Christian Tomuschat

Christian Tomuschat is Professor em. of the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University, Berlin. Education at the universities of Heidelberg and Montpellier. From 1972 to 1995 he was professor for constitutional and international law at the University of Bonn. He lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1993 and 1999 (General Course). He was a member of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1977-1986) and of the International Law Commission (1985-1999, President in 1992). From 1997 to 1999, he co-ordinated the Commission for Historical Clarification in Guatemala. He served as judge on the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank (1995-1997) and on the Administrative Tribunal of the African Development Bank (1999-2008). He became a member of the Institut de droit international in 1997. From September 2013 to October 2019, he discharged the functions of the President of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE.

He is the author of numerous books and articles. Among his latest publication is “Human Rights Between Idealism and Realism” (3rd. ed. Oxford 2014). He is also one of the co- editors and authors of the Commentary on the Statute of the ICJ (2nd ed. Oxford 2012).

During his presidency of the Court, Professor Tomuschat co-authored two books on the topic of conciliation: “Conciliation in International Law – The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration” (Brill / Nijhoff, 2017), and “Flexibility in International Dispute Settlement – Conciliation Revisited” (Brill / Nijhoff, 2020).