Hague Academy of International Law [SEP] date of official opening
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Peace Palace


The Peace Palace (; ) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, the Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Peace Palace Library. The Palace officially opened on 28 August 1913, and was originally built to provide a home for the PCA, a court created to end war by the Hague Convention of 1899. Andrew Dickson White, whose efforts were
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Peace Palace Library


The Peace Palace Library is a collection of studies and references specializing in international law. It is located in The Hague, Netherlands, and was established to support the Permanent Court of Justice. The Library is one of the oldest libraries dedicated to international law. Its main objective is to service the institutions residing in the Peace Palace, including the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the Hague Academy of International Law. The Library is open to all scholars and students of international law. The Dutch Carnegie
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international organizations. The External Program is designed for around 20 participants from the countries in the region, whose travelling expenses are usually financed by the Academy and whose accommodation is financed by the government of the host State or organization. In addition, a number of participants come from the host state itself. GNLU in collaboration with the Hague Academy of International Law concluded the 2013 edition. The Hague Academy of International Law awards a high-level diploma for students who already have a thorough knowledge of international law and who pass an examination
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of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and two Nobel Prize recipients. Since its creation in 1923, The Hague Academy of International Law has occupied premises at the Peace Palace. Next to the Peace Palace building the Academy’s facilities include the Academy Hall built for international conferences, the Peace Palace Library as well as further administrative accommodations. The new buildings were planned and realized by architects Michael Wilford and Manuel Schupp. Alongside The Hague Academy of International Law the Peace Palace houses highest judicial institutions such as the International Court of
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The Hague Academy of International Law () is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. Courses are taught in English and French and, except for External Programme Courses, are held in the Peace Palace. The Academy is famous for its Summer Courses Programme. The Academy's alumni and current/former faculty include heads of state, foreign ministers, ambassadors, 13 judges of the International Court of Justice, one former Secretary-General
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Cardozo Luna


The Hague, a workshop was conducted on the Philippines’ migrant worker protection laws to the students of the Hague Academy of International Law on July 20, 2010. Ambassador Luna opened the program by citing the Philippines’ membership in the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He also made reference to the directive of President Aquino for the Department of Foreign Affairs and other relevant agencies to be more receptive to the needs and welfare of 8.7 to 11 million overseas Filipino workers. On September 30, 2010
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certainly among the most important encyclopædic publications on private and public international law. The Summer programme is directed to advanced students and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of international law, public or private. The summer courses are open to candidates who have completed at least four years of studying at university, including subjects of international law, and who can prove to the Curatorium that they possess a sufficient knowledge of the subject; to candidates holding a 3-year law degree at the opening of the session of the Academy. All candidates must master one
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principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (in French : Recueil des cours de l'Académie de droit international de La Haye). All the volumes of the Collected Courses which have been published since 1923 are available, since the very first volume (green binder), also in electronic format and paperback books for some courses. The series The Hague Academy of International Law Monographs, proposes revised and updated versions of certain courses given during the Summer programme.
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Justice and the Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In the context of the movement for the establishment of peace through law, the idea of creating an Academy of International Law was mooted at the Hague Conference in 1907 (having previously been voiced by the Institut de Droit International as early as 1873). The Dutch Government took up the idea, and the International Law Association in turn examined the question. The Dutch lawyer Tobias M. C. Asser proposed a plan that envisaged more or less what the Academy was to become,
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


operating mainly in the English-speaking world. However, after World War I the Endowment built libraries in Belgium, France and Serbia in three cities which had been badly damaged in the war. On July 14, 1923, the Hague Academy of International Law, an initiative of the Endowment, was formally opened in the Peace Palace at The Hague. The Peace Palace had been built by the Carnegie Foundation (Netherlands) in 1913 to house the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a library of international law. In 1925, Nicholas
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Sobhi Mahmassani


1966, he gave a series of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law on International law and relations in Islam. He was elected as a Member of the Arab Academies of Damascus, Cairo and Baghdad. As a scholar of Islamic law, Mahmassani was noted for being open-minded towards other cultures and faiths, and is frequently quoted in discussions of "Liberal Islam". He actively participated in international conferences on cultural exchanges and inter-faith dialogue. Most notable were his participation in the UNESCO conferences in Florence,
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Permanent Court of Arbitration


