Cecilia Bailliet

Cecilia M. Bailliet (born 24 April 1969) is a Norwegian professor of law who became the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in 2023.

Life
Bailliet was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires. She graduated from George Washington University Law School and the Elliott School of International Affairs, both in the United States, with a graduate and master's degree.

Bailliet 2003 doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo was titled Between Conflict & Consensus: Conciliating Land Disputes in Guatemala.

Bailliet is a professor of law at Oslo University where she leads the masters programme in Public International Law.

In 2015 she published a paper about GQUAL which is a campaign to highlight the huge gender disparity among appointments to international tribunals and monitoring bodies. The campaign was highlighted by Viviana Krsticevic who noticed this disparity after she was appointed to lead the Center for Justice and International Law as its executive director. The European Court of Human Rights has over 90% male judges and over 96% of the judges of the International Court of Justice are male. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea's judges are 97.5% male.

Bailliet created the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace in 2020.

In January 2022 Bailliet became the Chair the Expert Advisory Group set up to support, Obiora Okafor, who was then the UN's Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity. She created the Research Handbook on International Solidarity which was published in 2024. Bailliet succeeded Obiora Okafor to become the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in October 2023 after she was chosen by the United Nations' Human Rights Council.

Publications include

 * The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, 2017, co-edited with Nobuo Hayashi.
 * Promoting Peace through International Law (co-edited with Kjetil M. Larsen, Oxford 2015)
 * Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes, 2012
 * Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with Katja Franko Aas, Routledge 2011)
 * Security: A Multidisciplinary Normative Approach (Brill 2009)