We are delighted to present the candidates for the EEEI awards 2024 (in alphabetical order). The prize will be awarded in the first quarter of 2025 …. A difficult choice for the Jury.
Cherifa Benahmed
PHD in Private Law and Criminal Sciences, ISCJ
She is applying for the EEEI Awards 2024 for her thesis on the use of DNA in criminal cases, a comparative study of Algerian and French law. The aim of this work is to highlight a legal framework that ensures the use of DNA, based on two legal foundations: the first is that this investigative measure must be implemented in the presence of an appropriate legal framework that meets the principle of procedural balance. This requirement for procedural balance can only be effective if the legal framework is accessible and predictable. These requirements are essential to guarantee the principle of legal certainty inherent in the rule of law in a democratic society, the second foundation on which our study is based. This work is carried out within the framework of a comparative law study, thus comparing the Algerian legal framework for the use of DNA evidence, a recent framework, with the French regulation of the said evidence, whose legal framework has been the subject of several amendments.
Michel Cohas
Phd in Science, European engineer, engineer from the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), graduate of the Institut français du froid industriel (IFFI). He is the author of several books and articles in various specialist journals on thermodynamics, air quality and expertise.
He is an expert at the Paris Court of Appeal and the Lyon Administrative Court of Appeal, as well as being a sworn member of the High Court of Justice of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and a consultant on the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE).
Michel Cohas has submitted his candidature for the EEEI 2024 prize for the publication of the book “Thermodynamique de l’air humide : de l’air pollué à l’air purifié” and the article “Expertises sur les hottes des cuisines professionnelles” published in the magazine Experts.
Christel Cournil
Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, she is a member of the Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique (LASSP) and the ATelier d’ECOlogie POLitique (ATECOPOL). She is a director of the Société française pour la protection de l’environnement (SFDE) and Vice-President of the Midi-Pyrénées section of the SFDE. She is responsible for the ecological transition and director of the Ecological Transition Committee within her institution. She directs the Ecological Transition Risk and Health (TERS) course (4th and 5th years) of the Science Po Toulouse degree. She is a member of the PROCLIMEX project led by Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and funded by the ANR (2021-2026).
Since 2012, she has written and coordinated the “Human Rights and the Environment” column for the European Journal of Human Rights, and since 2022, with Sabine Lavorel, the “Climate Law” column for the Revue Juridique de l’Environnement. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the association Notre affaire à tous and, since 2018, a member of the group of jurists of the Affaire du siècle in France. She has written and edited fifteen books and published around a hundred articles and chapters. She has published several collective works: “Changements climatiques et défis du droit” (Bruylant, 2010), “Les changements environnementaux globaux et les droits de l’Homme” (Bruylant, 2012), “Les politiques climatiques de l’Union européenne et droits de l’Homme” (Larcier 2013), “Mobilité humaine et environnement : du global au local” (Éditions Quæ, 2015), “Quel(s) droit(s) pour les changements climatiques? “(Mare & Martin, 2018), “Les procès climatiques: du national à l’international” (Pedone 2018), “Les grandes affaires climatiques” (DICE) (2020) and “La fabrique d’un droit climatique au service de la trajectoire 1.5” (Pedone 2021), “Le droit: une arme au service du vivant? Plaidoyers et contentieux stratégiques” (2024).
She has applied for the EEEI 2024 prize for a collective work resulting from an ANR research project on climate trials and expertise: “Expertises et argumentaires juridiques, Contribution à l’étude des procès climatiques” (December 2024, https://books.openedition.org/dice/17512).
Alfio Guido Grasso
Researcher at the University of Catania, where he teaches. He has taught at the Catholic University of Milan. He has carried out research as a visiting scholar at the universities of Coimbra, Manchester and Humboldt. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin. He is the author of Maternità surrogata altruistica e tecniche di costituzione dello status and several essays on private law topics.
He has applied for the EEEI 2024 prize for the publication of three books: “GDPR Feasability and Algorithmic Non Statutory Discrimination”, ” Altruistic Surrogacy and Status Establishment Techniques” and ” Algorithmic Diagnosis and Medical Responsibility”.
Marco Pasqua
PhD Candidate – Dottorando di ricerca
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
A doctoral student in international law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and a teaching assistant at both that university and the LIUC – Carlo Cattaneo University. He is actively involved in EAPIL (European Association of Private International Law) as junior editor of the blog, secretary of the young researchers’ network and social media manager.
He is a Qualified Lawyer before the Italian Bar and I hold double master’s degrees: one in Law, with a thesis on Collective Redress Against Cross-Border Infringements of Data Protection Rights in EU Law (awarded the 2021 Premio Daniele Padovani for the best thesis in private international law by the Società Italiana di Diritto Internazionale e dell’Unione Europea) and one in Economics & Management, with a thesis on The Liability of Corporate Groups for Violations of EU Competition Law (finalist for the Ruben Chillin’Competition’s 3rd Rubén Perea Award).
He has experience in international, private and public law, as well as European law. Throughout his academic and professional career, he has maintained an approach based on curiosity and open-mindedness, constantly seeking learning opportunities and embracing new experiences.
He has applied for the EEEI 2024 prize for his doctoral thesis in international and European Union law, entitled “International Sanctions in the Conflict-of-Laws – A European Union Perspective”. This thesis addresses the following research question: What is the integrated legal reasoning that an EU Member State court should follow to resolve the conflict of laws issues of a dispute affected by international sanctions? The work as a whole develops a comprehensive framework of legal reasoning that an EU Member State should follow in such cases.
Prof. Dr. sc. Tatjana Zoroska Kamilovska
Dr. sc. Tatjana Zoroska Kamilovska is a Full Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” where she teaches Civil Procedure, Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Cross-border Civil Proceedings in EU. She is a Head of the Civil Procedure Department and a Head of Doctoral Studies in Civil Law (both substantive and procedural) at the same faculty. She is a member of University Senate (2023/2026).
Professor Zoroska Kamilovskahas beena researcher and a visiting professor at several institutes and universities in Europe, including the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law; Europa-Institut, Saarland University, Germany; University of Maribor, Slovenia; University of Pavia, Italy and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
She was a Vice President of the Permanent Court of Arbitration attached to Economic Chamber of Macedonia and a member of the Presidency of the same arbitral institution. Today she serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration under various arbitration rules.
Professor Zoroska Kamilovskais an author/coauthor of seven reviewed books (including one on Arbitration Law), four reviewed monographs and more than 80 scientific papers (in Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian and English). She has been a leader or participant in more than 25 scientific projects (domestic and international), and a speaker in numerous international and domestic conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Professor Zoroska Kamilovskais a member of International Association of Procedural Law. She is also a member of Editorial Boards of three journals.
She has applied for the EEEI 2024 Awards for a recent research paper entitled “Same expert evidence in multiple court proceedings”.
Her work was published in the collection of papers of the X. International Conference Actualities of Civil Procedural Law “National and Comparative Legal Theoretical and Practical Achievments” (pp. 85-112), held in Split, Croatia, on 3-4 October 2024. It reflects his commitment to advancing knowledge in the field of forensics.
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