Joana de Andrade Pacheco
Joana Pacheco is a PhD candidate of the Institute for International Peace and Security Law under the supervision of Prof. Claus Kress. Her research, which is being undertaken with the support of the Studienstiftungdes deutschen Volkes, examines the work of the International Law Commission in the field of international criminal law from a systemic integration perspective.
Previously, Joana has studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais where she graduated in law and obtained her master’s degree in public international law. She has worked as an assistant to Mrs. Galvão Teles during the seventy-third session of the International Law Commission and Mr. Grossman Guiloff during the seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth sessions.
Joana’s research interests include general international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law and the law of international organizations.
Current Research Project
Dissertation under the working title “International Criminal Law and the work of the International Law Commission: A Study on the Trials and Errors of Systemic Integration within the International Legal Order”
Lectures
Lecture on “The nature of functional immunity in the work of the ILC” presented at the I Toledo/Cologne Symposium on Current Question of International Law, Toledo, February 2024.
Lecture on the topic: “Refugees: The legal framework in Brazilian Law” at Seminário Migrantes no Brasil at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, August 2019.
Lecture on the topic: “The ICC’s cooperation regime: challenges on the detention and surrender of suspects” at IV Colóquio de Direito Internacional Público: Diálogos entre Cortes Internacionais e Tribunais Nacionais IV at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, December 2018.
Publications
De Andrade Pacheco, Joana: Where do States Stand on Official Immunity Under International Law? Just Security blog, 19/04/2024, www.justsecurity.org/94830/where-do-states-stand-on-official-immunity-under-international-law/
De Andrade Pacheco, Joana: Trial Chamber. Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, June 2023.
De Andrade Pacheco, Joana; De Oliveira Biazatti, Bruno: O Governo Bolsonaro e a Crise dos Yanomamis: Análise Crítica de uma Eventual Intervenção do TPI (Parts I and II), International Law Agendas, 29/05/2023, http://ila-brasil.org.br/blog/o-governo-bolsonaro-e-a-crise-dos-yanomamis-modalidades-de-responsabilidade-penal-no-tpi/
De Andrade Pacheco, Joana: O Projeto de Artigos da CDI sobre Imunidade de jurisdição penal estrangeira dos funcionários do Estado: em busca do equilíbrio adequado. Coluna Pratica Penal Internacional, International Law Agendas, 27/01/2023, http://ila-brasil.org.br/blog/o-projeto-de-artigos-da-cdi-sobre-imunidade-de-jurisdicao-penal-estrangeira-dos-funcionarios-do-estado-em-busca-do-equilibrio-adequado/.
De Andrade Pacheco, Joana: Ato Unilateral, in: Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Direito Internacional (Edited by D M Vicente, F L Bastos, M A Ribeiro, A T Saliba, M T F Filho, P Borba), Belo Horizonte: Dom Quixote, 2023, p. 142-143.
Joana de Andrade Pacheco
External Doctoral Candidate
Institute for International Peace and Security Law