Fatsah Ouguergouz
Dr. Fatsah Ouguergouz (born 1958) is an Algerian judge born in France. He has served as a Justice of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights (Arusha, Tanzania) since 2006 and as Vice-President of this Court since September 2012. Elected initially in 2006 by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, he was re-elected in 2010 for a six-year mandate.
He holds a Ph.D in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland).
He was Secretary of the International Court of Justice[1] and held the position of Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva) (2010-2011).
He has held several positions within or outside the United Nations system, such as:
- Legal Officer, International Court of Justice (The Hague)
- Human Rights Officer, United Nations, Rwanda
- Associate Legal Officer, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, New York City
- Lecturer, University of Geneva Faculty of Law
- Father Robert F. Drinan S.J. Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Georgetown University (Washington D.C.)
- Visiting Professor, Panthéon-Assas University
- Orville Schell Fellow, Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut)
- Senior Lecturer, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations (New York), Regional Course in International Law Human Rights and Movement of persons (Addis Ababa)
- Senior Lecturer, American Bar Association, Rule of Law Initiative (Washington D.C), Training of 60 Algerian Lawyers and Judges, Algiers and Oran (Algeria)
- Senior Lecturer, North African Litigation Initiative, Arabe Institute of Human Rights (Tunis) & Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (Cairo)
- Lecturer, Stetson University College of Law (Gulfport, Florida, USA), Summer Institute in International and Comparative Law, The Hague
- Lecturer, 34th Session of the External Programme of The Hague Academy of International Law, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
- Lecturer, 29th, 30th and 40th Study Sessions of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France).- Lecturer, Study Session of the International Institute of Human Rights
- Secrétaire-rédacteur, Institute of International Law (from 1993 to 2003)
- Lecturer, Training Sessions of the Institut International d’Administration Publique and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Paris) (1996/1999/2002)
- Moderator, «Introduction to the United Nations System», Online Course, UNITAR (Geneva), Module 5: «The Principal Organs of the United Nations: Focus on the International Court of Justice»
- Member, International Advisory Committee, Brandeis Institute for International Judges, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- Board Member, Institute of African Studies and Center for the Study of Human Rights (Banjul, The Gambia)
Books
- L’Union africaine: cadre juridique et institutionnel – Manuel sur l’Organisation panafricaine, (Co-Director with Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf), Editions Pedone, Paris, 2013, 471 pages
- The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework - A Manual on the Pan-African Organization (Co-Director with Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2012, 576 pages
- The African Charter on Human and People's Rights: a comprehensive agenda for human dignity and sustainable democracy in Africa, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/London/New York, 2003, 1016 pages
- La Charte Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples: une approche juridique des droits de l'homme entre tradition et modernité, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1993, 479 pages
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