- Georges Scelle
Georges Scelle (
19 March 1878 Avranches (Manche) -8 January 1961 ) was an internationaljurist and member of theUnited 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 ofAntoine Pillet .Professor at the Law Faculty of
Dijon for 20 years (Public International Law and Industrial Relations Law). Published the first volume of thePrécis de droit des gens shortly before joining theUniversity of Paris (1933) where he taughtPublic 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 asGeorges Berlia ,Lazare Kopelmanas ,Guy de Lacharrière ,Georges Burdeau ,Charles Rousseau andRené-Jean Dupuy had Georges Scelle as teacher.Other positions
* 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 theInternational Labour Organisation .
* Member associé of theInstitut de Droit International from 1929.
* Member of thePermanent 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 theInternational Law Commission from its inception (elected on 3 November 1948).
* The first "Secrétaire de la présidence" and then Secretary General of the TheHague Academy of International Law (1935 to 1958)External links
* [http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol1/No1/art13.html Biographical note with bibliography]
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