Hsu Mo

Hsu Mo

Hsu Mo ( Chinese  徐 谟 , Pinyin Xú Mó , W.-G. Hsü Mo ; born  October 22, 1893 in Suzhou , Jiangsu Province , †  June 28, 1956 in The Hague ) was a Chinese lawyer , politician and diplomat . He worked from 1931 to 1941 as deputy foreign minister in his home country, as ambassador to Australia and Turkey, and from 1946 until his death as a judge at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Hsu Mo was born in Suzhou in 1893 and studied law at Peiyang University and George Washington University . He obtained his doctorate in Australia at the University of Melbourne . In the 1920s he worked first as a professor of international law and international relations at Nankai University and later as a judge in various district courts. In 1928 he moved to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, where he worked as a consultant and later as director of the European-American and Asian departments. Three years later he became deputy foreign minister . After ten years in this position, he moved to Australia as an extraordinary and plenipotentiary envoy to Australia in 1941, and from 1944 to 1946 he was his home country's ambassador to Turkey .

After the end of the Second World War he was involved in the work of the United Nations Committee in Washington, DC in 1945 , which formulated the statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In addition, he was rapporteur for the Committee on Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter on Regulations for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes. A year later he was elected judge at the ICJ, where he worked until his death. He was succeeded by his compatriot Wellington Koo .

Hsu Mo was a member of the Institut de Droit international from 1948 . He died in The Hague in 1956 .

literature

• Raymond M. Lorantas: Hsu Mo. In: Warren F. Kuehl (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists. Greenwood Press, Westport 1983, ISBN 0-313-22129-4 , pp. 359/360
• Hsu Mo. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 292
• Death of His Excellency Judge Hsu Mo, Member of the International Court of Justice. Press release 56/12 of the International Court of Justice of June 28, 1956 on the occasion of the death of Hsu Mo (available online on the ICJ website as a PDF file , approx. 70 kB)

Web links

Commons : Xu Mo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Hsu is the family name here, Mo is the first name.