Stephen M. Schwebel

Stephen M. Schwebel is an American jurist and expert on international law. He is best known for delivering dissenting opinions in the case of "Nicaragua v. United States" and in the pair of Libya v. United Kingdomand Libya v. United States Lockerbie (Preliminary Objections) cases, which were discontinued in 2003 [See ICJ Lockerbie Cases : [http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=luk&case=88&k=9c Libya v. UK] and [http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=lus&case=89&k=82 Libya v. USA] and [http://www.asil.org/resources/ajil.html Lockerbie Case Report 92 AJIL pp.503-508 1998] . See also - formally distinct from the ICJ - legal proceedings before the Scottish Criminal Court in the Netherlands, including: Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Trial and Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/aug/108251.htm USA/Libya Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement of 14 August 2008] and [http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/14/africa/libya.php IHT] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7561271.stm BBC] and [http://www.asil.org/pdfs/ilib080814_2.pdf U.S. President Bush Signs Libya Claims Resolution Act of 4 August 2008] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7542568.stm BBC] and [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4462187.ece Times] and [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/lockerbie Guardian] ] .

Judge Schwebel was born in New York City. He received his B.A. "magna cum laude" with highest honours in government from Harvard University in 1950. He then studied at Cambridge University (1951) and the Yale Law School, 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 Professor of International Law and Organization at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, 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 International Law Commission from 1977 to 1980. Judge Schwebel was first elected to the International Court of Justice in January 1981. He was subsequentely re-elected twice, and served as the President of the Court in the triennium 1997–2000, which marked the busiest docket 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 of Essex Court Chambers in London. He has been appointed in 50 international commercial arbitrations and in four intergovernmental arbitrations. He served as president of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Arbitration (Australia and NZ v Japan) and the maritime boundary arbitration between Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. He specialises in disputes between states and foreign investors, and has acted as arbitrator in some of the largest of such disputes. He was a member of ICSID's panels of arbitrators and of conciliators between 2000 and 2006. Since 2007 Judge Schwebel is the President of ICSID MHS v. Malaysia Sunken Treasure (Annulment of the 2007 Award) Committee which also comprises ICJ Judges Peter Tomka and Mohamed Shahabuddeen and since 2008 - Judge Schwebel serves as a Member of the North/South Sudan Abyei Boundary Tribunal. He has been chairman or party-appointed arbitrator in ICC, ICSID, AAA, Stockholm Institute, LCIA, PCA, Japan CAA, and UNCITRAL ad hoc proceedings. Judge Schwebel has also acted as counsel and advocate for Colombia in its territorial and maritime dispute with Nicaragua, involving Archipelago of San Andres and Providencia and for a number of other governments, corporations, and law firms in international proceedings. President of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Monetary Fund since 1994, he is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He was designated by "The American Lawyer" in 2005 as one of the 'Top 10 Arbitrators' in the world, ranked number 2 and he is a member of Investment Treaty Forum (ITF) of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).

Judge Schwebel is the author of "International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems" (1987), "Justice in International Law" (1994), and 175 articles on international law and arbitration. He was awarded Yale Law School Medal of Merit (1997) and Manley O. Hudson Award (2000). He is doctor honoris causa, Bhopal University, India (1981), Hofstra University, New York (1996) and Miami University Law School (2002). He is a member of the New York and Washington, DC, Bars and the Institute of International Law.

The portrait photograph of H.E. Judge Schwebel was made by Max Koot Studio, The Hague [ [http://www.maxkootstudio.nl/maxkoot.htm Max Koot Studio bv Fotografie - Den Haag ] ] and the portrait painted of that photograph was unveiled at ceremony held in his alma mater Yale Law School on 27 September 2007, when also portrait of Judge Howard Holtzmann was unveiled.

