Budislav Vukas

Budislav Vukas (born  January 1, 1938 in Rijeka ) is a Croatian lawyer and professor. He was a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1996 to 2005 and was its vice-president from 2002 to 2005.

Life

After studying at the University of Zagreb and the Hague Academy of International Law , Vukas obtained his doctorate in international law in 1974 . From 1977 he taught as a professor at the University of Zagreb and held numerous visiting professorships. He was also a consultant for the United Nations Environment Program on several occasions and took part in the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea . As a founding member, he was instrumental in building up the Association internationale du Droit de la mer . In the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide case before the International Court of Justice , he acted as an ad hoc judge nominated by Croatia . In the Application of the Interim Accord of September 13, 1995 , Macedonia also selected him as an ad hoc judge.

Publications (selection)

• The Law of the Sea: Selected Writings . Nijhoff, Leiden 2004, ISBN 90-04-13863-3 .
• Humanitarian Intervention and International Responsibility . In: Maurizio Ragazzi (Ed.): International Responsibility Today: Essays in Memory of Oscar Schachter . Nijhoff, Leiden 2005, ISBN 90-04-14434-X , pp. 235-240.
• A Quarter of a Century after UNCLOS III: A Personal Recollection . In: Marcelo G. Kohen (Ed.): Promoting justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law: Liber amicorum Lucius Caflisch . Nijhoff, Leiden 2007, ISBN 90-04-15383-7 , p. 799.
• Some Provisions of the Statute of the International Court of Justice which Deserve Amendments . In: Sienho Yee (Ed.) Multiculturalism and International Law: Essays in Honor of Edward McWhinney . Nijhoff, Leiden 2009 ISBN 978-90-04-17471-9 , p. 277.

Web links

• Budislav Vukas biography in the yearbook of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 1998 p. 65