IEA

Fellowship time: October 2009 to June 2010.

Research Project:

"Internormativity: factor in the development of international criminal law"

Abstract:
A bottle whose walls are both internal and external! Borrowed from the German mathematician Felix Klein, the image seems magical and yet it illustrates a reality for the less disturbing: the normative world as a result of multiple interactions at international, regional and national level is indeed an area without outside and inside. Since the permeability of legal orders, including law enforcement, seems to favour the transition from inter-state to supra-state, it would have a deep impact on the very nature of international criminal law. The fact is that appearance can be misleading.
Of course, internormativity implies some legal convergence in particular in the design of mega-crimes such as terrorism. But regardless of its magnitude, such convergence could lead to a building de façade that may collapse if not deeply rooted in a set of common values. Thus, the phenomenon deserves to be analyzed, both in its structural dimension and in its moral dimension. "

Biographical elements:

After earning a master’s degree in criminal law and criminology at the University of Tehran, Pejman Pourzand continued his studies in France with a postgraduate degree in criminal policy and a doctorate in international criminal law that was published in 2008 editions as LGDJ Title: The internationalization of criminal trafficking in drugs. Critical study of the intertwining of normative spaces. He has taught as lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Tehran, Beheshti and UNESCO Chair of Human Rights where he also directed several research projects. After a dual experience at the United Nations during the Khmer Rouge trial (UNAKRT), and with the International Criminal Court, he now continues his research on the concept of internormativity.

Publications
Book

Internationalisation pénale en matière de trafic de drogue : Etude critique de l’enchevêtrement des espaces normatifs (à paraître novembre 2008, Paris, LGDJ)

Articles:

1) L’évolution de la théorie des infractions formelles à la lumière de la jurisprudence internationale (à paraître - septembre 2008)

2) « Le ministère publique : la plume est serve...mais la parole aussi ! » in LAZERGES, Ch., Figures de parquet, PUF, 2006.

3) « Le trafic de stupéfiants comme secteur d’harmonisation du droit pénal : le voyage au bout de la répression », Archives de politique criminelle, n° 25, Pedone, 2003, pp. 237-254.

4) « Philosophical basis of criminal proof theory », Judiciary Journal of Tehran, n° 33, 2001, pp. 7-33.