Stephen M. Schwebel

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Judge Stephen M. Schwebel President of the ICJ (1997-2000)

Stephen Myron Schwebel is an American jurist and expert on international law. He is well known for his separate and dissenting opinions as a Judge of the International Court of Justice 1981-2000 and for his involvement in many cases of the ICSID and Permanent Court of Arbitration.

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[edit] Biography

Judge Schwebel was born on March 10, 1929 in New York City. He received his B.A. magna cum laude with highest honours in government from Harvard University in 1950. He then studied at Cambridge University (1951) and the Yale Law School, receiving his LL. B. in 1954. He was admitted to the New York bar the next year; to that of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1965; and of the District of Columbia in 1976. In the years 1967–1981 he was Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Organization at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.

He served at various positions in the U.S. Department of State, Legal Adviser Office in 1961–1981 and he was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1977 to 1980. Judge Schwebel was first elected to the International Court of Justice in January 1981. He was subsequently re-elected twice, and served as the President of the Court in the triennium 1997–2000, which marked one of the busiest dockets (of 22 new cases) in the history of the Court.

Judge Schwebel is at present an independent arbitrator and counsel in Washington, DC, and a door tenant of Essex Court Chambers in London. He has been appointed in 52 international commercial arbitrations and in five intergovernmental arbitrations. He served as President of the inaugural UNCLOS Annex VII Southern Bluefin Tuna (Australia and NZ v Japan) and Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Maritime Delimitation Arbitrations. He specialises in disputes between states and foreign investors, and has acted as arbitrator in some of the largest of such disputes. He has been a member of ICSID's panels of arbitrators and of conciliators since 2000. Judge Schwebel since 2007 was President of the ICSID ad hoc Committee in the case of Malaysian Historical Salvors v. Government of Malaysia and, in 2008-2009, a member of the Abyei Boundary Tribunal between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Revolutionary Movement, as well as the President of three other ICSID ad hoc Committees, including in the cases of Turkish Telecoms v. Government of Kazachstan and Helnan International Hotels v. Egypt. He has been chairman or party-appointed arbitrator in International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), ICSID, AAA, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), LCIA, Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (CAA), and UNCITRAL ad hoc proceedings. Judge Schwebel has also acted as counsel and advocate for Colombia in its territorial and maritime delimitation dispute with Nicaragua, involving Archipelago of San Andres and Providencia, for Belize in its territorial, insular and maritime boundary dispute with Guatemala, and for a number of other governments, corporations, and law firms in international proceedings. President of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund in the years 1994-2009, he is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and since 2007 - a member of World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He was designated by The American Lawyer in 2005 as one of the 'Top 10 Arbitrators' in the world, ranked number 2.

Judge Schwebel is the author of the pioneering International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 1987), celebrated Justice in International Law - Selected Writings of Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (1994), republished by Cambridge University Press in 2008, and some 175 articles on questions of international law and arbitration. He was awarded Yale Law School Medal of Merit (1997), Manley O. Hudson Award (2000) and doctor honoris causa of Miami University Law School (2002). He is a member of the Institute of International Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, AAA, LCIA, International Bar Association, Japan CAA, and a former Honorary President of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). The Judge Schwebel Fellows Suite - comprising three offices for Fellows engaged into international law research during a sabbatical or other leave from a regular position - was constructed and outfitted at ASIL's headquarters, Tillar House, in honour of Former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel's 80th birthday in 2009.

The portrait photograph of Judge Schwebel was made by Max Koot Studio, The Hague[1] and the portrait painted of that photograph was unveiled at ceremony held in Yale Law School on 27 September 2007. During the ASIL Annual Meeting (International Law as Law) in Washington, D.C. in March 2009, Judge Schwebel chaired the Philip Jessup 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee, which included ICJ President Hisashi Owada (2009-2012) and many other experts and authorities in international law. The Former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel Prize for "Best Jessup Oralist" was won during the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition by a member of the team from University of the Andes, Colombia, the team which also won the Jessup Cup for that year.

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  1. ^ Max Koot Studio bv Fotografie - Den Haag and H.E. Former ICJ President Schwebel with Prof. W. Michael Reisman and with then Yale Dean and presently the inaugural Martin R. Flug '55 Professor of International Law and since June 2009 the U.S. Legal Adviser- Harold_Hongju_Koh at ceremony of hanging Judge Schwebel's portrait painted of that photograph in the Yale Law School on 27 September 2007.

[edit] Selected Books, Articles, Speeches, Lectures and Conference Presentations

[edit] Selected State-Company BIT and Commercial Awards

[edit] Selected ICJ-PCA Inter-State Boundary and Other Judgments and Awards

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