Roberto Cordova
Roberto Córdova (born October 5, 1899 in Mexico City , † 1967 ) was a Mexican lawyer and diplomat . From 1949 to 1955 he worked as a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations and from 1955 to 1964 as a judge at the International Court of Justice .
Life
Roberto Córdova graduated from the University of Texas and the Law School of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . He then worked in the 1920s as a representative of his home country in the Mexico-United States Claims Commission and from 1937 to 1940 in arbitration negotiations with the United States . In 1933 he became professor of international law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City . From 1938 to 1943 he served as legal advisor to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC .
He was also ambassador to Costa Rica in 1943 and Mexico's delegate to the Chapultepec Conference in 1945, which laid the foundation for the Inter-American Treaty of Mutual Assistance , and a member of the Mexican delegation to the San Francisco Conference , to which the Charter of United Nations (UN) was drafted. From 1949 to 1954 he was a member of the newly established international law commission of the UN, for which he acted as a special rapporteur on the topics of reducing statelessness and regulating multiple citizenship . In 1955 he moved to the International Court of Justice in The Hague as a judge , where he worked until 1964.
He was married and the father of one son and two daughters.
literature
- Roberto Cordova. 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. 274
- Cordova, Roberto. In: Ronald Hilton (Ed.): Who's Who in Latin America. Part I: Mexico. Third revised and expanded edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1962, ISBN 0-80-470709-X , p. 30
Web links
- Audiovisual Library of International Law: 12 May 1949 Roberto Córdova (left in the picture) during the first meeting of the International Law Commission
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cordova, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican lawyer and judge at the International Court of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1967 |