Meeting of States parties

Thirty-seventh meeting

New York, 28 August 2018

Item 5 of the provisional agenda

Election, in accordance with articles 28 – 34 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of one member of the Human Rights Committee to fill a vacancy for a term expiring on 31 December 2020

Election of one member of the Human Rights Committee to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Anja Seibert Fohr (Germany), whose term was to expire on 31 December 2020

Note by the Secretary-General

1.In conformity with article 34 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the thirty-seventh meeting of States parties to the Covenant will be convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters on 28 August 2018, for the purpose of electing one member of the Human Rights Committee from a list of persons nominated by States parties (annex I) to replace the member who has resigned from the Committee.

2.In a letter dated 28 February 2018, Anja Seibert-Fohr, who was re-elected at the thirty-fifth meeting of States parties to the Covenant held on 23 June 2016, for a term that was to expire on 31 December 2020, submitted her resignation from the Committee effective from 1 March 2018. In a letter dated 7 March 2018, the Chair of the Committee informed the Secretary-General accordingly.

3.Pursuant to articles 33 (2) and 34 (1) of the Covenant, the Secretary-General declared the seat of Ms. Seibert-Fohr vacant from the date on which the resignation took effect.

4.The Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 2 May 2018, invited the States parties to the Covenant to submit nominations by 2 July 2018 for the purpose of filling the vacancy for a term expiring on 31 December 2020. The curriculum vitae received by 2 July 2018 is included in the present document (see annex). Nominations received after that date will be issued in addenda to the present document.

5.Listed below is the name of the candidate whose nomination was received by 2 July 2018, and the State party that nominated him.

Candidate	Nominated by
Mr. Andreas Zimmermann	Germany

Annex

Curriculum vitae *

Andreas Zimmermann (Germany)

Date and place of birth : 18/06/1961, Tuebingen (Germany)

Working languages : English/ French

Current position/function:

Chair of International and European Union Law, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Director, Potsdam Centre of Human Rights, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Member Permanent Court of Arbitration

Main professional activities:

Teaching in international law, in particular human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law at Kiel Univ. (2000–2008) and Potsdam Univ. (since 2008).

Visiting professor inter alia at Michigan Law School, Copenhagen Univ, Tartu Univ., Johannesburg Univ., Hebrew University, Bir Zeit Univ, Inst. Hautes Etudes Internat. (Paris II).

Course at the Hague Academy Int. Law (forthcoming).

United Nations training courses in international law for diplomats The Hague and Addis Ababa.

Member ILA Committee Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals.

Member advisory boards German MFA on international law and on United Nations issues.

Head international law education for German diplomats (since 2009).

Educational background:

First State Exam (equivalent to JD), University of Tuebingen, 1986, 1st in class of 228

LL.M. (Harvard Law School) (1989)

Second State Exam (German bar exam), Baden-Wuerttemberg (1992), 7th in class of 574

Dr. jur, University of Heidelberg (1994) summa cum laude

Habilitation, University of Heidelberg (1999)

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:

Legal counsel in various cases before the ICJ, the European Court of Justice, the German Constitutional Court and arbitral tribunals

Judge ad hoc European Court of Human Rights

Amicus curiae in proceedings at the ICTY

Legal adviser of the German delegation at the Rome diplomatic conference recreation of the ICC

Member of the commission on international humanitarian law of the German Red Cross

Member of the working group “The principle of complementarity in practice” with the OTP of the ICC

List of most recent publications in the field:

Human Rights Treaty Bodies and the Jurisdiction of the ICJ, LPICT 2013, p. 5.

The Sec. Council and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide, Pol Yb. Int. Law 2012, p. 307

60 Jahre EMRK — Versuch einer Bilanz [The ECHR at 60 — a stocktaking] (2014)

Statute of the International Court of Justice A Commentary (2nd ed 2012)

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol — A Commentary (2011)