Dr. Béatrice LIBORI

Education and Academic Qualifications

• June 1998: Appointed as a Maître de conférences (Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer) in French Faculties of Law, specialising in Public Law, at Montpellier I University.
• January 1998: Doctorat en droit (PhD in Law). Doctoral thesis: Le principe de respect de la dignité humaine et la CEDH (555 pages). Awarded the distinction Très honorable avec félicitations du jury (highest honours with congratulations from the examination committee), with a unanimous recommendation for publication.
• 1992–1993: Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA) (postgraduate research diploma, broadly equivalent to a research Master's degree) in Public International Law, Aix-Marseille III University. Overall distinction: Assez Bien (satisfactory honours). Dissertation: Festina lente, les problèmes de la reconnaissance et de l’établissement de relations diplomatiques entre le Saint-Siège et l’Etat d’Israël (205 pages), awarded Très Bien (highest distinction).
• October 1988 – June 1990: Diplôme d'Études Universitaires Générales (DEUG) (two-year undergraduate university diploma) in Economics, Montpellier I University. Distinction: Assez Bien (satisfactory honours).

Main Teaching Activities Since 2010

• “The Social Doctrine of the Church”: Semester-long courses taught at the Redemptoris Mater Missionary Diocesan Seminaries in Toulon, Beirut and Bangalore.
• Various courses and lectures on human dignity, bioethics and marriage at the Studium Notre-Dame de Vie, Saint-Didier.
• “Laudato Si’, or the Social Doctrine of the Church under Pope Francis”: Courses taught to Franciscan Sisters in Montfavet (2017–2018).

Main Professional Activities in Rome (1999–2005)

• Permanent Consultant in International Law and Human Rights to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (Rome). Representative of the Holy See at various international meetings.
• Participated in the work of the research team led by Professor Compagnoni (Angelicum, Rome) and in the legal philosophy research group led by Professor D’Agostino (Roma III, Tor Vergata).
• Delivered numerous courses in Italian and English at the Angelicum, the Lateranense, Sapienza and LUISS, primarily in international humanitarian law, international human rights law and European constitutional law.

Main Publications and Other Academic Work

• Le principe de respect de la dignité humaine et la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme, doctoral thesis in Public Law, supervised by F. Sudre, Montpellier I University, 18 January 1998. Awarded Très honorable avec félicitations du jury (highest honours with congratulations from the examination committee), with a unanimous recommendation for publication. Recipient of the 1999 Viard Prize of the Académie française for an outstanding doctoral thesis, and second prize in the 1997–1998 doctoral thesis competition of the French Centre for Comparative Law. Published by La Documentation française, Monde européen et international series, February 1999, 555 pages.
• « Le Società transnazionali e il loro rispetto dei diritti umani : alcuni dei principali problemi che si presentano al giurista », in Fondare la responsabilità sociale d'impresa, edited by Helen Alford and Francesco Compagnoni (Angelicum University), Città Nuova, 2008.
• « Dal living will al modo sbagliato d’interpretare il diritto all’autonomia », in Oikonomia, no. 3, October 2005, pp. 5–10.
• « Il diritto all’informazione in materia ambientale in Europa », in Diritto e gestione dell'ambiente, Faculty of Law, University of Naples II, no. 3/2001.
• « La Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo assicura agli stranieri un diritto alla tutela della salute ? alcuni elementi di risposta », in Bioetica, diritti umani e multietnicità, immigrazione e sistema sanitario nazionale (Angelicum University), San Paolo, 2001, pp. 344–362.
• Summary report on the development of a right to health under international law and comparative constitutional law, prepared for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, March 2000.
• Summary report on the survey concerning the “pastoral care of rights,” conducted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace among Episcopal Conferences. Oral presentation at the World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Human Rights, Vatican, 1–4 July 1998.
• « La dignité humaine est-elle liberticide ? », in Les Cahiers des Écoles Doctorales, Faculty of Law, Montpellier I University, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 187–210.
• « Le droit à disposer de son corps : l'embarras du droit », Les Cahiers de l'IDEDH, no. 7, 1999, pp. 118–149.
• « Quelle réponse les droits de l'homme apportent-ils au droit des réfugiés ? La question du non-refoulement du demandeur d'asile débouté en Europe », July 1997, Droits et Humanité, no. 1, 1999.
• « Essai de définition théologique et philosophique de la dignité humaine », in Les droits fondamentaux, edited by J.-Y. Morin, Bruylant, Universités francophones series, Brussels, 1997, pp. 223–253.
• « Notes sur le respect de la dignité humaine... ou petite fugue inachevée autour d'un thème central », in Le droit, la médecine et l'être humain, propos hétérodoxes sur quelques enjeux vitaux du XXI° siècle, edited by A. Sériaux, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 1996, pp. 185–212.