Georges Abi-Saab

Georges Michel Abi -Saab ( born June 9, 1933, Cairo ) is an Egyptian lawyer. He served from 1969 to 2000 as a professor of international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies and has also served as a judge in various international dishes. For his work he was accepted among other things in the Institut de Droit International and an honorary member of the American Society of International Law and awarded the The Hague Prize for International Law.

Life

Georges Abi -Saab was born in 1933 in the Heliopolis district of Cairo and graduated in 1954 from Cairo University to study law with a Licencié en Droit from. , Further studies he devoted himself among others at the University of Paris, the University of Michigan, where he earned an MA degree, Harvard University, where he an LL.M. and an SJD, University of Cambridge and the University of Geneva, where he received his doctorate in political science. In addition, he completed a course at the Hague Academy of International Law with a diploma.

From 1963 he taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, where he served as Professor of International Law from 1969 until his retirement in 2000. In addition, he taught in 1987 at the Hague Academy of International Law. His native Egypt, he represented from 1974 to 1977 Delegate during the diplomatic conference at which the first two Additional Protocols were drafted to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. In addition, he represented Egypt and Tunisia, Nigeria and Greece in various proceedings before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) in The Hague. In two cases he worked at the ICJ as an ad hoc judge.

From November 1993 to October 1995 he served as a judge in the common Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In addition he was a member of the Administrative Court of the International Monetary Fund, and from 2000 to 2008 the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.

Awards

Georges Abi -Saab belongs since 1981 to the Institut de Droit International and was accepted in 2001 as an honorary member of the American Society of International Law. In 2013 he was awarded the The Hague Prize for International Law. The Université libre de Bruxelles ( 2001) and the American University in Cairo ( 2010) awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Works (selection)

  • Structure, Role and Functions of the UN system. Uppsala 1969
  • The United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960-1964. Oxford and New York 1978
  • International Dimensions of Humanitarian Law. Geneva 1988
  • The Changing Constitution of the United Nations. London 1997
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