Prof. Emmanuel Decaux is a graduate of the Institute for political studies of Paris (Sciences Po), Doctor of Law from the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II and “agrégé” of public law. He is professor at the University Pantheon-Assas Paris II since 1999, director of the Center for research on human rights and humanitarian law (CRDH) and editor of the electronic review Droits Fondamentaux.
Prof. Decaux published a handbook on Droit international public (6ème ed, Dalloz, Paris, 2008), edited Les Nations Unies et les droits de l’homme, enjeux et défis d’une réforme (Pedone, Paris, 2006) and L’OSCE, trente ans après l’Acte final de Helsinki, bilan et perspectives de la nouvelle Europe (under press). He is also coordinating a collective commentary of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Prof. Decaux is a member of the new Consultative Committee of the Human Rights Council for a third year mandate (2008-2010), after being a member of the UN Sub-Commission on human rights, its working group on communications, and of the working group on contemporary forms of slavery.
He has been also special rapporteur on the universal application of human rights treaties and rapporteur on the administration of justice by military courts. Prof. Decaux is the author of numerous articles on international organizations, settlement of disputes and human rights.