Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (born 14 December 1941) is a Mexican

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. He was

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during the 1980s under President

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and is a former

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of the International Court of Justice.

Biography

He was born in Mexico City, where he studied law at the National Autonomous University (UNAM, 1964). He then pursued post-graduate studies, specialising in international law at

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in the United Kingdom (1966). He is a professor of international law and international organisations at

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and also teaches at the Matías Romero Institute. His other academic activities have seen him work at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the UNAM. From March 16 to November 30, 1982, he served as Ambassador to the United States of America. From 1989 to 1993, he served as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Between those two diplomatic postings, from December 1982 to 1988, he served as

under President

. During his time in the

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, he was instrumental in establishing the Contadora Group, which worked to bring peace to Central America, and in the creation of the Grupo de Ocho, since expanded to become the

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. In 1984, he was awarded the

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for his international co-operation efforts. The following year, UNESCO awarded him its Simón Bolívar Prize. In 1996, he was elected to serve on the United Nations International Law Commission; he was re-elected to the same position in 2001. On November 7, 2005, he was elected to a nine-year period as one of the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In 2012, Sepúlveda-Amor was elected by the judges of the ICJ to serve as its vice-president, for a three-year term beginning February 6, 2012. In 2017, Sepúlveda-Amor was named chairman of the board of the Altán Redes, a Mexican communication consortium. In 2018, Sepúlveda-Amor was made Ambassador Emeritus of Mexico in recognition for his contribution both as a jurist and as a diplomat to the betterment of the international reputation of Mexico.

Lectures

''The International Court of Justice and the Use of Force by States''
in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Sepulveda-Amor.html ''La Corte Internacional de Justicia y el uso de la fuerza por los Estados''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

in the ttp://legal.un.org/avl/lectureseries.html Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

References

External links

ICJ Biography of H.E. Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sepulveda Amor, Bernardo International Court of Justice judges International Law Commission officials Ambassadors of Mexico to the United States Mexican Secretaries of Foreign Affairs Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Mexican judges Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 1941 births People from Mexico City Living people Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Mexican judges of United Nations courts and tribunals