Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg appoint members to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration
Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg in their capacity as States parties to the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (Stockholm Convention), have appointed conciliators, arbitrators and alternates for new mandates of six years to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
The mandates of these States parties’ members were approaching expiry. The States parties therefore renewed the mandates of their members or, alternatively, nominated new members. Further States parties are also due to renew the mandates of their members and more nominations are expected in the next three months.
The appointments were made in accordance with Article 3 and 4 of the Stockholm Convention, which was agreed in 1992 and has 34 States parties to date.
The conciliators and arbitrators of the Court will be requested to elect a new Bureau whose term of office will terminate in October 2019. The Bureau consists of a President, a Vice-President and three other members.
The election will take place in a written procedure in line with the provisions of Article 9 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court. The election procedure will start in Summer 2019 with an invitation to the members of the Court to nominate potential candidates for the President of the Court and the membership of the Bureau. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, in its capacity as Depositary State, will collect these nominations.
The following is a list of the conciliators, arbitrators and their alternates appointed by Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg:
Denmark
Conciliators
Jonas BERING LIISBERG
State Secretary for Foreign Policy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Peter TAKSØE-JENSEN
Ambassador
Arbitrator
Michael BRAAD
Ambassador
Director, Centre for Legal Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Alternate
Tobias ELLING REHFELD
Ambassador
Germany
Conciliators
Christian TOMUSCHAT
Professor emeritus
Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin
President of the Court (October 2013 to October 2019)
Doris KÖNIG
Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court
Arbitrator
Silja VÖNEKY
Professor of Public International Law, Comparative Law and Ethics of Law
(Co-)Director of the Institute for Public Law
University of Freiburg
Alternate
Christian WALTER
Chair of Public International Law and Public Law
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hungary
Conciliators
Vanda LAMM
Professor, Institute of Legal Studies
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Pal SONNEVEND
Vice-Dean, Professor
Faculty of Law, ELTE University of Budapest
Arbitrator
János BRUHÁCS
Professor Emeritus, Professor of International Law
University of Pécs
Alternate
László BLUTMAN
Professor, University of Szeged
Italy
Conciliators
Riccardo PISILLO MAZZESCHI
Professor of International Law, University of Siena
Attila TANZI
Professor of International Law, University of Bologna
Arbitrator
Maria Chiara MALAGUTI
Professor of International Law
Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Milano
Alternate
Ida CARACCIOLO
Professor of International Law, University of Napoli
Latvia
Conciliators
Egils LEVITS
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Latvia
Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Mārtiņš PAPARINSKIS
Reader in Public International Law, University College London
Arbitrator
Inga REINE
Judge at the General Court, Court of Justice of the European Communities
Luxembourg
Conciliator
Michel REIFFERS
Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Luxembourg
Counsellor at the Constitutional Court
Arbitrator
Lynn SPIELMANN
Counsellor, Administrative Court, Luxembourg
Alternate
Annick EVERLING
Deputy Director, Justices of the Peace