José Sette Câmara Filho

Judge at the International Court of Justice (1984). V. l. To right: Morosow , Sette Camara, Elias (President) and Salmon

José Sette Câmara Filho (born  April 14, 1920 in Alfenas , †  August 30, 2002 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian lawyer and diplomat . From 1970 to 1978 he served on the International Law Commission of the United Nations and from 1979 to 1988 as a judge at the International Court of Justice , including from 1982 to 1985 as Vice-President of the Court.

Life

José Sette Câmara was born in Alfenas in the state of Minas Gerais in 1920 and studied law at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws . He later also earned a master's degree in civil law from McGill University in Montreal . In 1945 he joined the diplomatic service in his home country and, after temporarily serving as governor of the state of Guanabara from the end of April to the beginning of December 1960 , was the permanent representative of Brazil to the United Nations Office in Geneva from the end of 1960 to 1961 and in 1961 as ambassador to Canada . At the beginning of November of the same year he took over the post of Prefect of the Distrito Federal do Brasil in Brazil , which he held until the end of August 1962. From 1963 to 1964 he was ambassador to Switzerland , from 1964 to 1968 he was the permanent representative of Brazil to the United Nations (UN) and from 1972 to 1979 he was ambassador to Czechoslovakia .

In addition, he led the Brazilian delegations at meetings of the UN General Assembly several times and was his home country's representative on the UN Security Council from 1964 and from 1967 to 1969 . In 1970 he was elected to succeed his late compatriot Gilberto Amado as a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations and was confirmed in this office for a further five years in 1971 and 1977. He withdrew from the commission in 1978 after having been elected as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague at the end of the year . On this he worked for a regular nine-year term from February 1979 to February 1988 and served as Vice-President of the court from 1982 to 1985. He later acted as an ad hoc judge at the ICJ in one case after being nominated by Libya .

José Sette Câmara taught in 1984 as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law . He died in Rio de Janeiro in 2002 .

Awards

José Sette Câmara was a member of the Institut de Droit international from 1977 and was made an honorary member of the American Society for International Law in 1988 .

Works (selection)

• Pollution of International Rivers. Series: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Volume 186. The Hague 1985
• Methods of Obligatory Settlement of Disputes. In: Mohammed Bedjaoui : International Law: Achievements and Prospects. Dordrecht and Boston 1991, pp. 519-544

literature

• Biographical Note. José Sette-Camara. In: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. Bans 186. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 1985, ISBN 9-02-473177-1 , p. 122
• José Sette-Camara. 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. 324