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Latest NewsPermanent Representative of the Mission of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to the U.N. in GenevaOn May 31, 2010, the Geneva School of Diplomacy received a visit from Her Excellency, Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Permanent Representative of the Mission of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to the U.N. in Geneva. International Conference in Bern, SwitzerlandDr. Alfred de Zayas, GSD Professor of International Law and former senior UN official, was a speaker at a press conference held by the Commission for Commemorating the Armenian Genocide. |
Prof. Alfred de Zayas
Alfred de Zayas (1947) is an American lawyer and historian. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Modern history and international relations from University of Göttingen and an A.B. in philosophy and history from Fordham University. A member of the New York and Florida Bars, he practised law in the law firm Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett in New York for three years, and then moved to Europe with a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship. He was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and member of the editorial committee of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law. In January 1981 he became a staff member of the then UN Division of Human Rights in Geneva, and worked for 22 years as a lawyer for the United Nations, taking early retirement in 2003 in order to teach and write. He was Secretary of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Senior Human Rights Officer, Deputy Chief of the Communications Branch and Chief of the Petitions Section. He has been Visiting Professor of International Law at DePaul University in Chicago, the Human Rights Centre at Galway, Ireland, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the Universität Trier in Germany, the Schiller International University, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Lund, the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, the Académie internationale de droit constitutionnel in Tunis, the Santa Clara Law School at Geneva , the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. He is the author of numerous articles and five books, including “Nemesis at Potsdam” (Routledge) and “A Terrible Revenge” (Palgrave/Macmillan), co-author and co-editor of several books, and author of scholarly articles on international law and history. He was President of the UN Society of Writers 1990-2005 and remains Editor-in-Chief of the UN literary journal “Ex Tempore”. For many years Secretary-General of PEN International, Centre Suisse Romande, he was elected President in 2006. He is married and permanently resides in Geneva. Courses taught: Public International Law, World History Published Printed Works: The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau 1939 1945: (first edition 1989, University of Nebraska Press; fourth revised edition, Picton Press, 2000). Original German version: Die Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle (1st edition 1979, 7th revised and enlarged edition, 2001, Universitas/Langen Müller, Munich), 510 pages. Excerpts reprinted in Marco Sassoli and Antoine Bouvier, How does law Protect in War? Cases and Materials on International Humanitarian law in Contemporary Practice, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1999. The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace, Macmillan, London, 1993. Revised and enlarged paperback version, published under the title: A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East-European Germans 1944-1950 (4th revised edition Palgrave/Macmillan 2006). Original German version: Anmerkungen zur Vertreibung (4th revised edition, 1995), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 240 pp., 5th revised edition 2005, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz. Heimatrecht ist Menschenrecht (Universitas/Langen Müller, Munich, 2001) 296 pp. Collaboration with Professor Cherif Bassiouni in the compendium Co-author with Judge Jakob Th. Möller of the Handbook: United Nations Human Rights Committee Case-Law 1977-2008, N.P. Engel Verlag, Kehl/Strasbourg, 2009. Review on Human Rights Quartely Journal – February 2010, Volume 32, number 1. Pag 237-240 Co-author and co-editor with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertrand Ramcharan of International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms, Brill, Amsterdam 2009. Author of 18 entries in Rudolf Bernhardt (ed.) Encyclopedia of Public International Law, North Holland Publishers, Amsterdam 1990-2003. Author of 4 entries in Dinah Sehlton (ed.), Encyclopedia of Genocide, Macmillan Reference, 2005 The human right to peace is increasingly recognized by the OHCHR and UNESCO as an enabling right, indispensable to the enjoyment of all other human rights. Prof. Alfred de Zayas was appointed as expert to the Workshop held at the United Nations 15-16 December 2009. The report of the OHCHR has just been issued, containing the arguments by Prof. Zayas on the individual and collective aspects of this right. (Report of the Office of the High Commissioner on the outcome of the experts workshops on the right of peoples to peace) Published Digital Works:
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