François Rigaux

François Ernest Robert Rigaux (born March  26, 1926 in Ixelles ; † December 1, 2013 in Uccle ) was a Belgian lawyer who was professor of civil law and international private law at the Université catholique de Louvain from 1961 to 1991 . From 1996 to 2001 he was a judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . For his work, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium and the Institut de Droit international , as well as being appointed Grand Officer of the Order of the Leopold .

Life

François Rigaux was born in Ixelles in 1926 and graduated in law with a doctorate in 1947 . A year later he also obtained a licentiate in criminology and 1956, with the habilitation comparable Agrégation law degree. From 1956 he taught as a lecturer, from 1959 as assistant professor and from 1961 as full professor of civil law and international private law at the Université catholique de Louvain . From 1980 to 1984 he served as dean of the university's law faculty.

He also taught courses in private international law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1966 and 1989 . He was visiting professor at the Université Lovanium in 1970 , 1975/1976 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles , 1978/1979 at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales in Paris , 1991/1992 at the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur and 1996/1997 worked at the University of Ghent . He retired in 1991 and then worked from 1991 to 1993 at the Université catholique de Louvain, from 1993 to 1995 at the Catholic University of Brussels and from 1995 to 2000 at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis as a visiting professor.

"François Rigaux found that the Pol Pot regime protected human rights more effectively than the Western world."

In the Oil Platforms case (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) , François Rigaux acted as ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice at the suggestion of Iran . From 1996 to 2001 he served as one of three foreign judges at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . He died in Uccle in 2013 .

Awards

François Rigaux was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1988 and a full member in 1999 and has been a member of the Institut de Droit international since 1973 , for which he was vice-president from 1983 to 1985. The University of Burgundy awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1981 . He also received the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Leopold in 1968 and was promoted to Grand Officer in 1988 , and since 1977 he has been Commander of the Order of the Crown .

Works (selection)

• La théorie des qualifications en droit international privé. Brussels 1956.
• La nature du contrôle de la Cour de cassation. Brussels 1966.
• Droit international privé. Brussels 1968.
• Droit public et droit privé dans les relations internationales. Paris 1977.
• Droit positif Belgium. Brussels 1979.

literature

• Biographies of Judges. Judge ad hoc François Ernest Robert Rigaux. In: Yearbook of the International Court of Justice 2002-2003. United Nations Publications, The Hague 2006, ISBN 92-1-170080-9 , pp. 63-65.

Web links

• Académie royale de Belgique - Curriculum vitae: Rigaux, François Ernest Robert CV with bibliography (French; PDF file , approx. 302KB)
• Société française pour le droit international: François Rigaux (1926–2013) (French, with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ^ François Rigaux: Advertisement. In: sudinfo.be. December 1, 2013, archived from the original on June 14, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2019 (French). 
2. ^ Alan Knight: Hun Sen and Democracy. In: mekong.net. 1997, accessed on August 5, 2019 .