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Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz

From: CICC         Updated: 2020-12-08

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Nationality: Algeria


Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz is an independent international arbitrator and the Rector of the African Institute of International Law (Arusha, Tanzania); he is an Associate of the Institut de Droit International. He served as Judge and Vice-President of the African Court on Human and Peoples'Rights (Arusha) from 2006 to 2016 and notably chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland), from 2016 to 2018. He was Secretary of the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) from 1995 to 2006 and Legal Officer at the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in New York from 1992 to 1994.


Judge Ouguergouz holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) and taught public international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva (1989- 1992). He was an Orville H. Schell Fellow at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) and Visiting Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School (Argentina), the Georgetown University Law Center (Washington D.C., USA), the University Panthéon- Assas (Paris II, France) and the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. In 2018, he was Senior Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and taught a special course at the summer course of The Hague Academy of International Law.


Judge Ouguergouz is member of the panel of arbitrators of CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Commission), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission), SCIAHK (South China International Arbitration Center, Hong Kong) and EDAC (Ankara Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre). He is also notably member of the Consultative Committee of Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre (Singapore), the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (The Hague) and the African Association of Arbitration (Kigali, Rwanda).


Judge Ouguergouz is the author of numerous publications, including several books, and was Deputy Director of the African Yearbook of International Law from 1992 to 2018.


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