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Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; former judge at the European Court of Human Rights; member of the International Law Commission
Teaches the intensive course: The Concept of Due Process in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Biography:
One of Switzerland's most renowned international law and human rights law scholars, Lucius Caflisch, born in 1936, is an Honorary Professor of the Graduate Institute of International and Developement Studies, which he directed between 1984 and 1990. He also was one of the better-known judges at the European Court of Human Rights, between 1998 and 2006, a time during which he was one of the main contributors of the Court's case law on due process. Earlier in his career, he was a legal advisor to the Swiss Federal Departement of Foreign Affairs, a capacity in which he represented Switzerland at major international negotiations leading, inter alia, to the creation of the international criminal court. He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission, of the Institute of International Law, of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in the Framework of the OSCE.
Key works:
- "New practice regarding the implementation of the judgments of the Strasbourg Court", in Italian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 25, 2005, p. 3,
- "Cent ans de règlement pacifique des différends interétatiques", in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 288, 2001, p. 245.
- The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Between States: Universal and European Perspectives (ed.), Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1998.
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