Curriculum  Vitae – Jiri Toman

Date of birth: 5 November 1938
Place of birth: Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Nationality: Swiss/Czech
Address in United States of America

Professional Address

Santa Clara University
School of Law
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, California 95053
Tel.: (408) 551-1769
Fax: (408) 554-4426
Email: jtoman@scu.edu

Private Address:
1019 Myrtle Street
San Jose, California 95126-1029
Tel.: 9408) 551-0224

Address in Switzerland:
Private Address:

5, Rue des Pervenches
1227 Geneve- Carouge
Tel.: (022) 343 92 84

LANGUAGES

Fluent in French, English, Russian, Czech, Slovak.

University of Geneva, Translation and Interpretation School. Lecturer (Russian legal and economic terminology) , 1973-1998

Official Translator for the Republic and Canton of Geneva [Russian, Czech and Slovak].

Basic knowledge of German, Spanish, Italian, and several Slavic languages (Polish, Bulgarian, Serbo-croatian).

EDUCATION

1965 - 1970 Graduate Institute of International Studies, The University of Geneva. Ph.D, Political Sciences, 1981.

1963 - 1964 International University for Comparative Sciences, Faculty of Comparative Law, Luxembourg. Diploma, Comparative Law, 1964.

1956 - 1961 Charles University, School of Law, Prague
Diploma, International Legal Studies, 1961.
JUDr (Juris Utriusque Doctor), 1966.
Candidate of Legal Sciences examination, 1966 - 1967.

PRESENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Santa Clara University, School of Law, Santa Clara, California, 95053, USA
Professor of Law, August 1998 - present

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Henry Dunant Institute, Rue de Lausanne 114, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland

Director a.i, 1992 - July 1998, 1986 - 1987.The Henry Dunant Institute is the research, training and publications center of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Its activities focus on international humanitarian law; the history, actions and fundamental principles of the Red Cross; and other humanitarian issues of our times. The Institute hosts researchers, professors, students, National Societies staff members and volunteers from around the world.

Prior positions held: Deputy Director,1979 - 1992
Director of Research,1972 - 1979
Research Fellow,1969 - 1972

School of Economic Sciences, Prague, Nam. G. Klimenta 4, Czechoslovakia

Assistant Professor of Law, 1963 - 1970

Charles University, School of Law, Prague, Parizska ul. 27, Czechoslovakia

Assistant, Department of International law, 1958 - 1961, Assistant Professor (part time) 1964 - 1965.

University of 17th November, Prague Czechoslovakia, Assistant Professor, Department of International law, 1964 - 1970.

United Nations Experience

1983 - 1988 UNESCO, Paris
Consultant. Works produced: Le Mandat de l' UNESCO dans la mise en oeuvre de la Convention de La Haye pour la protection des biens culturels en cas de conflit arm, Study prepared for UNESCO Committee of Experts, Vienna, September 1983, 116 pp; La protection des biens culturels en cas de conflit arm: Projet d'un Programme d' action, Study and Commentary, UNESCO Internal Document, 1983, 249 pp.; La protection des biens culturels en cas de conflit arm. Commentaire de la Convention de La Haye du 14 mai 1954. Paris, Editions UNESCO (Collection Patrimoine mondial), 1994, 490 p.

1986 United Nations Center for Human Rights, Geneva
Consultant. Prepared studies on: (i) the right to leave any country, including one's own; (ii) the extent and effect of restriction under Article 12(3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and (iii) the right to enter another country. Cf. Sub-Commission Resolution 1985/29 and Commission on Human Rights Resolution 1984/37.

1985 - 1986 UNDRO, Geneva
Prepared study, Disaster Prevention and Preparedness in International Law, an annotated register of the relevant multialteral conventions and their status.
1983-1984Conducted study and drafted proposal for Convention on Expediting the Delivery of Emergency Relief, adopted by Informal Group of Experts and by the U.N. Economic and Social Council, Sept. 1983. Cf. United Nations Doc. A/39/267/Add.2;E/1984/96/Add.2.

