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Abdulqawi Yusuf

LAWYER

1948 - Today

Abdulqawi Yusuf

Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somali: Cabdulqaawi Axmed Yuusuf) is a Somali lawyer and judge serving on the International Court of Justice since 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdulqawi Yusuf has received more than 354,975 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abdulqawi Yusuf is the 65th most popular lawyer (down from 60th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Somalia (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Somali Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Abdulqawi Yusuf ranks 65 out of 136. Before him are Hersch Lauterpacht, Louis Brandeis, Roy Cohn, René David, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and James B. Donovan. After him are William Rehnquist, John Selden, Koen Lenaerts, Navi Pillay, Wendell Willkie, and H

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Born and raised in Somalia, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf wanted to become a doctor. Unfortunately, there were no medical schools at the time in Mogadishu, which led him to pursue a law degree instead. Fifty years later, on 6 February 2018, he was appointed President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), only the third African to have ever held this position. 

Prior to joining the ICJ as a judge in 2009, Yusuf held various positions in academic institutions, multilateral bodies and international organisations in Vienna, Geneva and New York. He taught law at the National University of Somalia (1974-1981) and at the University of Geneva (1981-1983) before working for various UN agencies for more than 20 years: he was successively Head of the legal service of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1987-1992) then its representative in New York (1992-1994). He was also Legal Adviser (1994-1998) then Deputy to the Director-General of African Affairs (1998 - 2001) of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Finally, he moved to UNESCO to be Legal Adv

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A. Legal Instruments

Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague, 14 May 1954, United Nations, Treaty Series,vol. 249, p. 240.

Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague, 14 May 1954, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, p. 358.

Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property; Paris, 14 November 1970, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 823, p. 232.

Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Paris, 16 November 1972, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1037, p. 152.

Second Protocol to The Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague, 26 March 1999, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2253, p. 172.

Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, Paris, 2 November 2001, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2562, p. 3.

Convention for the Safeguarding of the

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