W. Michael Reisman

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William Michael Reisman (born April 23, 1939 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American legal scholar . Since 1972 he has been Professor of International Law at Yale University , where he holds the Myres S. McDougal Chair.

Life

Reisman attended Central High School in Philadelphia until 1956 . He then went to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , from which he graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts . 1963, he was from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Bachelor of Laws awarded and in the same year by the International Faculty pour l'enseignement Comparative Law in Strasbourg , the Diplôme de Droit Comparé . Reisman earned his Masters of Laws from Yale University in 1964 and was admitted to the Connecticut state that same year . He received his PhD from Yale in 1965 and took a position as a research fellow.

After he had worked as a lecturer at the Law School of Yale University since 1969, he was appointed professor there in 1972. From 1982 to 1998 he was Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and has held the Myres S. McDougal Chair since 1998. Reisman also taught as a visiting professor in Tokyo , Hong Kong , Berlin , Basel , Paris and Geneva .

Reisman was co-editor for various legal journals. From 1971 to 1983 he was co-editor of the American Journal of International Law , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2003, and from 1971 to 1977 as co-editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law . From 1972 to 1987 he was co-editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution and from 1984 to 1988 co-editor of the journal Policy Sciences .

Reisman was involved in various ways for the American Society for International Law . He was a member of the Board of Directors, the Committee for Professional Development and the Committee for International Humanitarian Law . From 1984 to 1986 he was vice president of the company and has been its honorary vice president since 1996.

Reisman has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Law Association since 1975 , and of the World Academy of Art and Science since 1981 . From 1992 to 1993 he was second vice-president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights , from 1993 to 1994 first vice-president and from 1994 to 1995 president of the commission. He has also been a member of the Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of Commerce since 1998 .

Reisman served on the board of directors of the United States' Refugee Aid Committee in Somalia from 1980 to 1986 and advised the United States Department of State from 1987 to 1992 as a member of a committee on international law. In addition, he was involved in various international disputes as an arbitrator, for example in the arbitration proceedings over the border line of Abyei , in which a judgment was pronounced on July 22, 2009.

Awards

Reisman has received several awards for his services. In 1964 he was awarded the Gherini Prize for the best academic work by a student on a topic of international law from Yale Law School and in April 1981 the Harold Dwight Lasswell Award for Communication in a Divided World from the World Academy of Art and Science . The American Society for International Law awarded him the Certificate of Merit in 1994 and in 1999 he was elected a member of the Institut de Droit international . In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Bahrain First Class and in 2004 the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society for International Law. In 2008, the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens presented him with the Human Rights Award .

Publications (selection)

  • The Supervisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: International Arbitration and International Adjudication . Nijhoff, The Hague 1997, ISBN 9789041104410 .
  • Jurisdiction in International Law . Ashgate, Aldershot 1999, ISBN 1-8401-4093-3 .
  • International Law in Contemporary Perspective . Foundation Press, New York 2004, ISBN 1-587-78653-2 .
  • Foreign Investment Disputes: Cases Materials and Commentary . With R. Doak Bishop and James Crawford. Kluwer, The Hague 2005, ISBN 90-411-2311-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Reisman, W. Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisman, William Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania