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Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz is member of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Development Bank (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), an independent international arbitrator and the Rector of the African Institute of International Law (Arusha, Tanzania); he is an Associate of the Institut de Droit International. Since September 2022, he chairs the High-Level Panel of International Legal Experts established by the Conference of States Parties to the 2005 International Convention against Doping in Sport (UNESCO, Paris).
He served as Judge and Vice-President of the African Court on Human and Peoples'Rights (Arusha) from 2006 to 2016 and notably chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland), from 2016 to 2018. He was Secretary of the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) from 1995 to 2006 and Legal Officer at the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in New York from 1992 to 1994.
Judge Ouguergouz holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) and taught public international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva (1989-1992). He was an Orville H. Schell Fellow at Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) and Visiting Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School (Argentina), the Georgetown University Law Center (Washington D.C., USA), the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II, France) and the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. In 2018, he was Senior Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and taught a special course at the summer course of The Hague Academy of International Law.
Judge Ouguergouz is the author of numerous publications including several books, notably The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework - A Manual on the Pan-African Organization (Co-Editor with Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2012, xvi-576 pages). From 1992 to 2018, he has also co-directed the African Yearbook of International Law together with Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf.