LEO BOUCHEZ

Background

BOUCHEZ, LEO was born in 1932 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Education

Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Master of Law, 1957. Doctor of Laws cum laude, 1963). Cambridge University, United Kingdom (Diploma in International Law, 1961).

Research Certificate, The Hague Academy of International Law (1961).

Recipient, Kluwer Prize 1966 for "The Legal Regime of Bays in International Law”, 1964. Assistant and Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Utrecht, 1958-1969.

Professor in International Law at the University of Utrecht and Legal Counsel to several companies. Rapporteur of the Deep Sea Mining Committee of the International Law Association, 1967 1972.

Rapporteur of the Symposium on the International Regime of the Sea Bed, organized by l’lnstituto di Affari Internazionali, Rome.

Rapporteur of the Legal Committee of the Technical Conference of the F.A.O. on Maritime Pollution and the Living Resources of the Sea, Rome, 1970. Counsel to the Conference Pacem in Maribus, Malta, 1970. Member of a group of Experts of the Organization of European Cooperation and Development dealing with the legal aspects of transfrontier pollution, 1975.

Member of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Justice on the reform of the Netherlands Penal Code concerning public morality lesgislation, 1970-1973.

Chairman, Committee established by a group of industries dealing with the legal aspects of the construction of Artificial Islands in the North Sea, 19731974. Legal Counsel of Alaska and Louisiana with respect to their claims to adjacent waters, 1969-1970.

President, Committee on Environmental Law of the Netherlands Association of International Law, 1975-1978. Member of several consultative committees of the Netherlands Government Dealing with legal questions on the Law of the Sea, 1975-1979.

President, Committee dealing with the Reform of Legal Education in the Law Faculty of the University of Utrecht, 1978-1979.

Chairman, Executive Committee of Houthoff and partners, 1985-1988. Professor in International Business Law, Utrecht University, 1985-1988. Member, Advisory Board on matters of International Law of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Member, Netherlands Council on Maritime Scientific Research.

Member, Board of the Netherlands Association of International Law. Member, Board of Editors, The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.

Member, Advisory Board of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce (New York). Corresponding Member of the Asociacion Argentina del Derecho Internacional.

Spoken languages: Dutch, English, French and German.

Career

Working as a partner of HOUTHOFF NUTTER McCLENNEN. Admitted to the bar, 1979, Amsterdam.

Achievements

• LEO BOUCHEZ has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.