [5].
• Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law [6].
• Board of Editors of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (T.M.C. Asser Institute, Netherlands) [7].
• Steering Committee for the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Study on International Customary Law (1996-2004).
• Commission for the Settlement of Disputes Related to Confidentiality, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)[8], 1994-2004.

He is also visiting Professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne) [9].

[edit] Publications

• Le droit international humanitaire applicable aux conflits armés non internationaux, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Tome 292, 2001, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London 2002.
• Les actions au cours d'un conflit armé, in studi di Diritto Internazionale in Onore di Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, Editoriale Scientifica, 2004
• Le recours à l'arme nucléaire et la protection de l'environnement : l'apport de la Cour internationalede Justice, In International Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Philippe Sands (Editors), Cambridge University Press 1999.
• Did the Court Miss an Opportunity to Denounce the Erosion of the Principle Prohibiting the Use of Force ? Symposium Reflections on the ICJ's Oil Platforms Decisions, Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, Number 29, Summer 2004.