Stephen M. Schwebel
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Stephen Myron Schwebel is an American
United States
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 jurist and expert on international law
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. He is well known for his separate and dissenting opinions as a Judge of the International Court of Justice
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 1981-2000 and for his involvement in many cases of the ICSID and Permanent Court of Arbitration
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.

Biography

Judge Schwebel was born on March 10, 1929 in New York City
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. He received his B.A. magna cum laude with highest honours in government from Harvard University
Harvard University
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 in 1950. He then studied at Cambridge University (1951) and the Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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, receiving his LL. B. in 1954. He was admitted to the New York bar the next year; to that of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1965; and of the District of Columbia in 1976. In the years 1967–1981 he was Edward B. Burling
Edward B. Burling
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 Professor of International Law and Organization at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
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 in Washington, D.C.

He served at various positions in the U.S. Department of State, Legal Adviser Office in 1961–1981 and he was a member of the United Nations
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 International Law Commission
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 from 1977 to 1980. Judge Schwebel was first elected to the International Court of Justice
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 in January 1981. He was subsequently re-elected twice, and served as the President of the Court in the triennium 1997–2000, which marked one of the busiest dockets (of 22 new cases) in the history of the Court.

Judge Schwebel is at present an independent arbitrator and counsel in Washington, DC, and a door tenant
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 of Essex Court Chambers
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 in London. He has been appointed in 63 arbitral proceedings, 6 between States and 57 international commercial arbitrations (including investment disputes between States and foreign investors). He served as President of the inaugural UNCLOS Annex VII Southern Bluefin Tuna (Australia and NZ v Japan) and Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Maritime Delimitation Arbitrations. He specialises in disputes between states and foreign investors, and has acted as arbitrator in some of the largest of such disputes. He has been a member of ICSID's panels of arbitrators and of conciliators since 2000. Judge Schwebel since 2007 was President of the ICSID ad hoc Committee in the case of Malaysian Historical Salvors v. Government of Malaysia and, in 2008-2009, a member of the Abyei
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 Boundary
Tribunal between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Revolutionary Movement, as well as the President of three other ICSID ad hoc Committees, including in the cases of Turkish Telecoms v. Government of Kazachstan and Helnan International Hotels v. Egypt. On 12 October 2010, Judge Schwebel was appointed by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-moon
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 as the President of Pakistan v. India Kishanganga/Neelum River Hydro-Electric Project (Kashmir
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)
Arbitration. The prominent 7-Member Kishenganga Arbitral Tribunal was established under the India/Pakistan Indus Waters Treaty
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  and it also includes: ICJ Judge Bruno Simma and Jan Paulsson (both appointed on 17 May 2010 by Pakistan
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), ICJ Judge Peter Tomka
Peter Tomka
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 and Lucius Caflisch (both appointed on 16 June 2010 by India
India
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), and two neutral Arbitrators appointed on 12 and 17 December 2010 - Prof Howard S Wheater and Sir Franklin Berman, who was appointed by Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
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. Judge Schwebel has, moreover, been chairman or party-appointed arbitrator in International Chamber of Commerce
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 (ICC), ICSID
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, AAA
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, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm
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 Chamber of Commerce (SCC), LCIA
London Court of International Arbitration
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, Permanent Court of Arbitration
Permanent Court of Arbitration
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 (PCA), Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (CAA), and UNCITRAL
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 ad hoc proceedings. Judge Schwebel has also acted as counsel and advocate for Colombia in its territorial
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 and maritime delimitation dispute with Nicaragua, involving Archipelago of San Andres and Providencia, for Belize
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 in its territorial, insular and maritime boundary
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 dispute with Guatemala, and for a number of other governments, corporations, and law firms in international proceedings. President of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund
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 in the years 1994-2010, he is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
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 in The Hague and since 2007 - Judge Schwebel has served as a member and since 2010 as President of the World Bank
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 Administrative Tribunal. He was designated by The American Lawyer
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in 2005 as one of the 'Top 10 Arbitrators' in the world, ranked number 2.

Judge Schwebel is the author of the pioneering International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems (Hersch Lauterpacht
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 Memorial Lectures 1987), celebrated Justice in International Law - Selected Writings of Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (1994), republished by Cambridge University Press
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 in 2008, as followed by Justice in International Law - Further Selected Writings od Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (Cambridge 2011), and he also authored some 175 articles on questions of international law and arbitration. He was awarded Yale Law School
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 Medal of Merit (1997), Manley O. Hudson Award (2000) and doctor honoris causa of Miami University Law School (2002). He is a member of the Institute of International Law, the Council on Foreign Relations
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, AAA
American Arbitration Association
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, LCIA
London Court of International Arbitration
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, International Bar Association
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, Japan CAA, and a former Honorary President of the American Society of International Law
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 (ASIL). The Judge Schwebel Fellows Suite - comprising three offices for Fellows engaged into international law research during a sabbatical or other leave from a regular position - was constructed and outfitted at ASIL's headquarters, Tillar House, in honour of Former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel's 80th birthday in 2009. On 17 March 2011 Judge Schwebel held his historic Lecture on The Development of International Adjudication 1951-2011: A 60 Year Perspective at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, named after Sir Hersch Lauterpacht at University of Cambridge
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.

The portrait photograph of Judge Schwebel was made by Max Koot Studio, The Hague and the portrait painted of that photograph was unveiled at ceremony held in Yale Law School
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 on 27 September 2007. During the ASIL Annual Meeting (International Law
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 as Law
) in Washington, D.C.
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 in March 2009, Judge Schwebel chaired the Philip Jessup
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 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee, which included ICJ President Hisashi Owada
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 (2009–2012) and many other experts and authorities in international law. The Former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel Prize for "Best Jessup Oralist" was won during the 2009 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition by a member of the team from University of the Andes, Colombia
University of the Andes, Colombia
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, the team which also won the Jessup Cup for that year.

Selected Books, Articles, Speeches, Lectures and Conference Presentations


Selected State-Company BIT and Commercial Awards


Selected ICJ-PCA Inter-State Boundary and Other Judgments and Awards


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