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Eduardo Valencia Ospina
Born (1939-09-19) 19 September 1939 (age 85)
NationalityColombian
Occupation(s)Lawyer and international civil servant.
Known forSecond longest-serving registrar in the ICJ, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, senior advisor to the Colombian President, counsel and lawyer for different parties before the ICJ, Senior Legal Officer for the UN, Chairman of the International Law Commission, etc.

Eduardo Valencia Ospina (born 19 September, 1939) is a Colombian lawyer and international civil servant.[1] Valencia Ospina holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1963), where he specialized in international law and was also a Special Graduate Studies student from 1963 to 1964.[2] He also holds a PhD in Juridical Sciences and a PhD in Economic Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.[3]

Biography

A member of a wealthy Cali family, Valencia Ospina worked at the United Nations for 36 years before retiring in the year 2000 with the rank of Under-Secretary-General.[4][5] He was Senior Legal Officer at the Office of Legal Affairs, and, most notably, was the Registrar (secretary-general) of the International Court of Justice from 1987 to 2000—the only Latin American to ever hold that position—.[6][7][8] He is also the second longest-serving registrar in the history of the ICJ.[9] In November 2016, he was elected to serve for a third term as a member of the International Law Commission.[10] At the ILC, Valencia Ospina served as First Vice-Chair during its 69th session in 2017,[11] and as Chair during its 70th session in 2018.[12] In 2007, he was appointed special rapporteur for the report on the "Protection of persons in the event of disasters".[13] The Commission adopted the resulting "Draft articles on the protection of persons in the event of disasters" in 2016.[14] The draft articles were subsequently submitted to the United Nations General Assembly and put on its agenda.[15]

Valencia Ospina is a former president of the Latin American Society of International Law.[16][17] He also served on the board of several international law journals, including the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. Most notably, he was the editor in chief of the journal The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals.[18] Ospina is also an international arbitrator and counsel in cases before the ICJ. Most notably, he was a counsel for Colombia in the maritime border dispute case with Nicaragua from 2001 to 2023.[19] In October 2022, Ospina was designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia as the lead counsel.

References

  1. ^ "Eduardo Valencia Ospina, reelegido a la Comisión de Derecho Internacional". Cancillería (in Spanish). 18 November 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Amsterdam: Michael van Rooyen and Eduardo Valencia-Ospina at Harvard Club". alumni.sph.harvard.edu. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  3. ^ "SHARES Lecture: 'The ILC Work on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters', by Eduardo Valencia-Ospina | SHARES". www.sharesproject.nl. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Amsterdam: Michael van Rooyen and Eduardo Valencia-Ospina at Harvard Club". alumni.sph.harvard.edu. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ^ "LE GREFFIER DE LA COUR, M. EDUARDO VALENCIA-OSPINA, FAIT PART DE SA DECISION DE QUITTER SES FONCTIONS LE 5 FEVRIER 2000 | Couverture des réunions & communiqués de presse". www.un.org (in French). Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Amsterdam: Michael van Rooyen and Eduardo Valencia-Ospina at Harvard Club". alumni.sph.harvard.edu. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  7. ^ "World Chronicle 488: Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, ICJ". United Nations Web TV. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  8. ^ Schwebel, Stephen M. (June 2000). "Attainments of Eduardo Valencia-Ospina as Deputy Registrar and Registrar of the International Court of Justice". Leiden Journal of International Law. 13 (2): 341–342. doi:10.1017/S0922156500000248. ISSN 1478-9698. S2CID 144842863.
  9. ^ "Registrar | International Court of Justice". www.icj-cij.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Eduardo Valencia Ospina fue reelegido en Comisión de Derecho Internacional de ONU". HSB Noticias (in Spanish). 5 November 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  11. ^ "International Law Commission". legal.un.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  12. ^ "International Law Commission". legal.un.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  13. ^ "International Law Commission". legal.un.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  14. ^ "Official document of the United Nations". legal.un.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Official document of the United Nations". legal.un.org. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  16. ^ Almeida, Paula Wojcikiewicz; Sorel, Jean-Marc (25 November 2016). Latin America and the International Court of Justice: Contributions to International Law. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317511366.
  17. ^ "Angel V. Horna on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  18. ^ Valencia-Ospina, Eduardo (21 June 2017). "Note by the Editor-in-Chief". The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. 16 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1163/15718034-12341338. ISSN 1571-8034.
  19. ^ "Nicaragua y Colombia a audiencias ante la CIJ | Sciences Po Observatoire Politique de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes / Observatorio Politico de América Latina y del Caribe (OPALC)". www.sciencespo.fr (in French). 10 October 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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