Mohamed Bennouna

Mohamed Bennouna ( born April 29, 1943 in Marrakech ) is a diplomat and jurist from Morocco. He worked among other things as a professor at the University of Rabat, as a permanent representative of his native country at the United Nations and from 1998 to 2001 as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Since 2006 he is a member of the International Court of Justice.

Life

Mohamed Bennouna was born in 1943 in Marrakech and studied law and political science at the University of Nancy and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In addition, he received in 1970 a 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. He was then in 1972 worked as Agrégé for the subjects of international law and political science at the Sorbonne. In January 1973 he became a professor at the University of Rabat, at which he worked until 1984, including 1975 to 1979 as Dean of the Law Faculty.

In addition, he worked in senior positions in various bodies and organizations of the United Nations (UN). So he acted among others in 1974 as legal counsel of the Delegations of his native country at the UN General Assembly and from 2001 to early 2006 as Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN. From 1986 to 1998 he was a member of the International Law Commission and beyond, 1991-1998 Director General of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.

He then belonged from 1998 to 2001 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. After he had worked from 2002 to 2005 in a case as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) in The Hague, he was elected in November 2005 as a judge at the ICJ. His term began in February 2006 and will run in rotation by 2015.

Mohamed Bennouna is a member of the French Legion of Honour. He is married and father of three children.

Works (selection)

• Le consentement à l' ingérence militaire dans les conflits internal. Paris 1974
• Le droit international relatif aux matières premières. The Hague 1982
• Le droit international du développement. Paris 1983
• La spécificité Arab Maghreb. Casablanca 1990