Georges Abi-Saab
Georges Michel Abi-Saab is an Egyptian lawyer, professor of international law, and an international judge.Early life and education
Abi-Saab was born in Heliopolis. He graduated from Cairo University with a law degree in 1954, and went on to study law, economics, and political science at the Sorbonne, Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, and Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies. He also earned a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law.
Abi-Saab held numerous visiting professorships, inter alia, at Harvard Law School, Tunis University, the University of Jordan, the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, as well as the Rennert Distinguished Professorship at New York University School of Law, and the Henri Rolin Chair in Belgian Universities.Career
Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Honorary Professor at Cairo University's Faculty of Law, and a Member of the Institute of International Law.
Professor Abi-Saab is a former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, a former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission, and former Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.
He was awarded the 2017 Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law.Lectures
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