Louis Ignacio-Pinto

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Louis Ignacio-Pinto (born  June 21, 1903 in Porto-Novo , †  May 24, 1984 in Dourdan ) was a lawyer , diplomat and politician from the Republic of Benin , which emerged in 1960 from the former French colony of French West Africa and until 1975 bore the historical name Dahomey . From 1947 to 1955, he represented Dahomey in the Conseil de la République (the predecessor chamber of today's French Senate ) and was President of the Supreme Court of his home country from 1967 to 1970 and a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1970 to 1979 .

Life

Louis Ignacio-Pinto was born in Porto-Novo in 1903 and completed his education, which he completed with a doctorate in law and a degree in literature , in his home country, in Nigeria as well as in Lyon and Bordeaux . He then spent a few years in Paris and England . During the Fourth French Republic , from January 1947 to June 1955, he was Senator for Dahomey in the Conseil de la République (Council of the Republic), the second chamber of the French Parliament, which later became today's Senate in the Fifth Republic . He was a member of the Council of the Independent Representatives of the Overseas Territories ( Groupe des Indépendants d'Outre-Mer ).

Later he turned to a diplomatic career and worked inter alia as Ambassador of Dahomey in the United States and as extraordinary and plenipotentiary envoy and permanent representative of his home country to the United Nations (UN). From 1967 to 1969 he was a member of the UN International Law Commission. On January 19, 1967, he was also appointed President of the Supreme Court of Dahomey , which he held until January 31, 1970. He then moved to the International Court of Justice in The Hague as a judge , where he worked for a regular nine-year term from February 1970 to February 1979. He died in Dourdan in 1984 .

Awards

Louis Ignacio-Pinto was a Grand Officer ( Grand Officier in) Ordre National de la République du Bénin and in the French Legion of Honor added.

See also

literature

  • Louis Ignacio-Pinto. 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. 293

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SURNAME Ignacio-Pinto, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Beninese lawyer, politician and diplomat, judge at the International Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto-Novo
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1984
Place of death Dourdan