Thomas Franck (lawyer)

Thomas Franck Martin (* July 14, 1931 in Berlin, † 27 May, 2009 Manhattan ) was an American lawyer who has worked in the field of international law. He worked from 1957 to 2002 as a professor at New York University, and from 1998 to 2000, appointed as President of the American Society of International Law, the Manley O. Hudson Medal awarded him for his services and an honorary president. In addition, he was admitted to the Institut de Droit International and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Life

Thomas Franck was born in Berlin in 1931 and emigrated with his parents in 1938, shortly before Kristallnacht, first to Switzerland and six months later to Canada. He attained at the University of British Columbia in 1952 a bachelor's degree and a year later a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard University in 1954 and an LL.M. degree and a doctorate in 1959. From 1954 he served as assistant professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Three years later moved to a position as an adjunct professor at New York University, where he was in 1962 appointed Murry and Ida Becker Professor to Full Professor in 1988, and worked until his retirement in 2002. He also taught as a visiting professor at various universities, and in 1993 as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. Throughout his career, he wrote more than 30 monographic works.

During the decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s, Thomas Franck worked in several African countries, including present-day Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone, in the drafting of the respective constitutions. He also assisted as legal counsel, the Governments of Kenya, the Republic of Mauritius, the Solomon Islands, El Salvador and Chad. From 1998 to 2000 he served as president of the American Society of International Law from 1984 to 1993 he was editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law. At the International Court of Justice in The Hague, he was from 1995 to 2007 in a proceeding relating to the applicability of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide to the Srebrenica massacre as a representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina and from 1998 to 2002 in a case on Indonesia's proposal as an ad - hoc judges operate.

Thomas Franck died in 2009 in Manhattan due to an illness from prostate cancer.

Awards

Thomas Franck in 1973 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982 and the years 1981, 1986, 1994 and 1996 respectively, awarded for a published in the previous year outstanding work certificate of merit ( Certificate of Merit ) of the American Society of International Law. In addition, he was by the company in 2003 with its highest honor, the Manley O. Hudson Medal, awarded and appointed Honorary President in 2009.

From the Canadian Council on International Law in 1994, he received the John E. Read Medal. From 1993 he was a member of the Institut de Droit International and, from 2003, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The University of British Columbia, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the University of Glasgow conferred on him an honorary doctorate. At the New York University a scholarship named after him with the Thomas M. Franck Fellowship in International Law.

Works (selection)

  • United States Foreign Relations Law: Documents and Sources. New York and London, 1980-1984
  • Nation Against Nation - What Happened to the UN Dream and What the U.S. Can Do About It New York 1985
  • Political Questions / Judicial Answers: Does the Rule of Law Apply to Foreign Affairs? Princeton 1992
  • Fairness in International Law and Institutions. New York and Oxford 1995
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