page_title: Shabtai Rosenne
section_title: Diplomatic career
hierarchical_section_title: Shabtai Rosenne / Diplomatic career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, which is the seat of the International Court of Justice. Nederlands: Het Vredespaleis in Den Haag, zetel van het Internationaal Gerechtshof. Deutsch: Der Friedenspalast in Den Haag, Dienstgebäude des Internationalen Gerichtshofs. Français&#160;: Le Palais de la Paix, siège de la Cour internationale de Justice à La Haye (Pays-Bas). Español: El Palacio de la Paz, sede de la Cour internationale de Justice en La Haya (Países Bajos).
context_page_description: Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jurisprudence, the 2004 Hague Prize for International Law and the 2007 Distinguished Onassis Scholar Award. He was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law, state responsibility, self-defence, UNCLOS and other issues of international law.
  Rosenne authored some 200 articles and essays, as well as The Law and Practice of the International Court in 1997 and 2006, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982: a Commentary in 2002, Provisional Measures in International Law: the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 2005, and Essays on International Law and Practice in 2007.In June 2010, he was appointed to the Israeli special independent public Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid.
context_section_description: With the approach of the end of the British Mandate in Palestine, Rosenne was appointed to the Legal Secretariat of the Situation Committee, which helped create the administrative apparatus of the new State of Israel. After the declaration of the State, he joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry. From 1948 to 1967, Rosenne served as a Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry.  Among other things, he was as a member of the Israeli delegation to the 1949 Armistice Agreements.  He was also a member of the UN-established International Law Commission from 1962 to 1971, and has been a member of the Institut de Droit International since 1963.
  In 1960, he was appointed to the rank of Ambassador.  He served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations in New York from 1967 to 1971, and Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva from 1971 to 1974.  In 1972, a letter bomb was sent to him, which was defused.  He was appointed Ambassador-at-Large in 1974.
  He was Vice Chairman of Delegation to the First and Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, and from 1973 to 1982 he was Chairman of the Delegation to the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and a member of the Drafting Committee of the UNCLOS.
  In 1993, he acted as Serbia's chief legal advisor.  From 1994 to 1996 he was a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.  He was also a member of the Court's Steering Committee.
caption: Seat of the Permanent Court of Arbitration: The Peace Palace ("Vredespaleis"), The Hague
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