Gaetano Morelli

Gaetano Morelli (born May 23, 1900 in Crotone , † May 22, 1989 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer .

He completed his law studies in 1921 with a doctorate at the University of Rome under the influence of Dionisio Anzilotti and later worked as a professor at the Universities of Modena , Padua , Naples and from 1951 at the University of Rome. In 1937 and 1956 he lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law . From 1961 to 1970 he worked for a regular nine-year term as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , where he had previously served as an ad hoc judge in one case.

Gaetano Morelli was admitted to the Institut de Droit international in 1950, whose 56th session, held in Rome in 1973, he chaired, and was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1955 . In addition, he was from 1956 as a corresponding and from 1963 as a full member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei . The focus of his work was international procedural law and international civil procedural law .

Works (selection)

Lezioni di diritto internazionale: Diritto processuale civile internazionale. Padua 1935
La théorie générale procès international. Paris 1938
Lezione di diritto internazionale privato. Padua 1946
Il processo internazionale. Milan 1975
Elementi di diritto internazionale privato italiano. Naples 1986

Gaetano Morelli. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 307
Necrologio: Gaetano Morelli. In: La Comunità internazionale. 44 (2) / 1989. Società italiana per l'organizzazione internazionale, pp. 249-252, ISSN 0010-5066

personal data
SURNAME	Morelli, Gaetano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian lawyer and judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Crotone
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1989
Place of death	Rome