Enrique Armand-Ugón

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Enrique Clemente Armand-Ugón (born  August 10, 1893 in Colonia Valdense , Department Colonia , †  1984 in Montevideo ) was a lawyer from Uruguay . From 1945 to 1951 he served as a judge at the Suprema Corte de Justicia de Uruguay , the Supreme Court of his home country, and from 1952 to 1961 at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Enrique Armand-Ugón was born in Colonia Valdense in 1893 and finished his studies at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo in 1918 . In the same year he was admitted to the bar . After working as a judge at a court of first instance (from 1920) and at a court of appeal (from 1938), he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Uruguay ( Suprema Corte de Justicia de Uruguay ) in 1945 , where he served as president from 1949. In addition, he represented Uruguay as a delegate at the twelfth session of the General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1931 and as head of the delegation in his home country at the third and fifth sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 and 1950 .

In February 1952 he moved to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague as a judge , where he served for a regular nine-year term until 1961. In addition, he worked at the IGH from 1962 to 1964 in the case of Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited between Belgium and Spain at the request of Spain as an ad hoc judge. He died in Montevideo in 1984.

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SURNAME Armand-Ugón, Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armand-Ugón, Enrique C .; Armand-Ugón, Enrique Clemente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan lawyer and judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Colonia Valdense , Colonia Department
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Montevideo