The organization is not a United Nations agency, but the PCA is an official United Nations Observer. The Peace Palace was built from 1907 to 1913 for the PCA in The Hague. In addition, the building houses the Hague Academy of International Law, Peace Palace Library and the International Court of Justice. The PCA is not a court in the conventional understanding of that term but an administrative organization with the object of having permanent and readily available means to serve as the registry for purposes of international arbitration and other related procedures,
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Haris Pamboukis


under graduate and post graduate level Private International Law, International Business Transactions and International Arbitration. In 2003, he taught a course at the Hague Academy of International Law, under the title “Droit international privé holistique: droit uniforme et droit international privé”, which was published in the essays of the Hague Academy of International Law in 2008. Since 2014, he has been responsible for the supervision and guidance of a group of undergraduate students of the Athens Law School, which participated in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2015
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Roberto Ago


at the Hague Academy in 1939, 1956, 1971, and 1983, on topics ranging from international torts to the Grotian conception of international law. He also served as Chairman of the Hague Academy Curatorium for the last 20 years of his life. In 1970 Ago was awarded honorary membership in the American Society of International Law. He served as a delegate to international conferences on the law of the sea and on diplomatic relations. In addition, Ago presided over the Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties from 1968 to 1969.
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in either public international law or private international law. Few Diplomas are awarded each year, the examination being highly selective. The Academy awards each year 4 doctoral scholarships. The beneficiaries stay for two months (July and August) in The Hague to pursue their doctoral researches. They can access the Peace Palace Library and attend the Summer Courses. The candidates should come from a developing country and live there, their doctoral thesis should be in the process of completion. Since 1923, all courses given at the Academy are, in
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Shabtai Rosenne


Hague. He was also a member of the Court's Steering Committee. He returned to Britain and lectured in international law and naval law at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, from 1946 to 1947. Rosenne taught at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1954 and 2001. He became a member of the Institute of International Law in 1963. After leaving public service, Rosenne became a member of the faculty (with the rank of Professor) at Bar Ilan University. He also taught at the Rhodes Oceans Academy
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Francisco Rezek


at Rio Branco Institute (the official diplomatic school of Brazil) from 1976 to 1997. Rezek was a Lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1986 and at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1989. Rezek is also the president of several conferences, a lecturer and an examiner for professorship contests in the leading Brazilian universities (since 1971). He is currently professor of International Law Theory at University Center of Brasília (UniCEUB). He became Attorney of the Republic in 1972
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Hague–Visby Rules


carrier. However, the Hague and Hague–Visby Rules were hardly a charter of new protections for cargo-owners; the English common law prior to 1924 provided more protection for cargo-owners, and imposed more liabilities upon "common carriers". The official title of the Hague Rules the "International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading". After being amended by the Brussels Amendments (officially the "Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating
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International child abduction in Japan


However, compliance with Family Court rulings is essentially voluntary, which renders any ruling unenforceable unless both parents agree." Yuko Nishitani, an associate professor at Tohoku University and director of the Hague Academy of International Law, agreed, saying that "the real reason Japan has not signed the Hague Convention is that no enforcement mechanism exists in the country. Signing the convention would expose these flaws." An official of Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, "The Japanese government's position is 'not interfering in civil affairs.'"
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University for Peace


The Hague), which is housed at the Academy Building of the Peace Palace, next to The Hague Academy of International Law. UPEACE The Hague will focus on education and research at the forefront of peace studies, closely cooperating with academic and policy-oriented institutions in The Hague region. UPEACE The Hague will initially advance three fields where it can be innovative and complementary: Peace & Conflict Studies, Water & Peace, and Urban Peace & Security. In addition, UPEACE The Hague will strengthen peace education in The Hague region
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T.M.C. Asser Instituut


-winner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). He also advocated for the creation of an international academy of law, which led to founding of the "Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée" with John Westlake and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, the Institut de Droit International and the creation of the Hague Academy of International Law. The T.M.C. Asser Instituut aims towards fundamental and independent
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Tobias Asser


Court of Arbitration, which was established as a result of the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 (the Pious Fund of the Californias Case). He also took a hand in the establishment of what would become the Hague Academy of International Law, though he did not live to see its foundation. Asser died on 29 July 1913 in The Hague. A research institute in the fields of Private and Public International Law, European Law and International Commercial Arbitration is named after Tobias Michael Carel Asser. This is the T.M.C. Asser Instituut,
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Assad Kotaite


Hague Academy of International Law, and was elected as President of the Association of Attendees and Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law in 1952. Returning to Lebanon in 1953, he accepted the post of Chief of Legal Services for International Agreements and External Relations at the Lebanese Directorate of Civil Aviation. In 1956, he became Lebanese Representative to the ICAO Council, serving until 1962. From 1963 to 1964, he served as Chief of Administrative Services for the Lebanese Directorate-General of Transport. In 1965, he was reappointed
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Geeta Madhavan


the Doctoral Scholarship for Advance Research in International Terrorism by The Hague Academy of International Law at The Hague, The Netherlands in 1997 and the only person from Asia for that year. She is visiting faculty at the University of Madras and guest faculty at the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University teaching post graduate courses on International Maritime Law and International Law and Nuclear Energy. She has published numerous articles on several international issues like terrorism, maritime laws, extradition, human rights and refugees. She has visited the United States on the invitation
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1992), the Order of Rio Branco, Brazil (1999), and the Medal of the Royal Institute of European Studies, Spain (2000). The Academy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 34 times between 1915 and 1956. The Academy is part of the Hague Academic Coalition. The Academy’s academic activities and policies are defined by the Curatorium. It consists of members of different nationalities, who are well known in the academic or diplomatic worlds, or practising international lawyers. The president of the Curatorium is
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women. Today, the Academy is a centre for research and teaching in public and private international law, with the aim of further scientific and advanced studies of the legal aspects of international relations. The UN General Assembly regularly refers to the “valuable contribution” that the Academy “continues to make to the United Nations Program of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law”. The Academy was awarded the Wateler Peace Prize (1936, 1950), the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (
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Wang Tieya


