Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren

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Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (born  December 5, 1928 in Caracas , † December 3, 2016 in Miami ) was a lawyer from Venezuela . He was a professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela from 1956 to 1996 and was a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1996 to 2009 .

Life

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren was born in Caracas in 1928 and studied law and political science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela until 1950 . He then completed postgraduate studies in comparative law at New York University until 1952 and received his doctorate in 1955 from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . A year later he became a professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he taught private international law until 1996 . In addition, he taught at the Catholic University in Caracas from 1957 to 1996 and at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1988 .

From 1958 he worked as a judge at various courts in his home country. Through his participation in appropriate committees, he had an influence on the creation of the Venezuelan constitution as well as the jurisdiction of the country in the field of commercial law and the conflict of laws norms in the field of private law . He also represented Venezuela at several meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law between 1976 and 1993 . Both in Venezuela and abroad, he worked as a mediator , on an international level, particularly in the field of commercial disputes. He has acted as an expert on Venezuelan law in various countries.

From 1985 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague . On February 28, 1996, he was elected Judge to the International Court of Justice . He succeeded his compatriot Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley , who had been a member of the court since 1991 and who died on October 25, 1995 before the end of his nine-year term. In November 1999 Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren was re-elected for a regular nine-year term, which he served from February 2000 to February 2009.

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren was appointed a member of the Institut de Droit international in 1979, he was also a foreign or corresponding member of various foreign academies and learned societies in the field of political science and international law. He died in Miami in 2016 .

Works (selection)

  • La Constitución de 1830 y los venezolanos por Naturalización. Caracas 1969
  • Nuevos antecedentes sobre la Codificación Civil Venezolana 1810–1862. Caracas 1974
  • La Codificación del Derecho Internacional Privado en América. Caracas 1982
  • La nacionalidad venezolana. Caracas 1983
  • Ensayos de Derecho Procesal Civil Internacional. Caracas 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary (Spanish), accessed August 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Parra-Aranguren, Gonzalo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan lawyer and professor, judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2016
Place of death Miami