Shi Jiuyong
Shi Jiuyong (Chinese史 久 镛; born October 9, 1926 in Zhejiang, then Republic of China) is a Chinese lawyer. He is since 1980 in various legal and diplomatic positions working for the Chinese Foreign Ministry and also a professor at several Chinese universities. From February 1994 to May 2010 he was a judge at the International Court in The Hague.
Life
Shi studied law at the Saint John's University in Shanghai, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1948, and then went to Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1951 with a master's degree in international law. There followed a three-year academic work at Columbia University.
From 1956 to 1958 Shi Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Beijing, then to 1964 lecturer at the Beijing Foreign Affairs College. After that he worked until 1973 as a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Law in Beijing, and from 1973 to 1980 as a Research Fellow at the Beijing Institute of International Studies. In 1984 he was appointed professor of international law at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing and had that position until 1993. At the same time, he was from 1987 to 1988 professor at the Training Centre for Comparative Commercial Law of the Chinese Ministry of Justice.
Shi was several times an attorney, including from 1980 to 1993 for the Chinese Foreign Ministry from 1985 to 1993, the senior Chinese representative in the framework of the Sino - British Joint Liaison Group and from 1989 to 1993 in the Chinese Centre of Legal Consultancy. Several occasions he was in addition also part of Chinese delegations to international conferences and negotiations, among other things, the meetings of the Asian - African Legal Consultative Committee in the years 1981, 1985 and 1993, in consultation with the State Department of the United States in 1983 and 1984 and at the negotiations with the U.S. government over an investment protection agreement (1983 /84).
From 1987 to 1993 Shi was a member of the International Law Commission, including 1990 as Chairman. In this capacity, he represented the International Law Commission at the 45th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (1990) and at the 30th meeting of the Asian - African Legal Consultative Conference 1991 in Cairo.
Shi was adviser to 2005 and has been Honorary President of the Chinese Society of International Law. He is a member of the American Society of International Law and since 2005 President of the Board of Trustees of the Xiamen Academy of International Law. He is also an honorary professor at the School of International Relations (2002), Honorary President of the College of International Law, School of Foreign Affairs in Beijing (2007) and Honorary Professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai ( 2001).
On February 6, 1994 Shi was appointed judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and re-elected in 2003. He served from 2000 to 2003 the office of Vice- President of the Court from 2003 to 2006, he served as president. In addition to his judgeship, he worked for international law as a lecturer at the Hague Academy. On 28 May 2010 he resigned his judgeship. He was followed by Xue Hanqin.
Publications (selection )
- Autonomy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In: Leiden journal of international law. Vol 11, No 1, ISSN 0922-1565, pp. 63-70.
- The role of the International Court of Justice in the peaceful settlement of international disputes. In: Collected courses of the Academy of Xiamen International Law. Nijhoff, Leiden 2006, ISSN 1875-4678, pp. 1-13.
- Maritime delimitation in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. In: Chinese journal of international law. Vol 9, No. 2, 2010, ISSN 1540-1650, pp. 271-291.