Giorgio Gaja

Giorgio Gaja ( born December 7, 1939 in Lucerne ) is an Italian lawyer. He is since 1975 Professor of International Law at the University of Florence and also belonged from 1999 to 2011 the International Law Commission of the United Nations. He has also served in five cases as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, to which he has served as a regular judge since February 2012.

Life

Giorgio Gaja was born in 1939 in Lucerne and gained in 1960 at the University of Rome a law degree. After research in Vienna, Oxford and The Hague, he was 1962/1963 as a research assistant at the University of Rome, from 1964 to 1969 at the University of Camerino and again from 1969 to 1972 at the University of Rome. In 1968 he received the Habilitation comparable with the Liberation docenza for the subject of international law. Subsequently he served until 1972 as a lecturer and in 1972/ 1973 as an associate professor of private international law and in the years 1973/1974 of International Law at the University of Camerino. From 1971 to 1975 he was also as an adjunct professor at the University of Florence worked, where he is Professor of International Law since 1975 and from 1978 to 1981, served as dean of the law school. In addition, he taught as a visiting professor at various universities in France and in the USA and in 1981 as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law and in 2001 at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies.

In 1986 was Giorgio Gaja of Italy delegate to the conference, on the Vienna Convention was drafted on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations. Three years later, he represented his native country in a case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where in five other cases he worked later as an ad hoc judge. He was nominated in two cases by Italy, in two cases by Nicaragua and in one case by Georgia. From 1999 to 2011 he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations. In November 2011 he was elected judge of the International Court of Justice. Its as scheduled nine -year term began in February 2012.

Giorgio Gaja is married and father of three children.

Awards

Giorgio Gaja, in 1985, an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law of the Pennsylvania State University and since 1993 part of the Institut de Droit international on.

Works (selection)

• L' esaurimento dei ricorsi interni nel diritto internazionale. Milan 1967
• La deroga alla italiana giurisdizione. Milan 1971
• La riforma del diritto internazionale privato e processuale. Milan 1994
• Introduzione al diritto comunitario. Rome 2005