Ioana Cismas

Researcher

Ioana Cismas is a researcher at the Academy. Her work involves academic research and the provision of legal and policy expertise and advice to various stakeholders. As part of the team of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Ioana is offering legal support to one of the members of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council. In this position, she contributed to a number of studies of the Advisory Committee, such as the Study on discrimination in the context of the right to food.

She has previously worked or interned in the research and policy analysis units of the Centre for International Governance at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Geneva Call, and the Harvard/Graduate Institute Project on Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups. She has also served as a personal adviser to the Romanian Minister of European Integration and as Secretary General of the International Association for Political Science Students in Ljubljana.

As a Ph.D. candidate in International Law at the Graduate Institute, Ioana Cismas is exploring the rights and obligations of religious state and non-state actors under international law. She holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute and a double B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest.

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Publications

• “The Impact of the UN Special Procedures on the Development and Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” (with Christophe Golayand Claire Mahon), International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 2011, pp. 299-318.
• “Secession in Theory and Practice: The Case of Kosovo and Beyond”, Goettingen Journal of International Law, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2010, pp. 531-587, (available on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1669324)
• Legal Opinion: The Right to Property from a Human Rights Perspective(with Christophe Golay), Montreal: Rights and Democracy, 2010, (available on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1635359)
• “The OSCE in the European Security Environment – Questioning the Compatibility of Goal and Structure” in Zlatko Sabic, Lukasz Fijalkowski, & Ana Bojinovic Fenko (eds.), Global Impact Of Regional International Organizations, Wroclaw: Adam Marszalek, 2009, pp. 49-75, (available on SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1635230)

Conference papers

• "Religious Actors and the Fragmentation of International Law", Fourth ESIL Research Forum, Tallinn, May 2011
• "Rights and Obligations of Religious Actors Under International Law - Towards an Accountability Framework", ISA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 2010 (available online at http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/4/1/5/4/3/p415434_index.html)
• “Protecting Universality”, WISC Second Global International Studies Conference, Ljubljana, July 2008. Paper awarded with the Academic Platform Switzerland UN (UNO Academia) Award 2008 (available online at http://www.wiscnetwork.org/ljubljana2008/papers/WISC_2008-161.pdf)
• “OSCE – Acknowledging its social construction and the consequences thereof”, ECPR Sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference, Turin, September 2007(available online at http://turin.sgir.eu/uploads/Cismas-Ioana%20Cismas%20ECPR%20paper.pdf)