Makane M'Bengue

Dr. Mbengue holds a Ph.D in Public International Law, summa cum laudae, from the Geneva University Law School (Switzerland).

His thesis was on “Anticipation in International Law: A Legal Theory on the Regulation of Environmental and Sanitary Risk”.

He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Law and a LL.M. in Economic and Business Law, both magna cum laudae, from the University of Saint-Louis Law School (Senegal).

Presently, he is serving as an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lille School of Law (France) and as a Lecturer at the Geneva University Law School and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).

Dr. Mbengue is a Professor and Expert of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He has been a visiting Scholar at the New York University School of Law (United States), a visiting Professor at ISARA Lyon (France), a visiting Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), a visiting Lecturer at the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy), and a visiting Lecturer at the Northeastern University Law School (Boston, United States).

Dr. Mbengue teaches General Public International Law, International Dispute Settlement, International Environmental Law, International Investment Law, International Trade Law, Law of International Organizations, Law of International Watercourses, Law of State Responsibility, Law of Treaties.

Dr. Mbengue has served in diverse fields and in various capacities. In particular, he has acted as a Legal Advisor for the World Bank and the Senegal River Organization, as a Legal Expert for the Secretariat of the Nile Basin Initiative, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Green Cross International.

Dr. Mbengue is member of the Expert Group on the Development of Legal and Institutional Infrastructures and Cost Recovery Measures for the Sound Management of Chemicals (UNEP, Geneva) and member of several international law associations (e.g., American Society of International Law (ASIL), Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), African Foundation of International Law).

He also acts as Counsel for states before the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) and is involved in arbitration cases. He is a member of the team of Rapporteurs of the Institute of International Law (Institut de droit international).

Dr. Mbengue has authored and co-authored various books and articles and has presented communications in different prestigious conferences and colloquiums.

Some of his most important publications are:

Books:

• Africa Within the International Organization (Liber Amicorum Judge Raymond Ranjeva), Pedone, Paris, forthcoming 2012.
• Essai sur une théorie du risque en droit international public. L’anticipation du risque environmental et sanitaire, Pedone, Paris, 2009.
• Protection internationale de l’environnement (in collaboration with L. Boisson de Chazournes, R. Desgagne and C. Romano), Pedone, Paris, 2005.

Selected Articles :

• “International Courts as Fact-Finders: Scientific Fact-finding in International Adjudication”, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, vol. 34.1, forthcoming 2011.
• “National Legislations and Unilateral Acts”, in T. Gazzini and E. de Brabandère, The Sources of Rights and Obligations in Transnational Investment Law, Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2011.
• “Settling Disputes between Non-State Actors at the WTO: Dispute Settlement under the WTO Agreement on Preshipment Inspection”, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Volume 2, Issue 3, forthcoming 2011.
• “La Cour Suprême américaine et les Organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM)”, Actualités du droit des biotechnologies et des organismes génétiquement modifiés, Cahiers du droit de la santé du Sud-Est, forthcoming 2011.
• “A ‘Footnote as a Principle’. Mutual Supportiveness and Its Relevance in an Era of Fragmentation” (with L. Boisson de Chazournes), Liber Amicorum Rüdiger Wolfrum, Springer, forthcoming 2011.
• “Decolonization: French Territories”, in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011, online edition.
• “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A Singular Model of Expertise in the International Legal Order”, in Y. Kerbrat, S. Maljean-Dubois (eds.), International Law and Environmental Challenges, Pedone/Hart, Paris/Oxford, 2011, pp. 97-114.
• “Non-State Actors from the Perspective of International Environmental Law”, in J. D’Aspremont (ed.), Participants in the International Legal System: Theoretical Perspectives, Routledge, New York, 2011, pp. 372-389.
• “The African Economic Community”, in F. Ouguergouz and A. Yusuf (eds.), The African Union, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, forthcoming 2011.
• “Health and International Cooperation”, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, 2011, online edition, www.mpepil.com.
• “Article 18 of the 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties” (with L. Boisson de Chazournes and A.-M. La Rosa), in P. Klein and O. Corten (eds.), Commentary article by article of the 1969 and 1986 Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties, Volume I, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 369-404.
• “The Notion of Preamble”, in Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, 2009, online edition.