Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga

Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga (born  June 8, 1918 in Montevideo , †  April 5, 1994 in Punta del Este ) was a lawyer from Uruguay . He completed his legal training at the Universidad de la República and graduated with a doctorate in 1942 . At the same university he was professor of international law from 1946 to 1969 , and he also taught at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay .

He belonged from 1947 the Department of affairs of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) as well as multiple delegations of his country to the meetings of the UN General Assembly on. From 1961 to 1969 he was a member of the UN International Law Commission, during which time he headed the commission in 1963 as Chairman. From May 15, 1968 to December 17, 1968 he held the post of Minister of the Interior of Uruguay. He then worked from 1970 to 1979 as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In the last three years of his tenure, from 1976 to 1979, he was President of the court. During this time he received the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society for International Law in 1978 , which had made him an honorary member ten years earlier. Under his leadership, among other things, a revision of the procedural rules of the ICJ was successfully completed, which had taken around a decade to complete.

Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga returned to his home country for family reasons after the end of his nine-year term. In the following years he worked successfully as a mediator and twice as an ad hoc judge at the IGH. From 1979 he was a member of the newly established administrative court of the World Bank , of which he was president for ten years. He was killed in a traffic accident in 1994. Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga was seen as unaffected by ideological views in his work and is regarded as one of the most outstanding Latin American international law experts of his time.

Works (selection)

• Voting and the Handling of Disputes in the Security Council. New York 1950
• Derecho constitucional de las Naciones Unidas: Comentario teorético-práctico de la Carta. Madrid 1958
• El derecho Internacional Contemporáneo. Madrid 1980

literature

• Stephen M. Schwebel : Eduardo Jiménez De Aréchaga (1918-1994). In: American Journal of International Law . 88 (3 )/1994. American Society of International Law , pp. 512/513, ISSN  0002-9300
• Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 296
• Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/1976 of March 29, 1976, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministries, etc. on www.rulers.org, accessed on February 21, 2014