Olufemi Elias

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Olufemi Elias

Olufemi Elias is a Nigerian lawyer who has been a Registrar in the International Residual Mechanism for the United Nations Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals (MICT) since 2016 .

Life

After attending school, Elias began studying law at the University of Oxford , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Jurisprudence) and a Master of Arts (MA Jurisprudence). He completed another postgraduate study of law at the University of Cambridge with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He also received a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) from the University of London and practiced as a lawyer in Nigeria after being admitted to the bar . He is also an associate member of the Institut de Droit international (IDI).

Between 1998 and 2005, Elias worked for the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), a sub-body of the UN Security Council responsible for litigation and compensation proceedings from the Second Gulf War . He then moved to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague in 2005 , where he was chief legal officer until 2008. Subsequently, he served from 2008 to 2013 for the first time as Executive Secretary of the Administrative Tribunal of the World Bank (World Bank Administrative Tribunal) and then between 2013 and July 2016, before he was legal advisor and director of the OPCW from July 2016 to November 2016 re-Executive Secretary of the Administrative Tribunal of the World Bank .

On November 28, 2016, Elias was appointed as the successor to Australian- born John Hocking by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as registrar at the International Residual Mechanism for the Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals (MICT) of the United Nations , one on December 22, 2010 Resolution  1966 of the UN Security Council created international court of justice , the legal successor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). He is also visiting professor of international law in the School of Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. The American Society for International Law made him an honorary member in 2018.

Publications

  • Watercourse co-operation in Northern Europe. A model for the future , co-authors Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Vaughan Lowe, Den Haag 2004, ISBN 9-0670-4172-6
  • Treaty interpretation and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties , co-authors Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris, Boston 2010, ISBN 9-0041-8104-0
  • The development and effectiveness of international administrative law. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal , Boston 2012, ISBN 978-9004-1-9470-0
  • Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties , Mitauror Malgosia Fitzmaurice, ISBN 9-0775-9606-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Queen Mary School of Law at the University of London
personal data
SURNAME Elias, Olufemi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century