Chantal Meloni
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Chantal Meloni (Bluesky – X) is associate professor of international criminal law at the University of Milan (Italy) and senior legal advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) of Berlin (Germany) on international crimes and accountability.
After the law degree at the University of Milan, in 2006 she completed a PhD in Italian and comparative criminal law. In 2006/2007 she was first visiting professional and then associate legal officer at the International Criminal Court in the Hague assigned to the Pre-Trial Chamber.
From 2011 to 2014, she was Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the chair of international criminal law of the Humboldt University of Berlin, working on a research project on the protection of the right to life in the context of asymmetric armed conflicts. As part of this project, she spent several months in Gaza (Palestine), at the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
Chantal Meloni is a trained criminal lawyer admitted to the Italian Bar and is included in the list of assistant counsels before the International Criminal Court, where she alsorepresents victims.
In 2022, she was appointed by the then Minister of Justice as a member of the Commission that drafted the Project for an Italian code of international crimes (“Commissione Palazzo-Pocar”)
In addition to her regular teaching activities, she lectures on international criminal law in various universities, is a regular speaker in international conferences and is invited as an expert in round tables organized by the UN, the EU Parliament or other international institutions on international law issues. She is a member of several national and international research projects on criminal law, international criminal law and victims’ rights, and on the board of Italian criminal law journals.
She is also a member of the advisory board of the Franz von Liszt Institute for International Criminal Law & Justice at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Chantal Meloni is the author of numerous scientific articles, papers and book chapters on international criminal law, including the books “Giustizia Universale? Tra gli Stati e la Corte penale internazionale: bilancio di una promessa (Il Mulino, 2024) and “Command Responsibility in International Criminal Law” (Asser T.M.C., 2010), and is the co-editor of the books “Domesticating international criminal justice” (Routledge, 2023) and “Is There a Court for Gaza?” (Asser/Springer, 2012).