Women of International Law. Jasmine Moussa
During her public talk at the ICLRC, she told us about her professional journey in public international law, from her studies and first steps in the profession to representing Egypt in international litigation. We discussed the role that education, the professional community, and choosing one's own specialization play in a career. A separate part of the conversation focused on the opportunities and challenges that women face in international law. Jasmine shared how she balances demanding professional work with motherhood, why it is important to be able to ask for support, and what helps her stand her ground in a professional environment.
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Dr. Jasmine Moussa is the Legal Counsel at the Cabinet of Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and President of the Egypt Chapter of the International Law Association. She has acted for Egypt in a number of cases before international courts, including the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Prior to her current role, she was Counsellor for Legal and Humanitarian Affairs at Egypt’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and served in various other roles at the Foreign Ministry including in the Cabinet of the Minister, Cabinet of the Deputy Foreign Minister, Legal Department, and Multilateral Affairs Department. From 2016 to 2018, she was the legal advisor in the negotiations on the Ethiopian GERD Dam and the legal and institutional frameworks of the Nile basin. Dr. Moussa taught public international law at the American University in Cairo, Cairo University, as well as St. Edmund’s College and Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. She is a Lecturer at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of Competing Fundamentalisms and Egyptian Women’s Family Rights (BRILL Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) and her research has been published in several leading academic journals, including the British Yearbook of International Law, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, International Review of the Red Cross, and the Cambridge International Law Journal, of which she served as Editor-in-Chief in 2012-2013. She has a BA in Political Science and Economics (AUC), MA in International Human Rights Law (AUC), LLB (Cairo University), LLM in International Law (London School of Economics), and PhD in Law (University of Cambridge).