Thomas Buergenthal Served As the United States Judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2000 to 2010

Thomas Buergenthal Served As the United States Judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2000 to 2010

Thomas Buergenthal served as the United States judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2000 to 2010. Between 1979 and 1991, he was a judge and president of the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was as judge and president of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank (1989-94); vice chairman of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. He also was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee; the UN Truth Commission for El Salvador; and the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee. From 1989 – 2000 and again from 2010 – 2016 Buergenthal was the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law & Jurisprudence, George Washington University Law School. He served as Dean of the Washington College of Law of the American University from 1980-1985. His other academic posts included: Professor of Law, State University of N.Y. (Buffalo) Law School; Fulbright & Jaworski Professor, University of Texas Law School; I.T. Cohen Professor, Emory University Law School. While at Emory, he also served as the Director of the Human Rights Program of the Carter Center. Buergenthal earned the following academic degrees: B.A. (1957), Bethany College, West Virginia; J.D. (1960), New York University Law School (Root- Tilden Scholar); LL.M. (1961) and S.J.D (1968), Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of the following honorary degrees: Bethany College, 1981; University of Heidelberg, 1986; Free University of Brussels (V.U.B), 1994; State University of New York (Buffalo), 2000; American University (Washington, D.C.), 2002; University of Minnesota, 2003; George Washington University, 2004; University of Göttingen, 2007; New York University, 2008; St. Edward’s University (Austin, Texas), 2009; Brandeis University (2011); Brooklyn Law School (2011); and the University for Peace (Costa Rica, 2014). Buergenthal is the author and co-author of more than a dozen books and a large number of essays on international law and human rights subjects. In his memoir, A Lucky Child, Buergenthal describes his experiences as one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.He received various prizes and awards, including more recently: 1997 Goler T. Butcher Medal for Excellence in Human Rights, American Society of International Law; 2002 Manley O. Hudson Medal, American Society of International Law; 2008 International Justice Prize, Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation; 2015 Elie Wiesel Award, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; 2015 Olympic Order, International Olympic Committee; 2016 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, German Federal Republic; 2018 Stockholm Human Rights Award..

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