the founding Director of the International Law Institute of Beijing University. Following the Open Door Policy in China, Wang Tieya was feted abroad. He was a visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School (1980-1989), visiting Professor to the Hague Academy of International Law (1984), and also taught at the University of British Columbia (1988), and the University of California (1989). Wang became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was also a member and then honorary member of l’Institut de Droit
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Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance


The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, also referred to as the Hague Maintenance Convention or the Hague Child Support Convention is a multilateral treaty governing the enforcement of judicial decisions regarding child support (and other forms of family support) extraterritorially. It is one of a number of conventions in the area of private international law of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 2007. The convention is open to all states as well as to Regional Economic Integration Organizations as long as they are
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and material aspects of the Academy’s operations. This is a Dutch body whose members are of Dutch nationality, and whose president is always a leading personality (at the moment, the former minister for foreign affairs, Ben Bot). The administrative Council has close ties with the Dutch Carnegie Foundation which owns and manages the Peace Palace. The Summer Courses of the Academy are held in July (Public International Law) and August (Private International Law); each session lasts three weeks. The Academy is not a University:
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Hans-Peter Kaul


1972 to 1973. He passed his Second State Examination in Law (equivalent to admission to the bar) in Heidelberg in 1975. Kaul joined the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law at Heidelberg from 1973 to 1975, as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Hermann Mosler (who later was from 1976 to 1985 Judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague). In 1974, Kaul attended the Academy of International Law in The Hague. In 1975, Kaul entered the German diplomatic service. He served
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International criminal law


on July 1, 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force—and it can only prosecute crimes committed on or after that date. The court's official seat is in The Hague, Netherlands, but its proceedings may take place anywhere. The court can generally exercise jurisdiction only in cases where the accused is a national of a state party, the alleged crime took place on the territory of a state party, or a situation is referred to the court by the United
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Harpreet Singh Giani


well as in England & Wales (as a Barrister). In India, he is in independent practice in Chandigarh and in England & Wales, he practices from The Chambers of Andrew Mitchell, QC. Giani is also an alumnus of the Hague Academy of International Law (2003) and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy (2008) where he studied Shariat (Islamic) law. He was also the first ever Indian to intern in the International Criminal Court at The Hague. He is
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Symeon C. Symeonides


. In March 1999, Symeon C. Symeonides was hired as the dean at Willamette University’s law school located in Salem, Oregon, and served in the position from July 1999–February 2011. He is the Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus. In 2002, he gave the lecture for private international law at the annual meeting of the Hague Academy of International Law. Held at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, he was the 18th American selected for the honor in the 78 years of the conference.
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Hussain Al Baharna


College at University of Baghdad in 1953. He then moved to London where he studied at Lincoln's Inn and became a Barrister-at-Law. In 1956, he received the Postgraduate Diploma in Law from University of London. After that he left for The Hague, the Netherlands where he received Diploma of Hague Academy of International Law. Finally in 1961, he received PhD in Public International Law from University of Cambridge. In the 1960s, Al Baharna was appointed as a legal adviser in Kuwait's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Hague Convention on Parental Responsibility and Protection of Children


The Hague Convention on parental responsibility and protection of children, or Hague Convention 1996, officially Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children or Hague Convention 1996 is a convention of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ("Hague Conference" or HCCH). It covers civil measures of protection concerning children, ranging from orders concerning parental responsibility and contact to public measures of protection or care, and from matters of
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Campus The Hague


of Technology opened a branch at Campus The Hague, in the Wijnhaven Building, offering a masters degree in Engineering and Policy Analysis, which is in line with the other programs offered at Campus The Hague. As part of it's facilities, Leiden University Library opened a library at Campus The Hague. Education is coordinated from the Leiden University College The Hague (LUC The Hague) and the Public Administration Institute. The research branch of Campus The Hague focuses on management, international law and government as well. There are eleven research
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Parliamentarians for Global Action


democracy, peace, justice and development throughout the world. The vision of PGA is "to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world". The main office of PGA is located in New York City, while the seat of the PGA Foundation is in The Hague (The Netherlands), in proximity to the International Court of Justice, the Hague Academy of International Law and the International Criminal Court. PGA promoted the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (
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Max Sørensen


