Egyptian lawyer and international law specialist
Georges Michel Abi-Saab
(born June 9, 1933) is an Egyptian lawyer, professor of international law, and an international judge. He is well known for his defense of the interests of
Third World countries in and within international law
.
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Early life and education
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Abi-Saab was born in
Heliopolis
. He graduated from
Cairo University
with a law degree in 1954, and went on to study law, economics, and political science at the
Sorbonne
,
Harvard University
(
LL.M
and
L.D
), the
University of Cambridge
, the
University of Michigan
(
MA
in economics), and Geneva's
Graduate Institute of International Studies
(
PhD
in political science). He also earned a diploma from the
Hague Academy of International Law
.
Abi-Saab held numerous visiting professorships, inter alia, at
Harvard Law School
,
Tunis University
, the
University of Jordan
, the
University of the West Indies at St. Augustine
, as well as the Rennert Distinguished Professorship at
New York University School of Law
, and the Henri Rolin Chair in Belgian Universities.
Career
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Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of International Law at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
in Geneva (having taught there from 1963 to 2000), Honorary Professor at
Cairo University
's Faculty of Law, and a Member of the
Institute of International Law
.
Professor Abi-Saab played a central role in the drafting of the
Additional Protocol I
, crafting the ultimately successful strategy to ensure the protections of
international humanitarian law
in wars of national liberation, a move that was strongly supported by the Third World, but which many Western nations (most obviously including colonial powers) resisted.
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He also served as consultant to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations
on matters including the
New International Economic Order
.
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Professor Abi-Saab is a former two-time ad hoc Judge of the
International Court of Justice
,
[7]
a former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) and
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
(ICTR), a former Commissioner of the
United Nations Compensation Commission
, and former Chairman of the
Appellate Body
of the
World Trade Organization
(his term ended in 2008).
He was awarded the 2017 Manley O. Hudson Medal of the
American Society of International Law
.
Lectures
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The International Judicial Function
in the
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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