A thesis on the statesʼ responsibility to protect population gets the "Cum Laude" award
The Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona (UB) held the ceremony of the ninth edition of the “Cum Laude” Award on Law and Economics. The award has been given to Elena Jiménez Botías, for her thesis “La Responsabilitat de Protegir com a instrument de governance global: possibilitats i limits”. The author of this work holds a doctorate from the UB and is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law at the same university. The supervisor of the thesis is Pere Vilanova, professor of Political Science and Administration of the UB.
The Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona (UB) held the ceremony of the ninth edition of the “Cum Laude” Award on Law and Economics. The award has been given to Elena Jiménez Botías, for her thesis “La Responsabilitat de Protegir com a instrument de governance global: possibilitats i limits”. The author of this work holds a doctorate from the UB and is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law at the same university. The supervisor of the thesis is Pere Vilanova, professor of Political Science and Administration of the UB.
Jiménez Botiasʼ thesis focuses on the Responsibility to Protect, a concept brought by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which had, according to the author, “a brilliant growth in the speech and action of the United Nations”. The aim of the thesis is to “discern the current limitations and possibilities of the Responsibility to Protect as a global governance tool for the protection of human beings regarding four crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing; and whether it can contribute to overcome this imbalance between the predicted tools by public international law and the current reality of conflicts”.
The aim of “Cum Laude” is to honor high quality research works written in Catalan, show them and show that our language, if revealing quality content, crosses borders and that findings, news and research results found by our researchers should be published in Catalan so as to keep its prestige. The Vives Network collaborates with the Mon Juïc Institute in the call of this award, which is supported by the Directorate-General of Language Policy of Generalitat de Catalunya. Apart from the recognition and publication of the awarded works, the award accounts for an economic aid of 6,000 euros.
Participants in the ceremony were Tessa Calders, president of the Món Juïc Institute, Ester Franquesa, director general of Language Policy of Generalitat de Catalunya; Mercè Puig, vice-rector for Students and Language Policy at the University of Barcelona; Jaume Saura, tenured lecturer of International Public Law and International Relations at the UB, and president of the jury that evaluated the awarded thesis; Jordi Montaña, vice president of the Vives Network and Elena Jiménez Botías, awardee of the ninth edition of the award in the category of Law and Economics.