Hugo Caminos

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Hugo Caminos (born March  16, 1921 in Buenos Aires ; † December 8, 2019 ) was an Argentinian professor of international law . From 1996 to 2011 he was a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea .

After studying in Buenos Aires and the Universities of Columbia in New York and Berkeley in Los Angeles , Hugo Caminos became Professor of International Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1963 , where he taught until 1988. During this time he was also an advisor to the Argentine Foreign Ministry, lecturer at the Hague Academy for International Law and Argentine Ambassador to Brazil .

During his tenure as a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, he was presiding judge of the Chamber for Fisheries Disputes from 1997 to 1999, 2002 to 2005 and from 2008 to 2011.

Publications (selection)

  • Some considerations on harmonization of preexisting 200 mile territorial sea claims in Latin America with part V of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . In: Volkmar Götz (Ed.): Liber amicorum Günther Jaenicke - for his 85th birthday . Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1998, ISBN 3-540-65125-X , p. 465.
  • Law of the sea . Aldershot, Dartmouth 2001, ISBN 1-84014-090-9 .
  • Categories of international straits excluded from the transit passage regime under part III of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea . In: Tafsir Malick Ndiaye, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.): Law of the sea, environmental law and settlement of disputes: liber amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah . Nijhoff, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16156-6 , p. 583.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press Release 296. In: Internationaler Seegerichtshof. December 9, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Caminos, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian professor for international law, judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2019