Oscar Schachter

Oscar Schachter ( born June 19, 1915 in New York City; † December 13, 2003 ) was an American jurist.

Life

Schachter attended the College of the City of New York where he earned a Bachelor in 1936, and then moved to the Columbia Law School, where he worked as an editor of the Columbia Law Review and 1939 as valedictorian finished his studies.

He then worked as a lawyer and represented in this role several federal agencies until 1942, he took a job at the State Department as a consultant. In 1944 he became an adviser to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) and traveled in 1945 to missions to Poland and the Soviet Union. In 1946, he became Deputy Director of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, and in 1952 Head of the General Legal Division. From 1966 to 1975 he was Head of the Training and Research Institute of the United Nations ( UNITAR ).

After he had already been from 1955 to 1971 visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, he was appointed in 1975 professor of international law at Columbia Law School. From 1978 to 1984 he was one of the chief editors of the American Journal of International Law and then until his death honorary editor. In 1980 he was appointed professor at Hamilton Fish and professor emeritus in 1985.

Schachter was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as 1968-1970 president of the American Society of International Law and from 1994 to 1996 its Honorary President. He was also a member of the Institut de Droit International, its vice-president, he was from 1991 to 1993, and member of the World Academy of Art and Science since 1965. In 1981, the Manley O. Hudson Medal he was awarded for outstanding contributions to international law and the 1991 Law Alumni Medal for Excellence. In 1992 he was awarded the ASIL Certificate of Merit ( certificate of merit ) of the American Society of International Law for a year before his work published International Law in Theory and Practice.

He died on 13 December 2003 in Manhattan at the age of 88 years from complications of a heart condition. The then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan published on the occasion of death following statement: " Professor Schachter did more than any other official in the United Nations to help shape the rule of law, and what the architect of the legal framework Which Has guided United Nations peacekeeping for more than 50 years. The Secretary - General gives thanks for the life of this eminent jurist, scholar and international civil servant, Whose Contributions will continue to benefit the Organization for many years to come. "

Works

Among the most important works of Oscar Schachter include:

  • Toward resist acceptance of UN treaties ( with Mahomed Nawaz and John Fried), New York 1971, ISBN 0-405-02236-0
  • Sharing the World's Resources, New York 1977, ISBN 0-231-04110-1
  • International law in theory and practice, 1985
  • The decline of the nation -state and its implications for international law, in: Politics, values ​​, and functions: international law in the 21st century - essays in honor of Louis Henkin, The Hague, inter alia, 1997, pp. 13 ff
  • The erosion of state authority and its implications for equitable development, in: International economic law with a human face, The Hague 1998, pp. 31 ff
  • Linking equity and law in maritime delimitation, in: Liber Judge Shigeru Oda amicorum, Vol 2, The Hague 2002, ISBN 90-411-1798-9, pp. 1163 ff
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