Lazare Kopelmanas

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Lazare Kopelmanas (born July 1 [O.S.] July 14] 1907 in Kovna, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania); died December 9, 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an international jurist and diplomat. He received his legal education in 1930s at the universities of Geneva and Paris. From 1949 to 1977 he was Legal Adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Professor at the University of Paris (1946-1952), University of Geneva (1952-1978), visiting professor at Yale University (1957).

[edit] Other positions

  • Lecturer at the Institute of the High International Studies of the University of Paris (1936–1939).
  • Counsel for France before the International Court of Justice in the 1948 Admission of a state to the United Nations case.
  • Deputy Rapporteur of the Study Committee of the 1st and 2nd Conferences of Non-Governmental Consultative Organizations (Geneva, 1948–1949).
  • Expert representing the United Nations at the First General Assembly of the International Council for Building Documentation (Paris, October 23–28, 1950).
  • “Maître de recherches” at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris, 1945–1956).
  • Observer representing the United Nations at 1955–1956 Geneva Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade negotiations.
  • Representative of the United Nations at the First Meeting of the Organizations concerned with the Unification of Law (Barcelona, September 17–20, 1956).
  • Secretary of the United Nations Conference on International Commercial Arbitration (New York, May 20–June 10, 1958).
  • Plenipotentiary of UNECE at a Special Meeting of Plenipotentiaries convened for the purpose of negotiating and signing the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Geneva, April 10–21, 1961).

[edit] Selected bibliography

  • “Du conflit entre le traité international et la loi interne,” Revue de droit international et de législation comparée, 3rd series, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2 (1937).
  • “The problem of aggression and the prevention of war,” American journal of international law, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1937).
  • “Custom as a means of the creation of international law,” 18 British yearbook of international law (1937).
  • “Essai d'une théorie des sources formelles du droit international,” 21 Revue de droit international (1938-1).
  • De l'ordre juridique déterminant les autorités compétentes pour conclure les traités internationaux. Thèse, Paris, Dactylographié, 1945.
  • L’Organisation des Nations Unies. Paris: Recueil Sirey, 1947.
  • “La théorie du dédoublement fonctionnel et son utilisation pour la solution du problème dit des conflits des lois” in La technique et les principes du droit public / Études en l'honneur de Georges Scelle, Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1950.
  • “Le contrôle international,” 77 Recueil des cours / Académie de droit international (1950–II).
  • “La notion de liberté économique devant la justice internationale,” 81 Journal du droit international. Clunet (1954).
  • “La reconnaissance en droit international,” IX Comunicazioni e studi (1957).
  • “The settlement of disputes in international trade,” 61 Columbia law review (1961).
  • “L'application du droit national aux sociétés multinationales,” 150 Recueil des cours / Académie de droit international (1976–II).

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