Stubborn Petrén

Bror Arvid Sture Petrén (born  October 3, 1908 in Stockholm , †  December 13, 1976 in Geneva ) was a Swedish lawyer and diplomat . He worked particularly in the field of international arbitration and human rights and was, after various high-ranking judicial positions in his home country, from 1967 to 1976 a judge at the International Court of Justice and from 1971 to his death at the European Court of Human Rights .

Life

Sture Petrén was born in Stockholm in 1908 . He completed his law studies at the universities of Lund , Uppsala and Freiburg , and finished it in Lund in 1930. After completing his legal preparatory period and working as a lawyer, he became a judge at the Swedish Court of Appeals ( Svea hovrätt ) in 1943 . Six years later he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where, from 1957 with the rank of ambassador , he took over the management of the legal department until 1963. In addition, from 1948 to 1961 he served as legal advisor to the delegation of his home country to the United Nations , from 1951 to 1963 as Vice-President of the Swedish Labor Court and from 1963 to 1967 as President of Svea hovrätt , the largest of the six Swedish courts of appeal . From 1947 to 1959 he taught as an assistant professor at the Stockholm School of Commerce .

In 1954 he became a member of the European Commission for Human Rights , of which he was also President from 1962 to 1967. At the end of 1966 he was elected as the only lawyer from Sweden to date as judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , where he worked for a regular nine-year term from February 1967 to February 1976. From October 1971 until his death he also worked as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights . In addition, he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1955 and was represented in several ad hoc courts of arbitration on international disputes, including from 1971 in the arbitration tribunal in the Beagle conflict . He died in Geneva in 1976 .

Awards

Sture Petrén was accepted into the Institut de Droit international in 1967 and belonged to the Svenska Academies from 1969 . The University of Lund awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1967 .

literature

• Stubborn Petrén. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 318
• Biographical Notes. M. Sture Petrén. In: Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights 1971. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 1973, ISBN 90-247-1546-6 , pp. 56-59