Bailliet was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires. She graduated from George Washington University Law School and the Elliott School of International Affairs, both in the United States, with a joint J.D. and Master's degree in International Affairs.[1]
Bailliet 2003 doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo[1] was titled Between Conflict & Consensus: Conciliating Land Disputes in Guatemala.[2]
Thereafter she published an article addressing the need for standards for refugees arriving by sea.[3]
In 2006 she called for guidelines for conscientious objectors applying for asylum.[4][5]
In 2007 Baillet wrote articles on house raids[6] and on women solidiers seeking asylum.[7] In 2012 she addressed due diligence standards in human rights and refugee cases involving women.[8] In 2013 she examined compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in "Measuring Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.[9]
Bailliet is a professor of law at Oslo University where she leads the masters programme in Public International Law.[10]
Bailliet created the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace in 2020.[12]
She created and runs a Masters class titled the International Law of Peace.[13] and she established a series of interviews with international judges on the evolution of international law.[14]
In January 2022 Bailliet became the Chair the Expert Advisory Group set up to support, Obiora Okafor, who was then the UN's Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity.[15] She created the Research Handbook on International Solidarity[15] which was published in 2024.[16] Bailliet succeeded Obiora Okafor to become the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in October 2023 after she was chosen by the United Nations' Human Rights Council.[17]
^“War in the Home”: An Exposition of Protection Issues Pertaining to the Use of House Raids in Counterinsurgency Operations, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 173-197, 2007
^ Examining Sexual Violence in the Military within the Context of Eritrean Asylum Claims Presented in Norway, International Journal of Refugee Law 2007 Vol. 19 No. 3.
^"Persecution in the Home: Applying the Due Diligence Standard to Harmful Traditional Practices within Human Rights and Refugee Law.", in 30 (1) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 36 (2012)
United Nations special rapporteurs bear mandates from the United Nations Human Rights Council and may hold the titles special rapporteur, independent expert or special representative of the Secretary-General, and are also referred to simply as mandate-holders.