Shigeru Oda

Shigeru Oda (Japanese小田 滋, Shigeru Oda, born October 22, 1924 in Sapporo ) is a Japanese lawyer. He was from 1963 to 1976 professor of international law at the University of Tohoku. Subsequently, he worked from 1976 to 2003 as a judge of the International Court of Justice, the Vice President, he was from 1991 to 1994.

Life

Shigeru Oda, who had been trained during the Second World War to the kamikaze pilots who graduated in 1947 to study law at Tokyo University. Subsequently, he became the first Japanese student since the war at Yale University, where he was a student of Myres McDougal Smith and six years later received his doctorate with a thesis on The Riches of the Sea and International Law. From 1953 to 1959 he was associate professor and then to 1976 full professor of international law at the Tohoku University in Sendai. In 1969 and 1993 he taught at the Hague Academy of International Law, whose board of trustees he joined in 1987. From 1976 to 2003, he worked for three complete terms of office of nine years as a judge at the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ), resulting in one of the longest tenures in the history of the Court. During this time, he was from 1991 to 1994 Vice- President of the Court.

Focus of his academic and practical ministry was the law of the sea. He represented his native country, among others, 1958-1975 as a delegate at the first three Seerechtskonferenzen the United Nations ( UN) and 1968-1973 in the UN Committee on the peaceful uses of the ocean floor. In the years 1967 and 1968 he was a legal advisor to the German government in the negotiations before the ICJ on the German share of the continental shelf in the North Sea.

Awards

The University of Bhopal ( 1980) and the New York Law School ( 1981) awarded an honorary doctorate by Shigeru Oda. Since 1969 he is member of the Institut de Droit International and since 1975 Honorary Member of the American Society of International Law.

Works (selection)

  • The International Law of the Ocean Development. Two volumes. Leiden in 1972 and 1974. Supplementary loose-leaf collection from 1978
  • Practice of Japan in International Law. From 1961 to 1970. Tokyo 1982
  • International Control of Sea Resources. Dordrecht 1989
  • Fifty Years of the Law of the Sea: With a Special Section on the International Courts of Justice. The Hague 2003
Myres S. McDougal Judges of the International Court of Justice Admiralty law Ted McWhinney Jules Basdevant Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Nagendra Singh Taslim Olawale Elias Stephen M. Schwebel Christopher Weeramantry Peter Tomka Integrated Authority File
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