Pieter Kooijmans

Pieter Kooijmans, 1992

Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (born  July 6, 1933 in Heemstede ; † February 13, 2013 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch lawyer and politician of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij and, since 1980, of its successor party, the Christian Democratisch Appèl (CDA). From 1993/1994 he served as Foreign Minister of his home country and from 1997 to 2006 as a judge at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Pieter Kooijmans was born in Heemstede in 1933 and graduated from high school in Haarlem . He then studied until 1955 Economics and to 1957 law at the Free University of Amsterdam . From 1960 to 1962 he was a research assistant and then until 1965 a lecturer at the university. In 1964 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on constitutional law , and a year later he became professor of international law and European law in Amsterdam. From 1973 to 1977 he worked under Prime Minister Joop den Uyl as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

He then moved to the University of Leiden as a professor of international law , where he worked from 1978 to 1992. In addition, he worked in 1976 and 1991 as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law and from 1985 to 1993 as UN special rapporteur on torture . From January 1993 to August 1994 he was Foreign Minister of his home country in the government of Ruud Lubbers , after which he returned to the University of Leiden. In November 1996 he was elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He held this office for nine years from February 1997 to February 2006.

Pieter Kooijmans was married and had four children. He died in Amsterdam in 2013 .

Awards

Pieter Kooijmans was appointed Knight of the Huisorde van de Gouden Leeuw van Nassau by Queen Beatrix in November 2006 and Minister of State in July 2007 . In addition, he has been Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lions since 1978 and Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau since 1994 . In 1996 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The American Society for International Law awarded him the Goler T. Butcher Medal in 2005 .

The Kooijmans-leerstoel voor vrede, rechts en veiligheid (Kooijmans Chair for Peace, Law and Security), a chair at the University of Leiden that is held for a maximum of three years, is named after him . The former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer became the first owner in September 2009 .

Works (selection)

• Internationaal Public Law in Vogelvlucht. Groningen 1994
• International Organization and Integration. Annotated Basic Documents and Descriptive Directory of International Organizations and Arrangements. The Hague 1997 (as co-editor)
• Realism and Moralism in International Relations. The Hague 1999 (as co-editor)

Web links

Commons : Pieter Kooijmans  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Dr. PH Kooijmans , Parlement & Politiek (Dutch)
• Pieter Kooijmans in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oud-minister Kooijmans overleden