Humphrey Waldock

International Court of Justice (1979). From right: President Sir Humphrey Waldock, Vice-President Taslim Olawale Elias

Sir Claud Humphrey Meredith Waldock (born August 13, 1904 in Colombo , Sri Lanka , † August 15, 1981 in The Hague ) was a British lawyer .

Humphrey Waldock, son of Fredrick William Waldock, attended Uppingham School and Brasenose College . In 1927 he earned a Bachelor of Arts , a year later he received a Bachelor of Civil Law . In 1934 he married Ethel Beatrice Williams, who gave birth to a son and a daughter.

In 1947 Waldock received the Chichele Chair in International Law at the University of Oxford . From 1955 to 1974 he published the "British Yearbook of Law". He was elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights in 1966 . Two years later he was appointed Vice President and in 1971, succeeding Henri Rolin, as President. He retired in Oxford in 1972, followed by the New Zealand lawyer DP O'Connell . His engagement at the ECHR ended in 1974 after he had taken over the post of judge at the International Court of Justice a year earlier . From 1979 to 1981 he was president of this court.

Humphrey Waldock was an honorary member of the American Society for International Law from 1978 . He died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 77.

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• Who's Who in Oxfordshire . London 1936
• International Biographical Archive 50/1981 of November 30, 1981