Thomas Buergenthal

Thomas Buergenthal ( born May 11, 1934 in Ľubochňa, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia ) is an American lawyer with German roots.

Biography

Thomas Buergenthal was as a child into the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland) and later deported to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. In the winter of 1944/45, he survived one of the infamous death marches from the concentration camps in occupied Eastern Europe. After the war he lived with his mother in Göttingen.

On December 4, 1951 Buergenthal emigrated to the United States. He studied at Bethany College in West Virginia ( completion 1957) and then completed from 1957 to 1960 to study law at New York University School of Law, where he earned the title of Juris Doctor (JD). He earned a postgraduate degree in then at Harvard University School of Law, the title of Master of Laws ( LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science an ( SJD ).

Buergenthal was from 1962 to 2000 at various American universities Professor:

In addition, Judge Buergenthal was at various international dishes. As of March 2, 2000, he was a judge at the International Court of Justice ( ICJ) in The Hague. With effect from 6 September 2010 he resigned his judgeship and thus ended his lasting until February 5, 2015 term of office prematurely to return to the George Washington University. To his successor at the ICJ Joan E. Donoghue was chosen.

Selected Works

  • Law -Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization (1969 )
  • International Protection of Human Rights (along with LB son, 1973)
  • Public International Law (together with S. Murphy, 4th edition 2007)
  • International Human Rights (together with D. Shelton and D. Stewart, 3rd edition 2002)
  • Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (along with D. Shelton, 4th edition 1995 )
  • A Child of Fortune: As a little boy two ghettos, Auschwitz and survived the death march and found a second life ... or a new life .... Frankfurt, Fischer, 2007. 272 ​​pages. ISBN 3-10-009652-5 (license issue Büchergilde, Frankfurt; reviews of shoa.de, Wilfried Weinke: Every day In: DIE ZEIT 13/2006 p.45; Soraya Levin childhood in the Holocaust at rezensionen.ch on 14. May. , 2007 )
  • A child of fortune, audiobook, artist Uwe Friedrichsen, with an epilogue by Thomas Buergenthal. Dusseldorf, Patmos, 2008. ISBN 978-3-491-91270-0

Awards (selection)

  • Honorary Doctor of Law Faculty of Heidelberg ( July 1986) and the Faculty of Law at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen (April 2007)
  • Goler T. Butcher Medal - (1997) and Manley O. Hudson Medal ( 2002) of the American Society of International Law
  • Gruber Justice Prize (2008)

In Göttingen, 2008, the House of the Municipal Library was named after Buergenthal. In a ceremony and in his presence the naming was completed on 8 April 2008.

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York American University Emory University Judges of the International Court of Justice Joan Donoghue Gruber Prize for Justice Integrated Authority File
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