Academy of International Law. At the latter he gave two guest lectures on "Le Conseil de l'Europe" (1952) and "Principes de droit international public" (1960). Sørensen married Ellen Jacobsen, daughter of Major-General Carl Jacobsen in 1940. Sørensen published his first legal paper at the age of 19, "La prescription en droit international". "Les sources du droit international" (1946) and his lecture "Principes de droit international public" at the Hague Academy of International Law (1960)
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Rufus Rodriguez


he was conferred the degree of Doctorate of Humanities (Civil Law) Honoris Causa by the Central Mindanao University at Musuan, Bukidnon, received a Certificate on Summer Courses on Public International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law in Netherlands, he was awarded the YMCA Centennial Leadership Award for Government Service. He was also conferred a Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) degree by University of Negros Occidental Recoletos (UNO-R) in 2012 Attended the 17th Session of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy in Rhodes, Greece
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United Nations


composed of 15 judges who serve 9-year terms and are appointed by the General Assembly; every sitting judge must be from a different nation. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, sharing the building with the Hague Academy of International Law, a private centre for the study of international law. The ICJ's primary purpose is to adjudicate disputes among states. The court has heard cases related to war crimes, illegal state interference, ethnic cleansing, and other issues. The ICJ can also be called upon by other
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The Hague Academy of International Law


The scientific works of the Centre, have been published, since the Centre’s 1985 session, in a publication in which the Directors of Studies report on the state of research of the Centre under their direction. When the work of the Centre has been of particular interest and originality, the reports of the Directors of Studies together with the articles by the researchers form the subject of a collection published in the series The Law Books of the Academy. The Academy organizes Colloquia which works are published in the Law Books of the Academy
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Cardozo Luna


of Acceptance of the Statute of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the Act of Accession to the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The documents were signed by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on the 25th and 29 June 2010. The Philippines officially became the 70th member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the 111th member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on September 12, 2010. As part of the public diplomacy efforts of the Philippine Embassy in
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with courses held from July to October. Asser received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 and contributed a part of the prize money to the Academy; and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace provided a valuable contribution to get it started. The inauguration of the Academy was planned for October 1914. But World War I broke out, and preparations could not be resumed until 1921. When the Summer Courses started on 14 July 1923, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, 353 students originating from 31 countries attended, of whom 35 were
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Dan Sarooshi


and in 2018 he was elected as a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law. He delivered The Hague Academy of International Law lectures on Immunities of States and International Organisations in Domestic Courts. Sarooshi is a professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. He writes on Public International Law and his books include "International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers" (Oxford University Press, 2005) and "The UN and the Development of Collective Security" (
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Hague Conference on Private International Law


The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is an intergovernmental organisation in the area of private international law, that administers several international conventions, protocols and soft law instruments. The Hague Conference was first convened by Tobias Asser in 1893 in The Hague. In 1911, Asser received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular for his achievements with respect to the HCCH. After World War II, the Hague Conference was established as an international organisation. On the initiative
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Götz Schulze


as "masterpiece" and "having no equal concerning detail and conciseness". Schulze went on to become a professor at the Chaire de droit allemand at the University of Lausanne and at the University of Potsdam at the chair for Private law, European Private law, Private International Law and Comparative Law in 2010. Since 2013 he is a judge at the Oberlandesgericht of Brandenburg. In 2014 he was invited to lecture at the Summer Courses of the "Hague Academy of International Law" "(Private International Law—Sports law)
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Declaration of war


war, such as a letter of marque or a covert operation, may authorise war-like acts by privateers or mercenaries. The official international protocol for declaring war was defined in the Hague Convention (III) of 1907 on the Opening of Hostilities. Since 1945, developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in international conflicts, have made declarations of war largely obsolete in international relations. The UN Security Council, under powers granted in articles 24 and 25
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Marcin Czepelak


, French, German and Spanish. He was working in the Kraków Town Hall. He is the associate professor of the Jagiellonian University where he gives lectures on the law of international agreements, private international law and the international law of succession. He has been participating in research projects at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and the University of Cambridge. He completed internship at The Hague Academy of International Law. He specializes in international civil procedure, the protection of foreign investments and the law of treaties. He publishes in Polish,
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International Centre for Counter-Terrorism


of Parliament Coskun Çörüz in April 2008). ICCT is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is implemented by three institutions based in The Hague: the T.M.C. Asser Institute, a foundation for scientific research and education in international and European law; the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, a diplomatic academy studying international relations; and the Institute for Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University College The Hague. The current director of ICCT is Renske van der Veer. She previously served as coordinating senior policy advisor
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Diplomatic Academy (United Kingdom)


The Diplomatic Academy of the United Kingdom is part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The creation of a new Diplomatic Academy was announced in a speech by William Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on 19 September 2013 on the occasion of the opening of the FCO's new Language Centre. The Academy began operating in 2014 and was opened officially by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on 10 February 2015. The Academy is a Directorate of the FCO. The initial Director of the Academy (2014-
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Stuart S. Malawer


Stuart S. Malawer, J.D., Ph.D. is the "Distinguished Service Professor of Law & International Trade" at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. He is an international lawyer who writes on public international law, foreign policy and international trade issues. He earned a law degree from the Cornell Law School and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at The Hague Academy of International Law and St Peter's College, Oxford. He is the author of articles published by such universities as
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Silvana Arbia


