Abdullah Ali El-Erian

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Abdullah Ali El-Erian (born March  21, 1920 in Damanhur , †  December 12, 1981 in The Hague ) was an Egyptian lawyer and diplomat . He was a long-time member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations and served as a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1979 until his death .

Life

Abdullah El-Erian was born in Damanhur in 1920 and graduated from Cairo University and Harvard University with a law degree , which he graduated in 1942 . In 1951 he also received his doctorate from Columbia University in the field of international law . From 1943 he worked at the law faculty of the University of Cairo, where he later became a professor and worked until 1961.

From 1959 to 1968 he headed the Department of Legal Affairs and Contracts at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. He then worked as the permanent representative of his home country at the United Nations Office in Geneva until 1979 and as the deputy permanent representative at the UN headquarters in New York City . In addition, he was in the years 1957/1958 and 1962 to 1978 of the International Law Commission of the United Nations in 1976, he was chairman of the Commission. In the meantime he also worked as the Egyptian ambassador to France and Switzerland .

Abdullah El-Erian was a member of the Institut de Droit international from 1967 . At the end of 1978 he was elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He took office in February 1979, but died of a heart attack in The Hague in December 1981, before the end of his regular nine-year term. His successor was Mohammed Bedjaoui from Algeria .

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SURNAME El-Erian, Abdullah Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian lawyer and diplomat, judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Damanhur
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1981
Place of death The hague