Biography

Born February 7 1918, Tunis. Died in Nice on July 17 1997.

Professional career

  • 1948 : Doctor of Law, University of Paris
  • 1950 : Professor of Law at the Universities of Algiers, Aix-en-Provence, Nice and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  • Honorary Dean of the Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement at the University of Nice
  • 1966-1984 : Secretary General of The Hague Academy of International Law
  • 1967 : Member of the Institute of International Law
  • Member of the European Commission of Human Rights (Council of Europe 1974-1981)
  • 1979-1989 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of International Law
  • 1985 : Member of the Academy's Curatorium
  • 1990-1997 : Honorary Professor at the Collège de France

Learned societies and academies

  • Member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France
  • Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco
  • Corresponding member of the Academy of Athens
  • Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain
  • Corresponding member of the Académie d'Aix-en-Provence
  • Honorary President of the French Society for International Law
  • Chairman of the Board of the Centre International de Formation Européenne
  • President of the Académie de la Paix et de la Sécurité Internationale
  • President of the Belgian-Dutch Arbitral Tribunal for the Meuse and Scheldt Rivers

Awards and distinctions

  • Commander of the Légion d'Honneur
  • Commander of the National Order of Merit
  • Commandeur des Palmes Académiques
  • Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
  • Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
  • Commander of the Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco)
  • Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
  • Commander of the Order of Saint Charles (Monaco)
  • Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • Grand Cross of the Order of José Cecilio del Valle (Honduras)
  • Officer of the National Order of Mali
  • Bronze Star Medal (U.S. Army, 1944)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of the Johannes Gutemberg Universität, Mainz
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Montréal