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Signing Ceremony Held Between the French Embassy in the Netherlands and the Academy

At a ceremony held on 18 October 2024 at the Peace Palace, H.E. François Alabrune, Ambassador of France to the Netherlands, presented the Academy with a very substantial voluntary contribution of 75,000 euros, enabling the Academy to finance the holding of the Moot Court competition before the International Criminal Court, in partnership with the Court, as well as legal French courses, in partnership with the Alliance Française.

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Academy Side Event at UN Headquarters on 23 October 2024

The Hague Academy of International Law, the Permanent Missions of the Philippines and the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, with the kind sponsorship of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Portugal, the Principality of Andorra, the Principality of Monaco, the Republic of Poland, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, the Togolese Republic, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Uruguay and Vietnam will hold its annual “Side Event” at the UN Headquarters in New York.

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Election of New Members of the Curatorium

On 18 January 2024, the Curatorium of the Academy elected three new members: Patrícia Galvão Teles, Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and Member of the International Law Commission; Nilüfer Oral, Director of the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and Member of the International Law Commission; and Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Professor at the University of Cairo and Dean of the Africa Arbitration Academy. The Secretariat of the Academy congratulates them.These new members succeed Professors Beat Hess, Djamchid Momtaz and Mohamed Bennouna respectively.

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Elections of ICJ Judges

The Academy warmly congratulates H.E. Judge Hilary Charlesworth (member of the Curatorium), H.E. Mr Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu (invited to teach at the Academy in the near future), Professor Sarah Hull Cleveland, H.E. Mr Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco (who taught at the Academy in 2023) and Professor Dire Tladi (who taught at the Academy in 2021) on their re-election or election by the General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council to serve as Judges of the International Court of Justice for a term of nine years.

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Academy Side Event at UN Headquarters on 25 October 2023

On 25 October, The Hague Academy of International Law, with the kind sponsorship of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of the Philippines, Andorra, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Panama, Peru, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Togo, Ukraine, the United States of America and Vietnam will once again hold a “Side Event” at the UN Headquarters. The topic of this year’s Side Event is “Peaceful Dispute Settlement: The Indispensable Courts and Courses of the Peace Palace”.

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