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* [http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/igeneralinformation/icvjudge/Schwebel.html Stephen M. Schwebel's ICJ Biography]
* [http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=3 ICJ Presidents]
* [http://www.asil.org/awardarchives.cfm#HudsonAwards Manley O. Hudson Awards]
* [http://www.cceia.org/people/data/stephen_m__schwebel.html Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs]
* [http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/people/honorary_fellows.php Honorary Fellows of Lauterpacht Centre] and Hersch Lauterpacht and [http://www.crestwall.com Who's Who in Public International Law 2007]
* [http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521462843 Justice in International Law]
* [http://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/FrontServlet ICSID MHS v. Malaysia Sunken Treasure (Annulment of the 2007 Award) Committee, H.E. President Stephen M. Schwebel, Judges Peter Tomka and Mohamed Shahabuddeen, 2007--] and [http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/4150/schwebel-chair-%20malaysian-annulment-hearing GAR]
* [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/content/TRIEN5September2008.pdf H.E. President Stephen M. Schwebel's ICJ Triennium 1997-2000 and Beyond] and [http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos NILOS Online Papers] and [http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/home.php?cat=20 Paperback 2006] and [http://product.half.ebay.com/_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ59061072 Sale] .
* [http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/functional-studies/international-law-orgs/index.htm SAIS John Hopkins University]
* [http://www.law.yale.edu/alumni/reunion2004.asp Yale Law School Reunion 2004: Judging International Law with] [http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=3 H.E. ICJ Judges Rosalyn Higgins and Stephen Schwebel]
* [http://www.asil.org/careeressays.cfm#Schwebel Careers in International Law by H.E. Former ICJ President Schwebel] and [http://www.asil.org/careerguideselect.cfm ASIL Career Guide]
* [http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/159/0159713.html International Dispute Settlement Program 7 with ICJ Judges Rosalyn Higgins] and [http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/defeisel/intlawtv/intlaworder.htm Stephen Schwebel] and [http://www.biicl.org/news/view/-/id/82/ Grotius Lecture] of H.E. President Rosalyn Higgins
* [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521750714 H.E. Former ICJ President Schwebel's Foreword to US Practice in International Law 2005] and [http://assets.cambridge.org/052175/0717/toc/0521750717_toc.pdf Contents] and [http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521852531 His Essay in Honour of Judge Florentino Feliciano 2005]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1255569561.html 2006 ASIL: Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Law under H.E. Former ICJ President Schwebel's Chair] and [http://www.highbeam.com/American+Society+of+International+Law~R~+Proceedings+of+the+Annual+Meeting/publications.aspx Programme] and [http://www.asil.org/proceedings.cfm ASIL Proceedings]
* [http://www.asil.org/pdfs/sohnprogram1.pdf Louis B. Sohn Symposium] and [http://www.highbeam.com/The+George+Washington+International+Law+Review/publications.aspx?date=200705 37 GWILR 2007 No. 3]
* [http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/10/international-court-of-justice-road.html The ICJ: The Road Ahead of 3 October 2007] and [http://fora.tv/2007/10/03/International_Court_of_Justice_Road_Ahead Video with H.E. Former ICJ President Stephen Schwebel, David Colson, Ruth Wedgwood and John Crook]
* [http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=nicol&case=124&k=e2 ICJ Nicaragua v. Colombia (Preliminary Objections) and (Merits)] and [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25046&Cr=icj&Cr1 2007 Preliminary Objections Judgment] and [http://www.asil.org/ilib071228.cfm ASIL] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7142890.stm BBC] and [http://web.presidencia.gov.co/sp/2007/diciembre/13/22132007.html Colombia President] and [http://web.presidencia.gov.co/sp/2007/diciembre/13/02132007.html Colombia MFA] and [http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/LNG=EN/REL?PPN=076251780 Analysis 20 Hague YIL 75-119 2008]
* [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1152 Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago] and [http://www.un.org/law/riaa/ XXVII UNRIAA 147] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1056 Award Series] and [http://www.energy.gov.bb/(S(dy1mel3bjodpta55v4qtlj55))/textFiles/Barbados_International_Law_Environment.pdf Key Boundaries]
* [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/content-cln/barbados.pdf Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Analysis] and [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/content-cln/MAP1.pdf Award's Map] [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/content-cln/MAP2.pdf and Lathrop's Map] and [http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?ID=18253 22 IJMCL 7-60 2007] and [http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/content/Barbados5September2008.pdf 2008 Revision] and [http://www.law.uu.nl/nilos NILOS Articles] and [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1439064821.html 37 GWILR pp.573-620 2007 No.3] and [http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/LNG=EN/REL?PPN=076251780 Catalogue]
* [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 North/South Sudan Abyei] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&nws_id=211&pag_id=1261 News] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=212 11 July 2008]
* [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1150 Eritrea/Ethiopia] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=106 Arbitral Commission's Members] and [http://www.un.org/NewLinks/eebcarbitration/ UNEEBC] and [http://untreaty.un.org/cod/riaa/vol_XXV.htm 25 UNRIAA 83-195] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1056 Award Series]
* [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1160 Eritrea/Yemen] and [http://untreaty.un.org/cod/riaa/vol_XXII.htm XXII UNRIAA 211, 335] and [http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1056 Award Series] and [http://www.asil.org/ajil.cfm Analaysis 93 AJIL pp.668-682 1999 and 94 AJIL pp.721-736 2000]
* [http://www.mfa.gov.bz/library/documents/LegalOpinionon.pdf Guatemala's Territorial Claim] [http://www.belize-guatemala.gov.bz/library/legal_opinion/welcome.html to Belize] and [http://www.belize-guatemala.gov.bz/ Other Documents]
* [http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/editors/content.htm Editorial Board of the Transnational Dispute Management] and [http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/authors/welcome.html TDM Authors]
* [http://www.essexcourt.net/index.asp Essex Court Chambers] and [http://www.chambersandpartners.com/global/personprofile.aspx?aid=221342 London Chambers and Partners]
* [http://www.americanlawyer.com/focuseurope/scorecard0605.html American Lawyer 'Top 10 Arbitrators'] and [http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1181639136817 Top 50 Treaty Disputes 2007]
* [http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/pdfs/internationaljustice/biij/BIIJ2007.pdf Brandeis Institute for International Judges 2007 pages 21 and 34]
* [http://www.biicl.org/itf_members/ Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)]
* [http://www.cceia.org/calendar/data/0028.html Carnegie Panel on The International Judge and Global Justice] and [http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/0033.html Transcript of 19 March 2008] and [http://www.cceia.org/resources/video/data/000047 Video] with [http://www.cceia.org/people/data/stephen_m__schwebel.html H.E. Former ICJ President Schwebel] and [http://www.cceia.org/people/data/cesare_p_r_romano.html Cesare Romano] and [http://www.cceia.org/people/data/daniel_terris.html Daniel Terris]
* [http://www.exalead.com/wikipedia/results/Stephen%20Schwebel/en Wikipedia Citations of H.E. Judge Schwebel's Views]
* [http://www.whoswholegal.com/home.cfm Who's Who Legal CV - type: Schwebel under: Home Search]