Silvana Arbia (born 19 November 1952 in Senise, Italy) was previously the Registrar of the International Criminal Court. After gaining experience as a judge and prosecutor in Italy, Arbia made her international début as a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Arbia obtained her master's degree in law at the University of Padua in Italy in 1976 and, while working, continued her training in order to specialise in European law (at the Academy of European Law in Florence) and international law (at The Hague
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Robert Redslob


’.) In his capacity as a professor at the Hague Academy of International Law, Redslob introduced the concept of heimat in relation to international law in 1931. Scholar Nathaniel Berman, who has written extensively on law and international affairs contends that Redslob's work is an example of a modernist tendency that flourished in international law between World War I and World War II. According to Berman, "[f]or Redslob, the clash between the revolutionary aspirations of nationalism and the self-preserving will of established states was nothing less than
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The Hague Justice Portal


‘The Hague’ and ‘Portal’. News and Events: This news section includes up-to-date information about what happens in the international courts and about their crucial judgments and decisions, issued from official sources and edited by legal experts. The event calendar announces legal events, conferences, lectures and speeches taking place in The Hague. Academic Research: This is the focal point of the Portal where court documents, commentaries, articles, press releases and an important bibliography of books are accessible. The Hague Justice Journal
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Shi Jiuyong


Affairs College, Beijing, in 1984. Since the 1980s he has served as an international law representative of the People's Republic of China through various important international conventions and treaties, including the Sino-British negotiations on the status of Hong Kong. Professor Shi is also a former member and chairman of the International Law Commission. He has lectured on international law throughout China and the English-speaking world, including a stint at the Hague Academy of International Law. Shi was elected to the ICJ on 6 Feb. 1994, and
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Heimat


German: "Recht auf die Heimat"; French: "droit au foyer"; Italian: "diritto alla Patria"; Spanish: "derecho a la patria") is a concept that has been gaining acceptance as a fundamental human right and a precondition to the exercise of the right to self-determination. In 1931 at the Académie de Droit International in The Hague (Hague Academy of International Law), Robert Redslob spoke of the right to the homeland in connection with the right to self-determination in "
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Fabrizio Marrella


Fabrizio Marrella, born in Venice, Italy, is Professor of International Law and of International Business Law at the University of Venice. In 2008, he was appointed as the E.MA Programme Director at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) where he was a member of the Board of Directors. Marrella, holds the highest doctorates in Law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University and University of Bologna Law School. He also holds the Certificate as well as the Diploma of "The Hague Academy of International Law
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The Hague University of Applied Sciences


valid entry visa and residence permit. The Hague University of Applied Sciences offers several master's degrees and professional courses. Since 2004, the university has offers masters courses run by the Academy for Masters and Professional Courses (MPC) to ensure higher professional education for career development. Since 2012, the academy offers seven master's degrees, of which two are organised in collaboration with the Open University. MPC currently runs three international masters programmes taught in English: Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Masters in International Communication Management (
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Francisco Rezek


England, earning a Diploma in Law at Oxford University in 1979 (Wolfson College), after undertaking extension courses and research at Harvard University (1965) and at the Hague Academy of International Law (1968). He was a Professor of International Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília from 1971 to 1997 and later became Chair of the Department of Law, serving from 1974 to 1976 and Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies from 1978 to 1979. He moved to Rio de Janeiro and held Professorships in International Law
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Gujarat National Law University


lawyers of the Supreme Court and High Court of Gujarat. It has a visiting Professor and Ambassador Lecture Series program in place to facilitate learning from international level professors. Each GNLU center conducts its own International and National conference and seminars annually. GNLU in collaboration with the Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands, concluded the 2013 edition of the external program of the Academy at the GNLU, which began on 1 November and ended on 8 November 2013. This program was organized for the first time in South Asia since its inception
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Erik Jayme


to 2002, he was a full professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Heidelberg. Jayme is member of the Institut de Droit International whose president he was from 1997 to 1999. Since 2004 he is vice president of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. He is honorary doctor of the universities of Ferrara (1991), Budapest (2000), Montpellier (2003), Porto Alegre (UFRGS) (2003) and Coimbra, "Académicien titulaire" of the Académie
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University of the Philippines College of Law


them are César Bengzon and Raul C. Pangalangan, the only Filipinos who have been elected to the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, respectively, which are permanent international courts based in The Hague. The college is home to several student organizations. The Philippine Law Journal, first published in 1914, is the official law review of the College. The Law Student Government is the official student government of the College. Under its auspices is the Academic Reforms Commission, an independent body that represents the students in the formulation
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The Hague Academy of International Law


