Luigi Ferrari Bravo

Luigi Ferrari Bravo (born  August 5, 1933 in Naples , † February 7, 2016 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer . From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice and from 1998 to 2001 at the European Court of Human Rights and was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 1997 to 1998 .

Life

Luigi Ferrari Bravo was born in Naples in 1933 and graduated from the university there in 1956 with a degree in law with a doctorate . He then worked at the university in his hometown as an assistant professor in the field of international law . From 1961 he was a professor at the University of Bari , where he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for International Law in 1968. In 1974 he moved to the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples as professor for international organizations , where he was also dean of the political science faculty from 1975 to 1976. From 1976 he worked at the Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione in Rome before becoming Professor of European Law at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Rome in 1979 . From 1982 he taught international law there and in 1991 took over the field of European law at the law faculty. In 1975 and 1982 he lectured at the Hague Academy for International Law .

Ferrari Bravo was a delegate from Italy at various international conferences, including 1968 at the International Conference on Human Rights in Tehran and from 1975 to 1977 at the diplomatic conference in Geneva to draw up the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions , and represented his home country before the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In 1995 he was elected as the successor to his fellow countryman Roberto Ago, who had died in office, as judge at the ICJ in The Hague , where he worked from June 1995 until the regular end of Ago's term of office in February 1997. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a representative of San Marino as a judge at the ECHR in Strasbourg . In addition, he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1997 to 1998 . In 1991 he was accepted into the Institut de Droit international . He died in Rome in 2016.

literature

• Luigi Ferrari Bravo. 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. 281
• Curricula vitae of candidates nominated by national groups. Luigi Ferrari Bravo. In: Elections to fill Vacancies in Principal Organs: Election of a Member of the International Court of Justice. United Nations Document A / 49/911-S / 1995/450. Submitted by the UN Secretary General to the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council, June 1, 1995, pp. 3-11

Individual evidence

1. ^ Necrologio Ferrari Bravo Luigi Roma, 8 February 2016. In: repubblica.it. La Repubblica , February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016 (Italian).