Suzanne Bastid

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Suzanne Marie Berthe Bastid (also Suzanne Bastid-Basdevant ; born  August 15, 1906 in Rennes , †  March 2, 1995 in Paris ) was a French lawyer who worked in the field of international law in particular . She taught at the University of Lyon from 1933 and at the Sorbonne from 1946 . This made her the first woman in France to receive a professorship at a law school. In 1971 she was also the first woman to be appointed a full member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

Life

Suzanne Bastid b. Basdevant was born in Rennes in 1906 as the eldest of seven children from her parents. She completed a law degree at the Sorbonne , which she completed in 1930 with a doctorate . Two years later she was third best in the examinations for the license to teach ( concours de agrégation ) in public law and then taught international law at the University of Lyon from 1933 to 1946 , including from 1943 as a professor. This made her the first woman in France to be appointed to a chair at a law school.

In 1946 she moved to Paris , where they both at the Sorbonne and at the to the to 1977/1978 écoles Grandes counting university Sciences Po was working. In 1951, 1957, 1962 and 1966 she also gave courses at the Hague Academy for International Law . From 1948 to 1966 she was a member of the Political and Legal Science Section of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). She also founded the journal Annuaire Français de Droit International , of which she worked, and from 1949 to 1957 she was a member of the French delegation to the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations .

In the 1980s, at the request of Tunisia , Suzanne Bastid acted as an ad hoc judge in a case before the International Court of Justice , in which she became the first woman to serve as a judge. She died in Paris in 1995.

family

Suzanne Bastid was married from 1937 and was the mother of three daughters. Her husband Paul Bastid worked, among other things, as a law professor in Paris, from 1924 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1951 as a member of the French National Assembly , as Minister of Industry and Trade under Prime Minister Léon Blum, and in the 1920s as a delegate from his home country to the sessions of the assembly of the League of Nations . Jules Basdevant , Suzanne Bastid's father, was professor of international law at the Sorbonne and the second president of the International Court of Justice after World War II .

Awards

From 1956, Suzanne Bastid was a member of the Institut de Droit international , in which she worked from 1963 to 1969 as general secretary and in 1969 as vice-president. She was made an honorary member and later an honorary president of the French Society for International Law, of which she was temporarily president. In addition, the society awards the Prix ​​Suzanne Bastid, named after it, to students with an outstanding thesis in the field of international law.

She was also accepted as a commander in the French Legion of Honor , as an officer in the Belgian Leopold Order and in 1971 as the first woman as a full member ( membre titulaire ) in the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . The American Society for International Law made her its first female honorary member in 1972 and in 1984 she became the first woman to receive the Manley O. Hudson Medal , the organization's highest honor. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw .

Works (selection)

  • Droit des gens: Le droit des crisis internationales. Paris 1958 (as co-author)
  • Nationalisations et la propriété privée. Paris 1959
  • Histoire des relations internationales et droit international. Paris 1966
  • Les traités dans la vie internationale: Conclusion et effets. Paris 1985

literature

  • Jacqueline Lucienne Lafon: Suzanne Bastid-Basdevant (1906−). In: Rebecca Mae Salokar, Mary L. Volcansek: Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport 1996, ISBN 0-31-329410-0 , pp. 34-37

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personal data
SURNAME Bastid, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bastid, Suzanne Marie Berthe (full name); Bastid-Basdevant, Suzanne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, professor at the Universities of Lyon and Paris
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1995
Place of death Paris