Oscar Schachter

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Oscar Schachter (born June 19, 1915 in New York City , † December 13, 2003 ) was an American lawyer .

Life

Schachter attended the College of the City of New York, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1936 , and then moved to Columbia Law School , where he worked as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 1939 as the best of his year.

He then worked as a lawyer and represented several federal offices in this role until he accepted a position in the Foreign Ministry as a consultant in 1942 . In 1944 he became an advisor to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and in 1945 traveled to Poland and the Soviet Union for missions . In 1946 he became Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the United Nations and in 1952 Head of the General Legal Division. From 1966 to 1975 he was head of the United Nations Training and Research Institute (UNITAR).

After being a visiting professor at Yale Law School from 1955 to 1971 , he was appointed professor of international law at Columbia Law School in 1975. From 1978 to 1984 he was one of the editors-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law and subsequently an honorary editor until his death. In 1980 he was appointed Hamilton Fish Professor and in 1985 he retired.

Schachter was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations , as well as President of the American Society of International Law from 1968 to 1970 and its Honorary President from 1994 to 1996. He was also a member of the Institut de Droit international since 1965 , of which he was Vice President from 1991 to 1993, and a member of the World Academy of Art and Science . In 1981 he was awarded the Manley O. Hudson Medal for outstanding contributions to international law and in 1991 the Law Alumni Medal for Excellence. In 1992 he received the ASIL Certificate of Merit from the American Society for International Law for his work International Law in Theory and Practice , published a year earlier .

He died on December 13, 2003 in Manhattan at the age of 88 of complications from a heart condition. The then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan published the following statement on the occasion of his death: " Professor Schachter did more than any other official in the United Nations to help shape the rule of law, and was the architect of the legal framework which has guided United Nations peacekeeping for more than 50 years. The Secretary-General gives thanks for the life of this eminent jurist, scholar and international civil servant, whose contributions will continue to benefit the Organization for many years to come. "

Works

The most important works by Oscar Schachter include:

  • Toward against acceptance of UN treaties (with Mahomed Nawaz and John Fried), New York 1971, ISBN 0-405-02236-0
  • Sharing the World's Resources , New York 1977, ISBN 0-231-04110-1
  • International law in theory and practice , 1985
  • The decline of the nation-state and its implications for international law , in: Politics, values, and functions: international law in the 21st century - essays in honor of Louis Henkin, Den Haag u. a. 1997, p. 13 ff.
  • The erosion of state authority and its implications for equitable development , in: International economic law with a human face, Den Haag 1998, p. 31 ff.
  • Linking equity and law in maritime delimitation , in: Liber amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda, Vol. 2, Den Haag 2002, ISBN 90-411-1798-9 , pp. 1163 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oscar Schachter: International law in theory and practice: general course in public international law . Recueil des Cours, Vol. 178, 1982, ISBN 9789024732319 , p. 16.
  2. ↑ http://www.law.columbia.edu/media_inquiries/news_events/2003/Dec_2003/schachter , as of May 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D61E3CF934A25751C1A9659C8B63 , as of May 31, 2008.
  4. ↑ http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=704 , as of May 31, 2008.

literature

  • Lori Fisler Damrosch: Oscar Schachter (1915-2003). In: American Journal of International Law . 98 (1) / 2004. American Society of International Law, pp. 35-41, ISSN  0002-9300

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personal data
SURNAME Schachter, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2003
Place of death New York City