Charles N. Brower

Charles Nelson Brower (born  June 5, 1935 in Plainfield, New Jersey ) is an American lawyer and expert in the fields of international law and international arbitration . He has worked in private practice since 1961, including as a partner at White & Case from 1969 to 2000 and at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London since 2001 . He has also been a member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal since 1983 . From 1996 to 1998 he served as President of the American Society for International Law , which awarded him the Manley O. Hudson Medal in 2009 . In the "Top Ten Arbitrators" ranking of the American magazine "The American Lawyer", he took first place in 2009 and 2011, after he was already represented in this ranking in 2005 and 2007.

Life

Charles Brower was born in Plainfield , New Jersey , in 1935 and studied at Harvard University , where he obtained an AB degree in 1957 and a JD degree in 1961 . He completed further studies in 1957/1958 with a Fulbright scholarship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Free University of Berlin and 1961/1962 at Columbia University .

From 1961 he worked for the law firm White & Case based in New York City as a lawyer specializing in commercial and criminal law, in which he became a partner in 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he served as legal advisor in the United States Department of State and advised his home country delegations in negotiations with other states. He then worked again as a partner in the law firm White & Case , for which he established their branch in Washington, DC , and subsequently concentrated increasingly on the area of international arbitration .

He has been a member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal since 1983 , including full-time work at the headquarters of the tribunal in The Hague from 1984 to 1988 . In 1990 he lectured at the Hague Academy for International Law . From 1996 to 1998 he was President of the American Society for International Law . From 1999 to 2002 he was involved in proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an ad hoc judge on a proposal from Bolivia . In 2001 he moved from White & Case to the London- based law firm 20 Essex Street Chambers .

In 2013, Brower was appointed as arbitrator by the plaintiff in the arbitration proceedings Vattenfall against the Federal Republic of Germany , which have been pending at the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes since 2012 . Since 2014, he has also been an ad hoc judge selected by Colombia at the International Court of Justice in a legal dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia.

Awards

Charles Brower received a Certificate of Merit from the American Society for International Law in 1998 for the book he co-authored, "The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal" , which also appointed him Honorary Vice President in the same year and in 2009 with the Manley- O. Hudson Medal was her highest honor. A year later he received the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award from the Law School of the University of California, Berkeley . In addition, the parasitic wasp species Barylypa broweri, discovered in Costa Rica and first described in 2000, was named after Charles Brower.

Works (selection)

• International Arbitration in the 21st Century. Irvington 1994 (as Associate Editor)
• The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. The Hague and Boston 1998 (as co-author)

literature

• Biographical Note. Charles N. Brower, born in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, on June 5, 1935. In: Recueil des cours (Académie de droit international). Volume 224. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 1993, ISBN 0-79-232317-3 , pp. 131/132

Web links

• Charles Nelson Brower - Former President of ASIL , short biography (English, with picture)
• 20 Essex Street - The Honorable Charles N. Brower (English, with picture)