Academy's collection. There are between 20 and 24 participants, half in the English-speaking section and half in the French-speaking section. Topics: 2010: International migrations 2011: Remedies for the actions of International Organizations 2012 : Criminal Acts at Sea 2013 : The Legal Implications of Global Financial Crises At the end of the 1960s, the Academy established the Prestigious "External Program", which is normally held each year, in turn in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, upon the invitation of host governments or
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Mohamed Bennouna


diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law. Two years later he earned his doctorate at the University of Nancy in the field of international law with a thesis on military interventions in non-international conflicts. Then in 1972 he worked as agrégé in the subjects of international law and political science at the Sorbonne. In January 1973 he became a professor at the Mohammed V University, at which he served until 1984, including 1975 to 1979 as dean of the Faculty of Law. In addition, he worked in senior positions in
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Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Professor and former Dean at the Faculty of Law of Uppsala University; Jamshid Momtaz, Professor at the University of Teheran; Shinya Murase, Professor at Sophia University, Tokyo; Member of the United Nations International Law Commission; Raymond Ranjeva, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, Professor at the University of Athens; A. (Teun) V.M. Struycken, Professor emeritus at the Radboud University Nijmegen; Former President of the Netherlands Standing Government Committee on Private International Law
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Institute of the Right of Peace and Development - IDPD


The Institute of the Right of Peace and Development (IDPD, French: "Institut du droit de la paix et du développemen"t) is a French research institute in the field of international law located in Nice, France. IDPD was established by René-Jean Dupuy (former president of Hague Academy of International Law) in 1968, and a brainchild of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. It proposes MA, and Ph.D level programmes in various fields of international law and European law, including international security, functioning of
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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The Hague Academy of International Law


it does not have a permanent teaching staff, but its scientific body, the Curatorium, freely calls upon academics, practitioners, diplomats, and other personalities from all over the world whom it considers qualified to give courses, in English or French (with simultaneous interpretation). These courses are given in the form of a series of lectures, on general or special subjects. In principle, the courses are then published in the Collected Courses of the Academy of International Law, which now run to more than 360 volumes and are
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Levan Aleksidze


Tasks; Personal Representative of the UN Secretary General and an organizer at the inter-state seminars arranged by the section. Since 1970 Levan Aleksidze has delivered lectures on the persisting problems of international law at famous scientific and educational institutions, including the Emory and Boston Universities (the United States); the Humboldt University (Germany); the Hague Academy of International Law; the State Universities of Kiev, Azerbaijan and Armenia; the Academy of Human Rights (Greece); the State University of Latvia, etc. Since 1977 Levan
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M. Cherif Bassiouni


of the International Criminal Court. He did not win as Médecins Sans Frontières received the award in 1999. In 2007 he was awarded the Hague Award for International Law for his "distinguished contribution in the field of international law". He was awarded a colloquium in his honour: The Third Hague Prize Colloquium. This colloquium was organized by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law. The winner of the Hague Prize is given the honour of selecting the fundamental principle of law on which the Hague Colloquium
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Hisashi Owada


of Tokyo, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, Columbia Law School, the Hague Academy of International Law, Waseda University, and the University of Cambridge. In between postings he took semesters as a visiting professor in international treaty law, his specialty, at Harvard and at Oxford. He also served as the Bright International Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law in 2010. He has received honorary degrees from Keiwa College, Banaras Hindu University, and Waseda University
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Geneva Securities Convention


The Unidroit convention on substantive rules for intermediated securities, also known as the Geneva Securities Convention, was adopted on 9 October 2009. So far (26 February 2012), it has been signed by only one of the 40 negotiating States (Bangladesh). The adoption of the official commentary is forecasted by December 2010. This convention adopted under the aegis of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) complements the "Hague Securities Convention" adopted on 17 January 2002 by the Hague Conference on Private International Law
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Abelardo L. Valdez


architect of the North American Free Trade Agreement. and of a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area, and served as an advisor on the NAFTA negotiations. He received his LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, J.D. degree from Baylor Law School and a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University. He also pursued graduate studies in international law at The Hague Academy of International Law in The Netherlands. Valdez served as an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. He has lectured and written extensively on international trade and investment issues and
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Bimal N. Patel


and international law journals. He has experience in designing and implementing international and national development and research programmes and projects and networking and coordination with governmental agencies, UN bodies and academic/research institutions in various parts of the world. He has published, edited several books, research papers/articles/surveys in leading academic and international law journals. He possesses practical experience in dealing with international administrative law (international civil service laws) and organisational staff-management bodies. He has delivered lectures at Cambridge University, UK, Hague Academy
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Arnold Mononutu


to Europe to start his studies in the Netherlands. After a couple of years of taking preparatory courses to enroll in a university, he decided to enroll in The Hague Academy of International Law or "Académie de droit international de La Haye" in The Hague. Mononutu initially did not have nationalistic ideals. However, after attending the association for Indonesian students in the Netherlands or "Indische Vereeniging" or "Perhimpunan Indonesia", Mononutu began to realize the nationalism of Indonesia. He became more involved in the organization and was elected
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Åke Hammarskjöld


