20 Facts About Shabtai Rosenne

Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat.

Shabtai Rosenne was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law, state responsibility, self-defence, UNCLOS and other issues of international law.

Shabtai Rosenne authored some 200 articles and essays, as well as The Law and Practice of the International Court in 1997 and 2006, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982: a Commentary in 2002, Provisional Measures in International Law: the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2005, and Essays on International Law and Practice in 2007.

Shabtai Rosenne served from 1940 to 1946 in the Royal Air Force.

Shabtai Rosenne then worked in the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, initially in London and subsequently in Jerusalem, for two years.

Shabtai Rosenne was married with Esther Schultz, they had two sons, Jonathan and Daniel.

Shabtai Rosenne died of a heart attack in Jerusalem on 21 September 2010 at the age of 92.

From 1948 to 1967, Shabtai Rosenne served as a Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry.

Shabtai Rosenne was a member of the UN-established International Law Commission from 1962 to 1971, and has been a member of the Institut de Droit International since 1963.

Shabtai Rosenne served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations in New York from 1967 to 1971, and Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 1971 to 1974.

Shabtai Rosenne was Vice Chairman of Delegation to the First and Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, and from 1973 to 1982 he was Chairman of the Delegation to the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and a member of the Drafting Committee of the UNCLOS.

Shabtai Rosenne was a member of the Court's Steering Committee.

Shabtai Rosenne returned to Britain and lectured in international law and naval law at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, from 1946 to 1947.

Shabtai Rosenne taught at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1954 and 2001.

Shabtai Rosenne became a member of the Institute of International Law in 1963.

Shabtai Rosenne taught at the Rhodes Oceans Academy in Greece, as the Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science in the University of Cambridge, the Bella van Zuylen Professor in the University of Utrecht, and visiting professor in international law at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Virginia.

In 2001, after Shabtai Rosenne was invited to teach his General Course on The Perplexities of Modern International Law, he became a member of the Hague Academy of International Law.

Shabtai Rosenne has served as a consultant to various governments, including to the United States and Yugoslavia before the International Court of Justice, and to Japan and Suriname in their Arbitrations in the ICSID and PCA respectively.

Shabtai Rosenne wrote United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982: a Commentary in 2002, Provisional Measures in International Law: the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2005, and Essays on International Law and Practice in 2007.

On 14 June 2010, Shabtai Rosenne was appointed to the Israeli special independent public Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid.