Hague Academy of International Law
The Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. Courses are taught in English and French and, except for External Programme Courses, are held in the Peace Palace.The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace helped in the creation of the Academy, which was founded in 1914, and opened its doors in 1923. Nobel Peace Prize winner Tobias Asser advocated for the creation of the Academy before his death in 1913. The Academy is closely associated with the International Court of Justice, which is also housed in the Peace Palace. Several current or former ICJ Judges either are alumnus or have served on the faculty. In 1992, the Academy received the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize from UNESCO.
The Hague Academy is famous primarily for the yearly summer course that if offers in public and private international law. The course comprises of six weeks of teaching - the first three weeks devoted to private international law and the next three to public international law. The course is in the month of July every year and attracts law students of the undergraduate level from around the world (with four years of studies or more in law, including international law). Lecturers with strong academic leanings come from various fronts, mostly from the academia, international institutions, government or from law practice, giving lectures on general as well as highly specialized fields of private and public law. The lectures are published by the Academy on a yearly basis as Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit International de La Haye (Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law) and have formed an invaluable part of the existing literature in international law. The continuing significance of the Academy is due not only to bringing the best in the field to teach, but also in making their research available as part of the larger corpus of scholarly writings.
Apart, the Hague Academy also has a very highly specialized Diploma program that is a rare distinction for one to achieve - evidenced by the sheer number of them that the Academy has granted over more than the 56 years since instituting it. The Diploma requires serious scholarship and sets exacting standards for candidates.
External Programme
In 1969, the Academy created its External Programme which sends a team of Academy professors to locations in Africa, Latin America, and Asia for a two week period. The Programme is designed to teach young professors of international law and civil servants from the host country on specific topics of regional interest.
List of External Programme Sessions and Host Locations
1969 Rabat, Morocco;
1970 Mexico City, Mexico (two sessions); Tehran, Iran,
1971 Singapore
1972
1979 Mexico City, Mexico
1985 Rabat, Morocco
1986 Buenos Aires, Argentina
1989 Bogotá, Colombia
1994 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1995 San José, Costa Rica
1996 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1998 Montevideo, Uruguay
2001 Manila, Philippines
2002 Mexico City, Mexico
2003 Cairo, Egypt
2004 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2006 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Notable Alumni, Faculty, and Administration
Alumni
- Ben Bot: Former Foreign Minister of the Netherlands
- William Deane: Governor-General of Australia, (1996-2001)
- Curtis Doebbler: International Human Rights Attorney
- Frank Joseph Guarini: United States Congressman from New Jersey, (1979-1993)
- Nasim Hasan Shah: Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (1993-1994)
- Ted Kennedy: United States Senator from Massachusetts
- Assad Kotaite: President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (1976-2006)
- José Ramos Horta: Prime Minister of East Timor and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- Georg Konrad Morgen: Nazi SS Judge
- Robert Poydasheff: Former Mayor of Columbus, Georgia, United States
- Irma S. Raker: Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
- Francisco Rezek: Former Judge, International Court of Justice (1996-2006)
- Emory M. Sneeden: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1984-1986)
- Peter Tomka: Judge, International Court of Justice
- John V. Tunney: United States Senator from California (1971-1977)
- Joseph Sinde Warioba: Prime Minister of Tanzania(1985-1990)
Faculty and Administration
Boutros Boutros-Ghali : President of the Academy's Curatorium Administrative Council, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-1996)- Pontes de Miranda: Professor (1932), Judge, Brazilian Court of Appeals
- Shi Jiuyong: Lecturer (1987), Judge, International Court of Justice
- Harold Hongju Koh: Visiting Professor (1993), Dean of Yale Law School
- Pieter Kooijmans: Lecturer (1976, 1991), Judge, International Court of Justice (1997-2006)
- Jamshid Momtaz: Member of the Academy's Curatorium Administrative Council, Professor, University of Tehran
- Hisashi Owada: Professor (1999), Judge, International Court of Justice
- Gonzalo Parra Aranguren: Professor 1988, Judge, International Court of Justice
- Raymond Ranjeva: Member, Curatorium Administrative Council, Lecturer (1987, 1997), Judge, International Court of Justice
- Robert Redslob: Professor (1931), French academic who developed concept of heimat with relation to international law
- Francisco Rezek: Lecturer (1986), see further listing under Alumni
- Elihu Root: As President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he helped create the Academy
- Georges Scelle: Hague Academy of International Law Secretary-General (1935-1958)
- Bruno Simma: Director of Studies (1976, 1982, Lecturer (1995), Judge, International Court of Justice
- Wang Tieya: Visiting Professor 1984), Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Eelco van Kleffens: former Secretary-General of the Academy, former President of the United Nations General Assembly (1954-1955)
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