Georg Nolte

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His Excellency
Georg Nolte
Judge of the International Court of Justice
(Seat 12)
Assumed office
6 February 2021

Georg Nolte (born 3 October 1959) is a German jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice. He is professor of public international law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and has been a member of the UN's International Law Commission from 2007 to 2021, serving as its chairman in 2017. In November 2020 he was elected Judge of the International Court of Justice by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, and he took office on 6 February 2021.

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Career

Nolte was born in Bonn to the prominent historian and philosopher Ernst Nolte and Annedore Mortier. He studied law, international relations and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Geneva from 1977 to 1983. From 1984 to 1990 he was a junior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and earned his doctorate in law at the University of Heidelberg in 1991 with the dissertation Defamation Law in Democratic States, a comparative analysis of Germany, the United States and the jurisprudence of the European Convention on Human Rights. After holding visiting fellowships at the University of Leipzig and New York University School of Law 1990–1992, he was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law from 1992 to 1999, and earned his habilitation in 1998 with the book Intervention upon Invitation on the use of force by foreign troops in internal conflicts. [1]

Between 1999 and 2004 he held the chair of public international law at the University of Göttingen, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law in 2004. From 2004 to 2008 he held the chair in public international law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, in succession to Bruno Simma. In 2008 he succeeded Christian Tomuschat as holder of the chair of public international law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is also head of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

In 2000 he was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence to lead a study comparing European systems of military law, against the backdrop of the European Union's efforts to create the Common Security and Defence Policy; the study resulted in the book European Military Law Systems (2003; also published in German in 2002). Nolte wrote in the foreword that the prospect of establishing European armed forces required a better understanding of the national military legal systems of the member states. [2]

Since the turn of the century he has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford 2003–2004, a visiting professor at the Panthéon-Assas University in 2004 and a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Law and Public Affairs Program 2013–2014. From 2000 to 2007 he was a member of the Council of Europe's European Commission for Democracy through Law, the Venice Commission. He has been a member of the German Foreign Office's advisory council on public international law since 2006. [3] He is member of the advisory board of the Goettingen Journal of International Law .

He was elected as a member of the International Law Commission by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007. He was reelected in 2011, receiving the highest number of votes among all candidates. [4] Within the ILC, he founded and chairs the study group on "Treaties over Time." [5] In 2017 he was elected chairperson of the ILC. [6]

He was President of the German Society of International Law 2013–2017. He was elected as a member of the Institut de Droit International in 2019. [3]

Judge of the International Court of Justice

On 12 November 2020, Nolte was elected Judge of the International Court of Justice, with 160 out of 193 votes cast in the United Nations General Assembly [7] and 14 out of 15 votes cast in the Security Council. [8] He started his nine-year term on 6 February 2021. [9] Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Nolte is "one of the world's most renowned international legal scholars." [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Biography of Georg Nolte (Humboldt University)
  2. ↑ Georg Nolte (2003). "Foreword," European Military Law Systems. Berlin: DeGruyter Recht
  3. 1 2 Biography of Georg Nolte, UN Security Council
  4. ↑ "The Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations New York - Press Release: Election of members to the International Law Commission (ILC)". New-york-un.diplo.de. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "International Law Commission - Analytical Guide: Treaties over time/Subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in relation to interpretation of treaties". legal.un.org. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Presentation of Mr Georg Nolte, Chairperson of the International Law Commission (ILC), during the 54th meeting of the CAHDI" . Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "General Assembly, in Second Secret Ballot Round, Elects Five Judges to Serve Nine-Year-Long Terms on International Court of Justice | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Security Council Elects 5 Judges to International Court of Justice after Single Round of Voting | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "United Nations General Assembly and Security Council elect five Members of the Court" (PDF). International Court of Justice. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  10. ↑ Außenminister Maas zur Wahl von Professor Georg Nolte zum Richter am Internationalen Gerichtshof, Foreign Office
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