Experience

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  NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, International Law / Climate Change & Human Rights

    • May 2012 - Present
    • Greater New York City Area

    Fully-fledged courses on Public International Law (2012 to present) and on Climate Change and Human Rights (2024) for post-graduate students at the Center for Global Affairs (MSGA) of NYU: my profile is available at https://www.sps.nyu.edu/homepage/academics/faculty-directory/14163-david-donat-cattin.html .

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  University of Verona

  • Verona, Veneto, Italy

  • Adjunct Professor of Law

    • Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
    • Verona, Veneto, Italy

    Law of International Organization course at the Faculty of Law

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  Parliamentarians for Global Action

  • United States
  • International Affairs
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Secretary-General

    • Oct 2013 - Mar 2023

    The vision of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) is "to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world." PGA is the largest NGO of individual Legislators, with over 1300 Member-Parliamentarians in 142 countries with democratic or transitional status. The Campaigns of PGA aims at supporting Parliamentarians and creating sustainable political will, ownership and technical capacity to 1) put an end to impunity for mass-atrocities through the universality and effectiveness of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court system; 2) prevent and counter violent extremism; 3) abolish the death penalty; 4) put an end to child, early and forced marriage; 5) ensure non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity; 6) regulate and control the arms' trade; 7) eradicate biological and bacteriological weapons.

  • Senior Director, International Law & Human Rights Programme

    • Sep 2007 - Dec 2013

  • Director of Programmes (Director for Int Law & Human Rights)(Legal Advisor & European Coordinator)

    • Jan 2000 - Aug 2007

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  Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Faculty of Law

  • Salzburg, Austria

  • Lecturer & panelist at Salzburg School on Int. Crim. Law, Int. Hum. Law & Human Rights

    • Aug 1999 - Oct 2018
    • Salzburg, Austria

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  CICC

  • member

    • 1995 - 2010

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  Università degli Studi di Teramo

  • Teramo, Abruzzi, Italy

  • Scientific Coordinator/Lecturer, LLM Program on International Criminal Law

    • Sep 2000 - Dec 2004
    • Teramo, Abruzzi, Italy

    Designed the curriculum and coordinated the LL.M. programme entitled "Master on International Cooperation against International and Transnational Crimes" [Italian Ministry of University and Research financed it and assessed that it was the Italian post-graduate programme with the highest percentage of non EU citizens enrolled]. I delivered interactive lectures, coordinated panels, and facilitated sessions on victims’ rights and connected subjects, including substantive International Criminal Law (e.g. definition of crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, crime of aggression, transnational crimes) and procedural International Criminal Law (hybrid procedural law of the ICC between common law and civil law systems; jurisdiction and trigger mechanisms under the Rome Statute; complementarity, etc.); identification and invitation of academic contributors (including Professors Cecile Aptel, Cherif Bassiouni, Morten Bergsmo, Bruce Broomhall, Antonio Cassese, Roger Clark, Rhonda Copelon, Claus Kress, Giuseppe Nesi, Daniel Ntanda Nsereko, Alain Pellet, Fausto Pocar, Darryl Robinson, William Schabas and Otto Triffterer as well as practitioners such as Barbara Bedont, Christopher Keith Hall, Thomas Henquet, Steven Kay, Philippe Kirsch, Roberto Ricci and Michail Wladimiroff). In parallel, I conducted a post-doctorate research project on the role of the Judge in finding customary norms of International Criminal Law.