Sergei Alexandrovich Golunski

Sergei Alexandrovich Golunski ( Russian Сергей Александрович Голунский * July 4 ^{. Jul} / 16th July  1895 ^greg. In Moscow ; †  29. November 1962 ) was a Russian jurist and diplomat . From 1952 to 1953 he served as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague .

Life

Sergei Golunski studied law at Lomonossow University in Moscow, graduated in 1917 and then began a doctoral career. At the same time, he worked alternately in several regional prosecutors in the country: from 1923 to 1926 in Nizhny Novgorod and from 1926 to 1929 in Rostov-on-Don and in the Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria . In 1929 Golunski moved back to Moscow, where he was appointed to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian SFSR .

In 1934 Golunski began teaching as a lecturer in criminal law and forensics at the Moscow Institute of Law, and four years later he received his doctorate and professor. The Soviet Academy of Sciences elected him in 1939 as a corresponding member and appointed him head of the legal history department at their legal institute.

Golunski's diplomatic career began in 1943 when he was appointed to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, where he was head of the contract law department until 1952 . Since Golunski had a good command of English and French , he was employed as a translator and legal expert at the Potsdam Conference . In the course of the founding of the United Nations carried out Dumbarton Oaks Conference and at the signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco on 26 June 1945 Golunski was also a member of the Soviet delegation. He represented the Soviet Union as prosecutor in the Tokyo Trials of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East from 1946 to 1948 for the prosecution of war crimes during World War II .

In December 1951, Sergei Golunski was elected judge at the International Court of Justice , succeeding his compatriot Sergei Krylov after his six-year term in office had expired. However, health reasons prevented his move to The Hague and his participation in the sessions of the court, so that he resigned at the end of July 1953. His successor was Fyodor Koschewnikow . In the years up to his death in 1962, Golunski devoted himself again to teaching and research, among other things as head of the institute at the Academy of Sciences, as professor at Lomonossow University and as editor-in-chief of the magazine “Soviet State and Law”.

literature

• Sergei Alexandrovich Golunsky. 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. 285

Web links

• Biography from 1984 at law.edu.ru (Russian)