John Erskine Read

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John Erskine Read (born  July 5, 1888 in Halifax , †  December 23, 1973 in Toronto ) was a Canadian lawyer . He was a professor at Dalhousie University from 1920 to 1929 and a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1958 .

Life

John Read was born in Halifax in 1888 and studied law at Dalhousie University until 1909 and then briefly at Columbia University and from 1910 to 1913 with a Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford . In the following period he worked as a lawyer until 1920 . He then worked at Dalhousie University from 1920 to 1929 as a professor and from 1924 to 1929 as dean of the law faculty.

From 1929 to 1946 he was then legal advisor and from 1944 Deputy Undersecretary of State in the Canadian Foreign Ministry. After the end of the Second World War , he was elected as a judge at the newly established International Court of Justice in The Hague in 1946, where he served until 1958. He is thus the only judge from Canada in the history of the court.

John Read was married from 1915 and had three sons. He died in Toronto in 1973 .

Awards

John Read received honorary doctorates from Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta and McMaster University , and was inducted into the Order of Canada as an officer in 1967 . The John E. Read Medal, which is awarded by the Canadian Council on International Law , is named after him .

Works (selection)

  • The Origins and Nature of the Law. Memorial University of Newfoundland 1955
  • The Rule of Law on the International Plane. Toronto 1961

literature

  • Shabtai Rosenne : Judge John E. Read and the International Court of Justice. In: Canadian Yearbook of International Law. 17/1979. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1980, ISBN 978-0-77-480127-0 , pp. 3-29
  • John E. Read. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 321

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personal data
SURNAME Read, John Erskine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer and judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1973
Place of death Toronto