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Monica Naime

Monica Naime

Position

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

E-mail
monica.naime@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55589321
Visitor address
Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1
5010 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7806
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

Monica Naime

Position

Assistant Professor

Affiliation

Research

I am a PhD in Public Policy from CIDE, Mexico, currently a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway. I hold a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. I am a lawyer and have an international relations degree from Mexico.

Dissertation project:

Privatization, decentralization, delegation, public-private partnerships, outsourcing, are all phenomena that increase the fluidity of statal functions and activities, where the border between sovereign acts and private acts is blurred. Nonetheless, the legal regime of international State responsibility assumes, as it did when it began to be developed in the early 20th century, that the State controls its entities and the services and goods they provide. Therefore, there is a dissonance between the rules for attribution and the degree of State oversight of non-state entities that exercise acts of governmental authority.

The dissertation focuses on the rule for attributing to the State the acts of non-State entities that exercise acts of governmental authority (article 5 of the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility). The research is relevant not only for international law as a scholarly field, but also shows the consequences of governments’ choices on the organization of state organs, and the decision on the public or private provision of public goods, services, and the administration of natural resources, amongst others.

Overall, my current main research project seeks to clarify the conditions and limits of attributing to the State the conduct of non-state entities that exercise acts of governmental authority. It centers on better understanding of the relation between the internal organization of the State and its international responsibility. This is especially important as, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, globalization has not displaced the State, but rather the contrary: the fact that more actors and more activities play at the international sphere has increased the relevance of the State within local, national, international, transnational, and global governance networks which lie beyond their control.

For example, as part of the economic responses to the pandemic, several countries have invested in airlines companies, under the argument to protect jobs. States have therefore acquired central influence over these companies. Does this mean that some states have considered aviation as a central function of the state? Where is the limit between the state acting or the company acting, given that states could now have the power to make decision over these companies? Who should be held accountable for breaches of international law in this case? These are the type of issues I seek to clarify with my current project.

 

Academic activities:

I have teaching experience in Norwegian, English and Spanish. I have taught both law students and interdisciplinary audiences. The main courses I teach are introduction to legal thinking, international law, human rights, environmental law, and legal and political history. I am able and interested in supervising master students in all these topics, either in Norwegian or in English. 

I have over 10 peer-reviewed publications, in English, Norwegian and Spanish, and have been a visiting scholar in Geneva, Paris, Cambridge and Bergen (admorg). I have several years of work experience in the Mexican federal government and with International Organizations.

My general research interests comprise the intersection between law, public policy and organization theory. And dogs.

Publications
2012
2017
2023
2022
2019
2021
2013
2011
2020
2025
2018
2014

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.