Human Rights Committee - Members

Christine CHANET (France)

Advanced Diploma in Private Law

Advanced Diploma in Criminology

Laureate of the Paris Faculty of Law

Junior magistrate at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature

Magistrate at the Central Administration of the Ministry of Justice (1970)

Technical adviser to the Secretariat of State for Women's Affairs then head of the Minister's Office (1974-1976)

Special assistant at the Office of the Minister for Culture (1976-1977)

Special assistant to the Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then in 1983 Assistant Head of International Civil and Criminal Affairs and Human Rights in the Legal Affairs Department.

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and member of the Committee against Torture

Technical adviser in charge of international affairs in the Office of the Minister of Justice (1988-1990)

Advocate-General at the Court of Appeal of Paris (1992-1996)

Judge at the Court of Cassation (since 1996)

Chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (1997-1998)

Chairperson of the ministerial Committee in charge of deliberating on measures of expulsion (1998)

Chairperson of the Committee in charge of reviewing penal decisions following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (2000)

Member of the Advisory Committee on Human Rights in France

Member of the French International Law Society

Member of the French branch of the International Law Association (ILA)

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit (1997)

Languages: French and English

[This profile can be found in the document CCPR/SP/58]