Shabtai Rosenne

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Shabtai Rosenne (born  November 24, 1917 in London , †  September 21, 2010 in Jerusalem ) born Sefton Wilfred David Rowson , was an Israeli lawyer and diplomat . Among other things, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 1967 to 1971 and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 1971 to 1974 . In addition, he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations from 1962 to 1971 and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1994 to 1996 . For his work he was awarded the Israel Prize in Law in 1960 and the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society for International Law in 1999.

Life

Shabtai Rosenne (center) next to the later Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban (left), 1949

Shabtai Rosenne was in 1917 in London as the son of Russian born immigrants and achieved in 1938 a LL.B. degree at the University of London . After serving in the Royal Air Force from 1940 to 1946, he worked in the political department of the Jewish Agency , first in London and later in Jerusalem . With the establishment of the State of Israel, he entered the service of its Foreign Ministry, for which he acted as legal advisor from 1948 to 1967. In this role he was a member of the Israeli delegation to the negotiations for the 1949 Armistice Agreement and regularly to the meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations . During this time he also received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

In 1960 Shabtai Rosenne was appointed ambassador and sent by the Israeli government to Argentina to answer the political and diplomatic upheavals that arose from the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and his transfer to Israel and, among other things, to a complaint by Argentina before the United Security Council Nations led to détente. He also represented Israel at the conferences at which the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea was negotiated, as well as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1967 to 1971 , in the UN Human Rights Commission from 1968 to 1970 and as Permanent Representative from 1971 to 1974 at the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva . He was then appointed special envoy and worked in the diplomatic service until 1982.

Shabtai Rosenne was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1962 to 1971 and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 1994 to 1996 . He also represented the United States , Yugoslavia and Japan in several proceedings before the International Court of Justice between 1989 and 2000 . In addition, after the end of his diplomatic career, he taught as a professor at the Bar-Ilan University and as a visiting professor at various foreign universities and in 1954 and 2001 at the Hague Academy for International Law .

Shabtai Rosenne was married in 1940 and has two sons. He died in Jerusalem in 2010 at the age of 92 as a result of a heart attack .

Awards

In recognition of his work, Shabtai Rosenne received the Israel Prize in Law in 1960 and the Manley O. Hudson Medal in 1999 , the highest honor of the American Society for International Law , which he also received in 1968 for his work “The Law and Practice of the International Court ”with an ASIL Certificate of Merit and in 1976 made it an honorary member. He was also awarded the first The Hague Prize for International Law in 2004. From 1963 he was a member of the Institut de Droit international .

Works (selection)

  • 6,000,000 Accusers: Israel's Case against Eichmann. Jerusalem 1961
  • Developments in the Law of Treaties, 1945-1986. Cambridge and New York 1989
  • The Law and Practice of the International Court, 1920-2005. Fourth edition, Leiden and Boston 2006 (previous editions: Leiden 1965, 1985, 1997)
    • Volume I: The Court and the United Nations.
    • Volume II: Jurisdiction.
    • Volume III: Procedure.
    • Volume IV: Basic Documents and Indexes.
  • Provisional Measures in International Law: The International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Oxford and New York 2005
  • Essays on International Law and Practice. Leiden and Boston 2007

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rosenne, Shabtai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowson, Sefton Wilfred David (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli diplomat and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2010
Place of death Jerusalem