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Prof. Marcelo Kohen
Member of the Board of Directors |
An expert in the judicial settlement of international disputes, Marcelo Kohen, born in 1957, is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Associate Member of the Institut de Droit international. He is counsel and advocate in cases before the International Court of Justice and consultant to several governments on matters of international law. He has been co-rapporteur of the International Law Association's Committee on State Succession and co-rapporteur of the “Pilot project of the Council of European on the practice of States regarding State Immunity”. In addition to the judicial settlement of international disputes, his publications mainly focus on territorial and border disputes. He gave courses and seminars in many universities and institutions, such as The Hague Academy of International Law, the University Pantheon-Assas Paris II, the Graduate Institute Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Trento, the University of Lecce, the University of Aix-en-Provence, the University of Palermo, the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and the Geneva Law School. Marcelo Kohen also was, in 2003, the holder of the Henri Rolin Chair in Belgium. In addition to the Institute of International Law, he is a member or associate member of numerous academic institutions, including the Argentine Academy of Law and Social Sciences.
Key works:
- Possession contestée et souveraineté territoriale, Paris, P.U.F.,1997, 582 p., Paul Guggenheim Prize 1997.
- State Practice Regarding State Immunities/ La pratique des Etats concernant les immunités des Etats (co-ed. with Gerhard Hafner and Susan Breau), Leiden, M. Nijhoff and Council of Europe, 2006, xxviii+1100p.
- Secession. International Law Perspectives (ed). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 510p.
Professor Kohen’s webpage at the Graduate Institute
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