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Informationen zum Autor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht! CBE! QC has had a distinguished career in international law! combining teaching and practice on an extensive scale. He was called to the Bar in 1950! became a QC in 1970! and has practised extensively before the International Court of Justice and other international jurisdictions! as well as before the English courts. He was ad hoc judge in the Bosnia case before the International Court! has been an arbitrator in NAFTA! ICSID and other arbitrations! the President of the East African Market Tribunal! and a member of the Panel of the UN Compensation Commission! the World Bank and Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunals and of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission. Klappentext A biography of Hersch Lauterpacht, one of the most influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Hersch Lauterpacht was one of the most prolific and influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. This biography contains many extracts from his correspondence that will interest lawyers! twentieth-century historians and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue and introduction; 1. Background and early years, 1897-1920; 2. Vienna: research, engagement and marriage, 1920-3; 3. England and the London School of Economics, 1923-37; 4. Cambridge, 1937-9: the Whewell Chair; 5. The War Years, Part I, September 1939-January 1941; 6. The war years, Part II, February 1941-March 1942; 7. The war years, Part III, April 1942-December 1944; 8. Human rights; 9. The years of practice 1945-50; 10. 1950-4; 11. The International Court of Justice, 1955-60; 12. Epilogue: the man; Appendix I. Sir Hersch Lauterpacht - published writings; Appendix II. Biographical and academic writings on Sir Hersch Lauterpacht QC; Appendix III. Obituaries of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht QC; Appendix IV. Chronology of significant events in the life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht QC; Appendix V. Photo inventory....
