Georg Nolte was born on 3 October 1959 and is a German jurist and Judge of the International Court of Justice.
12 Facts About Georg Nolte
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Georg Nolte is professor of public international law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and has been a member of the UN's International Law Commission from 2007 to 2021, serving as its chairman in 2017.
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Georg Nolte studied law, international relations and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Geneva from 1977 to 1983.
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Georg Nolte is head of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Georg Nolte wrote in the foreword that the prospect of establishing European armed forces required a better understanding of the national military legal systems of the member states.
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Georg Nolte has been a member of the German Foreign Office's advisory council on public international law since 2006.
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Georg Nolte is member of the advisory board of the Goettingen Journal of International Law.
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Georg Nolte was elected as a member of the International Law Commission by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007.
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Georg Nolte was reelected in 2011, receiving the highest number of votes among all candidates.
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Georg Nolte was elected as a member of the Institut de Droit International in 2019.
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On 12 November 2020, Georg Nolte was elected Judge of the International Court of Justice, with 160 out of 193 votes cast in the United Nations General Assembly and 14 out of 15 votes cast in the Security Council.
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Georg Nolte started his nine-year term on 6 February 2021.