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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | Georges Scelle |
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March 19, 1878
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| Died | January 08, 1961
(82 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
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| Info | Georges Scelle (19 March 1878 Avranches (Manche) - 8 January 1961) was an international jurist and member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
Scelle attended the Law Faculty and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, where he was awarded a prize for his thesis, "La traite négrière aux Indes de Castille", written under the supervision of Antoine Pillet.
Professor at the Law Faculty of Dijon for 20 years (Public International Law and Industrial Relations Law). Published the first volume of the Précis de droit des gens shortly before joining the University of Paris (1933) where he taught Public International Law until his retirement in 1948. He exerted a considerable influence on the generation which dominated both French public service and academic law circles from the 1930s until today. Influential academics or diplomats such as Georges Berlia, Lazare Kopelmanas, Guy de Lacharrière, Georges Burdeau, Charles Rousseau and René-Jean Dupuy had Georges Scelle as teacher.
Technical adviser to the French delegation at the 5th session of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924
French Delegate at the last session of that Assembly of the League of Nations in 1946.
Member of the Commission of Enquiry on International Labour Conventions (From 1922 to 1958)
Member and vice-president of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation.
Member associé of the Institut de Droit International from 1929.
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1950
Counsel for France and Peru before the International Court of Justice in the Admission (1948) and Asylum (Colombia v. Peru - 1950) cases.
Member of the International Law Commission from its inception (elected on 3 November 1948).
The first "Secrétaire de la présidence" and then Secretary General of the The Hague Academy of International Law (1935 to 1958)
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