Milovan Zoričić

Milovan Zoričić (born  May 31, 1884 in Zagreb ; †  January 27, 1971 ibid) was a Croatian or Yugoslavian lawyer and football official .

He studied law at the university in his hometown and graduated with a doctorate . He then worked at a court of first instance in Zagreb and later as a public prosecutor and legal advisor to the government of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia , which is autonomous within Austria-Hungary . In 1912 he became president of the newly formed Croatian Football Association .

From 1919 he worked in the civil service of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . In 1929 he became President of the Administrative Court in Zagreb. Six years later he was appointed a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague , and in 1935 he was also active as an ad hoc judge at the Permanent Court of Justice in two cases . In 1946 he was elected as a judge to the newly established International Court of Justice , of which he was a member until 1958. He was the only judge from Yugoslavia in the history of the court.

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. Judges "Ad Hoc". M. Milovan Zoričić. In: Twelfth Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1936, p. 31
• Milovan Zoričić. 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. 339