Professor Thomas Buergenthal (born 11 May 1934 in Lubochna , Slovakia)

Biography

Thomas Buergenthal grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland), and later in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. On December 4th 1951, he migrated from Germany to the USA. He studied at Bethany College in West Virginia (graduated 1957), and received his J.D. from the faculty of law at New York University in 1960, and his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees in International law from the Harvard Law School.

Since 2000, Buergenthal has been a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Prior to this appointment, he was Lobingier Professor of International and Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School, and has held numerous prestigious academic positions. He has served as a judge for many years, including lengthy periods on various special UN courts. Buergenthal is a specialist in International law and Human rights law.

Professor Buergenthal is the author of more than a dozen books and a large number of articles on international law, human rights and comparative law subjects.

Selected Works

• Law-Making in the International Civil Aviation Organization (1969)
• International Protection of Human Rights (with L. B. Sohn, 1973)
• Public International Law (with J.G. Maier, 2. Aufl. 1990)
• International Human Rights (2nd Edition 1995)
• Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (With D. Shelton, 4th Edition 1995)

External Links

• AILF Biographie of Thomas Buergenthal
• ICJ Biography of Thomas Buergenthal