1968 UN Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva
Associate Economic Affairs Officer, UNCTAD. Studied organization of foreign trade in Eastern European countires. Researched legal and institutional problems of multilateral payments system.

Other International Organizations Experience

1996-1997 Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Expert, Reform of Judicial system in Central and Eastern Europe.

Academic Experience

1989, 1982 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Visiting Professor of Law, School of Law. Courses taught: International Law; Human Rights and Humanitarian Law..

1984 George Washington University, Washington, DC
Visiting Professor of Law, National Law Center. Taught International Public Law.

1977 - 1980 Universite de Franche-Comte, Besancon, France
Lecturer in the School of Law and Economic Sciences. Taught International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

1968 - 1969 African Institute, University of Geneva, Geneva
Lecturer in International Law and International Relations, University Institute of Development Studies. Gave courses on International Law; History of International Relations.

1964 - 1968 University of 17th November, Prague
Assistant Professor of International Law

1964 - 1966 Charles University School of Law, Prague
Assistant Professor of International Law. Assistant, Department of History of Law and International Law (1958 - 1962).

1962 - 1970 School of Economic Sciences, Prague
Assistant Professor in International and Comparative Law (1964 - 1970); in Department of Economic Law, specializing in International and Comparative Law (1962 - 1964).

Additional lecture experience at the following universities: Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Pisa, Uppsala, Virgina, Yale, etc.

Research and Teaching Experience

1972 - 1985 International Institute on Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

Study Group on International Humanitarian Law at the Institute's teaching sessions on human rights.

1980 - 1983 Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Institut Suisse de droit compar), Lausanne-Dorigny
Consultant for Russian law other legal systems of Eastern Europe.

1976, 1982 Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, CA
Studied Russia and the law of war.

Autumn 1976 United States Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Summer 1979 Research on Russia and the law of war.

Summer 1979 Harvard Law SchoolCambridge, MA
Visiting Scholar, International Legal Center. Conducted research on international humanitarian law.

1973 - 1974 Academy of International Law, The Hague
Visiting Scholar. Research topics: Equity in international law; Non-international armed confict.

Seminars Led

African Seminars on International Humanitarian Law, Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon, 1986, 1983, 1981, 1979, 1977.

Seminars for the Heads of Penitentiary Administrations, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1988; Messina, 1985.

Latin American Seminars on International Humanitarian Law and Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, Mexico City, 1985; Panama City, 1984; Tampa, Florida, 1982; Quito, Ecuador, 1981; San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1979.

European Seminar for the Heads of Penitentiary Administrations, Messina, Sicily, 1989.

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center Management Training Course, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. Series of lectures on legal issues in natural and man-made disasters, 1987.

United Nations Information Service Seminar, Geneva, lectures on peaceful settlement of disputes, 1982.

International Peace Academy Seminar for UNEF, Vienna, July 1981 (Lecturer).

Summer Study session for the students of the American Schools of Law (introduction to the international law. international organizations and humanitarian law), organized each year jointly by the Santa Clara University and the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva, 1983 - 1996

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Editorships:

Human Rights Quarterly: A Comparative Journal and International Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, Baltimore, MD; Member of Editorial Review Board since 1982.

International Journal on Group Rights, Member of the International Advisory Board.

International Legal Materials, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.; Corresponding Editor.

Terrorism: An International Resource File, Advisory Board member.

Terrorism, An International Journal, Washington, D.C.; Associate Editor since 1977 - 1993

The International Journal of children's rights. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (1992-1998)

Memberships

Academy of Natural Sciences of the Federation of Russia
(Foreign member, academician - since October 1994).

American Political Science Association

American Society of International Law

Association d'interpretes et de traducteurs

International Association of Criminal Law

Inter-American Bar Association, Co-chairman of Committee I on Public and Private International Law (1984-1985)

International Association of Law Libraries

International Centre for Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Studies (INTERCENTRE), University of Messina; Founding Member; Member of Board of Directors and Scientific Council since 1977

International Law Association, Headquarters Member; member of the Committee on Medical and Humanitarian Law; Member of the International Advisory Committee since 1979

International Society of Military Law and Law of War

Geneva, December 1998