Hans Corell

Hans Corell

Hans Corell (born July 7, 1939) is a Swedish lawyer and diplomat. Between March 1994 and March 2004 he was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. In this capacity, he was head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat.

Before joining the United Nations in 1994, Corell was an Ambassador and Under-Secretary for Legal and Consular Affairs in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Hans Corell graduated with a Bachelor of Laws at Uppsala University. He currently sits on the advisory board of The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University and on the board of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. Since 2006 he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University.

" See also: United Nations Secretary-General, Hans Blix"

External links

* [http://www.havc.se] - Hans Corell's Homepage
* [http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/corell_bio.html Hans Corell] - Biography at United Nations
* [http://untreaty.un.org/ola/legal_counsel3.aspx] - Information from the Legal Counsel
* [http://www.rwi.lu.se/index.shtml] - Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/about/board.html] - Brandeis institute for international judges
* [http://untreaty.un.org/ola/legal_counsel3.aspx] - Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Prayer for Peace


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