League of Nations. In 1936 he taught as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. On October 8 of the same year he was elected as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice. He died nine months later in The Hague, at the age of 44. His father, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917. His brother, Dag Hammarskjöld, was the second Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. Åke Hammarskjöld became a member of the Institut
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Curtis Doebbler


from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. He also holds a diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law awarded in 2000. For his legal and humanitarian work Doebbler has received several fellowships and awards, including a Certificate of Recognition, Academy of Graduate Studies, Tripoli, Libya. Award For Work for International Justice (2008); Award for Work for Justice and Human Rights, awarded by An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine (2007); Marquis Who’s Who in American Law 2005-2014
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Lavanya Rajamani


Lavanya Rajamani (born 19 August 1973) is an Indian lawyer, author and professor whose area of expertise is international climate change law, environment law and policy. She is currently a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi since 2006. She has been a Rhodes Scholar and is the youngest Indian academic to be invited to offer a course in public international law at the Hague Academy of International Law in Netherlands. Lavanya Rajamani grew up in south India. She completed her Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from
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Shabtai Rosenne


in Greece, as the Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science in the University of Cambridge, the Bella van Zuylen Professor in the University of Utrecht, and visiting professor in international law at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Virginia. In 2001, after Rosenne was invited to teach his General Course on "The Perplexities of Modern International Law", he became a member of the Hague Academy of International Law. He has also served as a consultant to various governments, including to the United States and Yugoslavia (in the
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Erik Jayme


Erik Jayme (born 8 June 1934 in Montreal) is a German jurist. Until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Heidelberg. From 1997 to 1999 he served as president of the Institut de Droit International and has served as vice president of The Hague Academy of International Law since 2004. Jayme was born in 1934 in Montreal. In 1973/1974, he was a full professor at the University of Münster, afterwards at the University of Munich. From 1983
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Georges Abi-Saab


. He also earned a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law. Abi-Saab held numerous visiting professorships, inter alia, at Harvard Law School, Tunis University, the University of Jordan, the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, as well as the Rennert Distinguished Professorship at New York University School of Law, and the Henri Rolin Chair in Belgian Universities. Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (having taught there from 1963 to
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Giorgio Gaja


the University of Camerino from 1964 to 1969. Giorgio Gaja was appointed as the Professor in International Law at the University of Camerino in 1972. In 1974, he was made full professor of international law at the University of Florence. He was appointed as Dean of the University of Florence School of Law between 1978 and 1981. He has also been visiting professor at many institutions in the United States and Europe. These include Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1977 - 1978, the Hague Academy of International Law in 1981,
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Urbino European Law Seminar


from the scientific cooperation initiative between France and Italy named Galileo. Since the creation of the seminar, a significant proportion of the lectures have been given by professors who have also been guest lecturers at the Hague Academy of International Law : Riccardo Monaco (The Hague 1949, 1960, 1968, 1977), Piero Ziccardi (1958, 1976), Henri Batiffol (1959, 1967, 1973), Yvon Loussouarn (1959, 1973), Mario Giuliano (1960, 1968, 1977), Phocion Francescakis (1964),
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali


from the University of Paris and diploma in international relations from the Sciences Po in 1949. During 1949–1979, he was appointed Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University. He became President of the Centre of Political and Strategic Studies in 1975 and President of the African Society of Political Studies in 1980. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University from 1954 to 1955, Director of the Centre of Research of the Hague Academy of International Law from 1963 to 1964, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at
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Pieter Kooijmans


1973 to 1977. In 1976 and again in 1991, he served as a Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. From 1978 to 1992, he served as a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden. From 1993 to 1994, he served as Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, succeeding Hans van den Broek. In 1995, he returned to his former position as Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden, serving until his appointment to the International Court of Justice. On 13 July 2007
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Fabrizio Marrella


" (1998). He was awarded, on the base of merit, two scholarships: one from the University of Bologna and another one from the National Research Council (C.N.R.) of Italy. Marrella has an extensive background in international law. : he was invited to deliver a course at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2013. He specializes in International Economic Law and focuses primarily on international commercial contracts and investment arbitration also in connection with new human rights issues. He advises on the same matters and his scholarly writings
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Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant


. In 1993 he obtained a master's degree in International law at UFMG with the thesis “The Right to Development as a Human Right". In 1993, Brant was qualified in advanced Studies in International Law, at The Hague Academy of International Law (HAIL). In 1996 and 1997, he obtained diplomas of Advanced Studies in Human Rights at the Institut International des Droits de L’Homme and Advanced Studies in United Nations Reforms at the United Nations Study Programme respectively. From 1996 to 2000, Brant studied at Université Paris X
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A. H. M. Moniruzzaman


with a First Class from the University of the Punjab in 1972. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and obtained B.Sc. in 1975. He secured M.Sc. in international relations from University College London in 1976. After joining Bangladesh Foreign Service, he attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies in the University of Geneva where he received a Certificate in Diplomatic Studies in 1989. In 1986 he attended a professional course on international law at the Hague Academy of International Law under UN/UNITAR International Law Fellowship
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William E. Butler


