Mohammed Bedjaoui

Mohammed Bedjaoui ( born September 21, 1929 in Sidi Bel Abbes ) is an Algerian lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was from 1964 to 1970 Minister of Justice from 2002 to 2005, President of the Constitutional Court and from 2005 to 2007 Minister of Foreign Affairs of his home country. From 1982 to 2001 he worked as a judge from 1994 to 1997 as President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Life

Mohammed Bedjaoui graduated from the University of Grenoble, where in 1952 he obtained a diploma from the Institute of Political Studies and in 1955 a doctorate in law, and was in France from 1951 to 1953 as an attorney and thereafter until 1956 at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ) operates. During the Algerian War, he worked from 1956 to 1962 as legal adviser of the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN), which fought for the independence of Algeria from France. In the negotiations from 1961 to 1962 to the Evian Accords, the right of Algeria recognized the France to self-determination, Mohammed Bedjaoui was a member of the Algerian delegation.

After Algeria gained independence with the end of the war, he was from 1962, first General Secretary of the Government and from 1964 to 1970 Minister of Justice. At the same time, he worked from 1964 to 1965 as Dean of the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Algiers. Then he took up in 1979 as ambassador his country in France and since 1971 also at UNESCO, before he was Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations (UN). There he held a variety of posts, so he co -chaired a UN commission of inquiry into the Iran and Vice President of Namibia Council of the United Nations, he also was a member and leader of the delegation of his native country at the United Nations General Assembly. In addition, he was a member since 1965 of the International Law Commission and in 1981 was president of the Group of 77

He was up to his election as judge to the International Court of Justice (ICJ ) in 1982 held at which he followed the Egyptian judges Abdullah Ali El- Erian, who died in December 1981 in the Official These functions. At the ICJ, he worked until 2001 and worked during this period 1994 to 1997 as President of the Court. After his retirement from the International Court of Justice, where he later served as an ad hoc judge in three cases, it was 2002-2005 President of the Constitutional Council, the Algerian Constitutional Court. From 2005 to 2007 he took over as part of a reshuffle of foreign minister of his native country.

Mohammed Bedjaoui was awarded by various universities the honorary doctorate. Since 1979 he has been commander since 2005 and Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour. For his services he was also Ordre du Mérite awarded Alaouite 1963 in Morocco as well as with the 1984 and 2004 in Algeria with the Ordre de la Résistance. He was elected in 1977 at the Institut de Droit International and is also a member of the French Society for International Law and of the Scientific Council at the Institute of Marine Affairs in Monaco.

Mohammed Bedjaoui is married and the father of two daughters.

Works (selection)

  • Fonction publique et international Influences national. London, Paris and New York in 1958
  • La Révolution et le Droit algérienne. English and French edition, Brussels 1962, Arabic edition Damascus 1963
  • Traità et de l' Algérie conventions. Three volumes. Algiers 1963/1964
Dean (education) Judges of the International Court of Justice Order of Ouissam Alaouite Jules Basdevant Percy Spender Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Manfred Lachs Humphrey Waldock Taslim Olawale Elias Nagendra Singh Stephen M. Schwebel Rosalyn Higgins Hisashi Owada Peter Tomka Integrated Authority File
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