Jamshid

Jamshid

Jamshid is a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition.In tradition and folklore, Jamshid is described as having been the fourth and greatest king of the epigraphically unattested Pishdadian dynasty . This role is already alluded to in Zoroastrian scripture Jamshid (Middle-...

 (or Djamchid) Momtaz was born June 18, 1942 in Izmir. He earned his degree in public law at the Faculty of Law and Economy from University of Paris (1966).

In 1968, he graduated you from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and held his Phd in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Paris II (1971).

He is currently Professor of Public International Law at the University of Tehran

University of Tehran

The University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...

 http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/faculties/law-political-science/background.htm and Visiting Professor at the universities of Paris I, Paris XI, XIII Paris, Caen and Grenoble II.

From 1979 to 1982, chaired the Center for International Studies of the University of Tehran.

He was a member of the International Law Commission

International Law Commission

The International Law Commission was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 for the "promotion of the progressive development of international law and its codification."It holds an annual session at the United Nations Office at Geneva....

 of the United Nations

United Nations

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 between 2000 and 2006 (President of the same committee at its 57th session in 2005 - 2006) http://www.un.org/law/ilc/index.htm.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International

Institut de droit international

The Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers...

) and member of several organizations :

• International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Group of International Adviser http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Home?OpenDocument.
• Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law
  Hague Academy of International Law
  The Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands...
  
   http://www.hagueacademy.nl/.
• Board of Editors of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (T.M.C. Asser Institute, Netherlands) http://www.asser.nl/index.htm.
• Steering Committee for the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Study on International Customary Law (1996-2004).
• Commission for the Settlement of Disputes Related to Confidentiality, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is an intergovernmental organization, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The organization promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits of the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction...
  
   (OPCW)http://www.opcw.org/, 1994-2004.

He is also visiting Professor at the University of Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne) http://www.univ-paris1.fr/.

Publications

• Le droit international humanitaire applicable aux conflits armés non internationaux, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Tome 292, 2001, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London 2002.
• Les actions au cours d'un conflit armé, in studi di Diritto Internazionale in Onore di Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, Editoriale Scientifica, 2004
• Le recours à l'arme nucléaire et la protection de l'environnement : l'apport de la Cour internationalede Justice, In International Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Philippe Sands (Editors), Cambridge University Press 1999.