Kingdom, the Russian Federation, and the United States. In 1985 he delivered a cycle of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law on "Comparative Approaches to International Law". During the late years of perestroika in the Soviet Union and then in the post-Soviet period he took active role in law reform as a recognised expert on many areas of law. Butler's principal treatise is "Russian Law" (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999; 2d ed., 2003; 3d ed., 2009)
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Ditmir Bushati


at TMC Asser Institute, in the Hague. He spent also one year as a TEMPUS Fellow in Greece at the European Public Law Centre of the University of Athens, specializing in EU Law, and has received a diploma from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and from the Academy of American and International Law, Dallas and Abo Academy University, Finland. Bushati has lectured on European Law and the EU enlargement process at different institutions and universities in Albania and Kosovo. He has published numerous scientific papers and articles in areas
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Hamid Khan (lawyer)


of Chaudhry as Chief Justice of Pakistan. Khan regularly lectures on various legal subjects at Punjab University, the Civil Services Academy, the National Institute of Public Administration and the Pakistan Administrative Staff College. He has authored five books on legal subjects, three of which-Islamic Law of Inheritance, Principles of Administrative Law and Administrative Tribunals for civil Servants in Pakistan-are prescribed as Textbooks at law schools. He is an Ebert and DAAD Fellow, as well as a member of The Hague Academy of International Law. His book "
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C. Wilfred Jenks


international conferences including: Jenks carried for many years the main responsibility for the ILO's work in international labour standards and human rights. Jenks was "one of the most prominent and prolific writers on international law of his time. His ... "Some constitutional problems of international organization" ... was for long the unrivalled source of instruction on that subject for professionals and academics alike." Jenks was Professor, Hague Academy of International Law in 1950, 1955 and 1966. He was Storrs Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Yale University, 1965.
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Fernando María Castiella y Maíz


Fernando María Castiella y Maíz (Bilbao, 9 December 1907 - Madrid, 25 November 1976) was a Spanish diplomat, Professor of Private International Law, politician, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain (1957-1969) during Spain under Franco's regime. He read Law and held a Doctorate from the University of Madrid. He also undertook postdoctoral specialisation at the Universities of Paris, Cambridge and Geneva and at the Hague Academy of International Law. He was appointed "Catedrático" of Public International Law at the University
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Gujarat National Law University


. The Hague Academy of International Law has collaborated with GNLU to hold this conference. Diplomats and administrators of more than 10 countries were present. Judges of the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea were among the participants. To address policy formation, interlinked issues and concerns concerning maritime law, GNLU organises a two-day global event annually to conduct research and hold discussions with developed Maritime Nations of Europe, US, Japan, Australia and New Zealand and their R&D institutions with academicians and associated stakeholders
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Hague Conference on Private International Law


Sessions and meetings; as well as all the tasks which are included in the activity of a secretariat. The Permanent Bureau operates three offices, including the organisation's headquarters in The Hague, as well as its regional offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Hong Kong SAR. Since 1955, the HCCH developed 38 international conventions and protocols that establish rules on jurisdiction, applicable law, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and on legal and judicial cooperation. They are open for adoption, accession or ratification by any State
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Adama Dieng


Adama Dieng (born 22 May 1950, Senegal) is the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Adama Dieng holds degrees in Law from Dakar University (CFPA) and in International Law from the Research Centre of The Hague Academy of International Law. His legal career started in Senegal where he held several positions before becoming registrar of Supreme Court of Senegal and, from 1976
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Jacobo Rios Rodriguez


he has participated in the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, The Hague Academy of International Law, 2010. His publications have appeared in three different languages, edited by French publishers (Dalloz, La Documentation française, Pedone, Société de législation comparée ...), English publishers (Hart Publishing - Oxford), Spanish publishers (Tirant lo Blanch) and Belgian publishers (Bruylant). He has also published articles on international law in several newspapers. He has published two monographs and about thirty articles.
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Emmanuel Gaillard


law. One of his most well-known works is his seminal treatise on international arbitration, 'Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration', published in 1999 and frequently referred to by practitioner academics and the national courts worldwide. He recently published the first work on the theory of international arbitration, based on the Course he taught in 2007 at The Hague Academy of International Law. The essay, published in French and in English under the title Legal Theory of International Arbitration, was greeted by the international arbitration community as a
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Curtis Doebbler


; Who’s Who in the World 2006-2010 and Who’s Who in America 2006-2010; a Law Department Teaching Fellowship, LSE, London, UK (1995-1997); Morris Scholarship, London, UK (1995-1997); a Research Fellowship from the Hague Academy of International Law, Den Haag, NL (July 1988); and First Prize at the Helsinki Summer Session of International and European Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (August 1988). Doebbler has taught law at
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Charles Chauvel (politician)


) along with a Certificate in Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law (1997). He was admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1990, and to the New South Wales (Australia) Bar in 2003. He wrote the re-issued Public Safety Title and served as consulting editor for a re-issue of the Gaming Law Title in the Laws of New Zealand Legal Encyclopedia. Chauvel has also co-authored two books, the "New Zealand Employment Law Guide"
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