Georges Abi-Saab

Georges Michel Abi-Saab (born  June 9, 1933 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian lawyer . From 1969 to 2000 he was Professor of International Law at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies and also worked as a judge at various international courts. For his work, he was accepted into the Institut de Droit International and as an honorary member of the American Society for International Law , as well as being awarded the The Hague Prize for International Law .

Life

Georges Abi-Saab was born in the Cairo district of Heliopolis in 1933 and graduated from Cairo University with a law degree in 1954 with a Licencié en Droit . He devoted himself to further studies at, among others, the University of Paris , the University of Michigan , where he obtained an MA degree , and Harvard University , where he obtained an LL.M. and an SJD from the University of Cambridge and the University of Geneva , where he received his PhD in political science . In addition, he completed a course at the Hague Academy of International Law with a diploma.

From 1963 he taught at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies , where he was Professor of International Law from 1969 until his retirement in 2000 . In 1987 he also taught at the Hague Academy for International Law. He represented his home country Egypt from 1974 to 1977 as a delegate during the diplomatic conference at which the first two additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 were drawn up. He also represented Egypt, Tunisia , Nigeria and Greece in various proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague . He worked as an ad hoc judge at the IGH in two proceedings.

From November 1993 to October 1995 he served as a judge in the joint appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court for Rwanda . He was also a member of the Administrative Court of the International Monetary Fund and, from 2000 to 2008, of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization .

Awards

Georges Abi-Saab has been a member of the Institut de Droit International since 1981 and was accepted as an honorary member of the American Society for International Law in 2001. In 2013 he received the Hague Prize for International Law . The Université libre de Bruxelles (2001) and the American University in Cairo (2010) awarded him an honorary doctorate . For 2017 he was awarded the Manley O. Hudson Medal by the American Society for International Law .

Works (selection)

• Structure, role and functions of the UN system. Uppsala 1969
• The United Nations Operation in the Congo, 1960-1964. Oxford and New York 1978
• International Dimensions of Humanitarian Law. Geneva 1988
• The Changing Constitution of the United Nations. London 1997

literature

• Profiles: Georges Abi-Saab, Egypt. Member of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body. In: Daniel Terris, Cesare PR Romano, Leigh Swigart: The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases. Brandeis University Press, Waltham 2007, ISBN 1-58465-666-2 , pp. 131-140
• Notice biographique. Georges Abi-Saab. In: Recueil des cours (Académie de droit international). Volume 207. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1996, ISBN 90-411-0317-1 , pp. 23–28 (with bibliography)
• Georges Abi-Saab. Biographical Summary. In: Laurence Boisson De Chazournes (Ed.), Vera Gowlland-Debbas (Ed.): The International Legal System in Quest of Equity and Universality: Liber amicorum Georges Abi-Saab. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and Boston 2001, ISBN 90-411-1582-X , pp. 843/844

Web links

• Audiovisual Library of International Law: Mr. Georges Abi-Saab (English, with picture)
• The Hague Prize: CV Professor Georges Abi-Saab