Mohamed Shahabuddeen

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Mohamed Shahabuddeen (born  October 7, 1931 in Vreed en Hoop ; † February 17, 2018 ) was a lawyer from Guyana . Between 1962 and 1987 he held various high-ranking state positions in his home country, including from 1978 to 1987 as Minister of Justice and temporarily as Acting Foreign Minister , Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister. Between 1988 and 1997 he was a judge at the International Court of Justice , from 1997 he was a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda .

Life

Mohamed Shahabuddeen was born in Vreed en Hoop in 1931 and studied law at the University of London , where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1953 and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) six years later , and his doctorate in 1970 . From 1954 he worked in private practice in his home country before he switched to civil service there in 1959. From 1962 to 1973 he was Deputy Attorney General (Solicitor-General) and from 1971 also worked as an appellate judge. In 1973 he took over the office of Attorney General and in 1978 that of the Minister of Justice. He held both functions until 1987. In addition, he was temporarily acting Foreign Minister and from 1983 to 1987 Vice-President and Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana.

In 1988 he moved to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague as a judge , where he worked for a regular nine-year term until February 1997. He also acted as an ad hoc judge at the ICJ in two cases after nominations by Bahrain and Indonesia . In May 1997 he was elected judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where he first worked as a member of the first chamber of proceedings and later of the appeal chamber from June of the same year. From November 1997 to November 1999 and from November 2001 to February 2003 he was Vice-President of the Court of Justice. From November 1997 he was also a member of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). From 1998 he was also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration . In January 2009 he was elected as a judge to the International Criminal Court , but resigned before taking office on February 16, 2009 for personal reasons.

Mohamed Shahabuddeen was also co-editor and advisor to various legal journals in the field of international law .

Awards

Mohamed Shahabuddeen received an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies in 1992 and was made an Honorary Bencher (appointed senior member) of the Middle Temple Bar Association two years later . He was also an honorary member of the American Society for International Law and the Indian Society for International Law. Since 1993 he has also been a member of the Institut de Droit international , serving as its vice-president from 1999 to 2001.

Works (selection)

  • The Legal System of Guyana. Georgetown 1973
  • Constitutional Development in Guyana 1621–1978. Georgetown 1978
  • From Plantocracy to Nationalization. Georgetown 1983
  • Precedent in the World Court. Cambridge 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tribute by Sir Shridath Ramphal to Mohamed Shahabuddeen , accessed February 19, 2018
  2. Press release on the ICC website ( memento of the original from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed June 14, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.icc-cpi.int

literature

  • Mohamed Shahabuddeen. 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. 325

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