M. Cherif Bassiouni

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M. Cherif Bassiouni (2005)

Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni (born  December 19, 1937 in Cairo , † September 25, 2017 in Chicago ) was an Egyptian-American lawyer . He worked from 1964 to 2012 as a professor at DePaul University and is considered one of the leading experts in the field of international criminal law , the creation and development of which he significantly influenced. The awards he received in recognition of his services include the Hague Prize for International Law , honorary doctorates from various universities, the Great Federal Cross of Merit and acceptance into the Legion of Honor .

Life

Cherif Bassiouni was born in Cairo in 1937 as the son of an Egyptian diplomat and joined the Egyptian army after studying law in France . In 1956 he was wounded during the military conflict in the context of the Suez Crisis . After working briefly for President Gamal Abdel Nasser , he continued his studies at the University of Cairo . He then followed his mother to the United States in 1962 , where he received a JD from Indiana University Law School in 1964 and an LL.M. two years later. at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago and also became an American citizen in 1967 .

He received his SJD doctorate from George Washington University in 1973 . From 1964 until his retirement in 2012 he worked as a professor at DePaul University , where he specialized in international criminal law and in 1990 co-founded the International Human Rights Law Institute , which he headed from 1990 to 1997. In addition, he acted several times as a consultant for his home country Egypt, including at the end of the 1970s in the negotiations for the Camp David Agreement . For the United Nations he was a member of several committees and investigative commissions, including the 1978 Expert Committee on the drafting of the UN Convention against Torture , 1993/1994 the Expert Commission on the Investigation of Human Rights Violations in the Former Yugoslavia and in 1995 the Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court . He died on September 25, 2017 at the age of 79.

Awards

Cherif Bassiouni received the Hague Prize for International Law in 2007 and the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award from the Law Faculty of Columbia University in 2012 . The University of Turin (1981), the University of Pau (1986), the Niagara University (1997), the National University of Ireland, Galway (2001), the Catholic Theological Union (2009), the Case Western Reserve University (2010), the Ghent University (2011), Tirana University (2013) and Salzburg University (2013) awarded him an honorary doctorate . For 2014 he was awarded the Goler T. Butcher Medal .

In addition, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in the stages of Commendatore (1976), Grande Ufficiale (1977) and Cavaliere di Gran Croce (2006), the Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria (1990) and the Great Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (2003) and accepted as an officer in the French Legion of Honor and as a commandeur in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques .

Works (selection)

  • Crimes against Humanity in International Criminal Law. The Hague and Boston 1999
  • International Extradition: United States Law and Practice. Dobbs Ferry 2007
  • International Criminal Law. Three volumes. Leiden 2008
  • The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: A World Study on Conflicts, Victimization, and Post-Conflict Justice. Antwerp and Portland 2010

literature

  • Elizabeth Plantz: Bassiouni, Mahmoud Cherif (1937–). In: Elliott Robert Barkan (Ed.): Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2001, ISBN 1-57607-098-0 , p. 31
  • Bassiouni, M Cherif. Jon C. Jenkins, Cécile Vanden Bloock: Who's Who in International Organizations: A Biographical Encyclopedia of more than 12,000 Leading Personalities. KG Saur, Munich and others 1992, ISBN 3-598-10909-1 , Volume 1, p. 76

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Institute Announces the Loss of Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni. Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, September 25, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bassiouni, Cherif M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassiouni, Cherif Mahmoud (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian-American lawyer specializing in international criminal law
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH 25th September 2017
Place of death Chicago