Background
Lauterpacht, Elihu was born on July 13, 1928 in London. Son of Hersch and Rachel (Steinberg) Lauterpacht.
Lauterpacht, Elihu was born on July 13, 1928 in London. Son of Hersch and Rachel (Steinberg) Lauterpacht.
For a year Lauterpacht attended the private Horace Mann School in the Bronx before joining the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
As the Second World War broke out, Professor Hersch Lauterpacht was invited by the Carnegie Endowment to take a visiting professorship in the United States, so the Lauterpracht family evacuated to America After graduating in June 1944 Lauterpacht returned to the United Kingdom. After returning to England Lauterpacht entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1945, initially reading history, before switching to the law tripos. In 1950 he was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn.
In 1953 he became a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1970 he became a QC. From 1975 to 1977 Lauterpacht served as legal advisor to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs. Lauterpacht has also been an active academic at Cambridge University, where he was successively Lecturer, Reader and Honorary Professor.
In 1983 the Research Centre for International Law was founded by Lauterpacht at Cambridge, and he was its director until 1995. In 1996 the Centre was renamed the Lauterpacht Centre in honour of Sir Elihu and his father, Sir Hersch. After retirement, he continued to teach and giving courses at the London School of Economics (in 1995) and the Hague Academy of International Law (1996).
During his career Lauterpacht has appeared before the in various cases — including: Timor Leste v. Australia (The Case Concerning Questions relating to the Seizure and Detention of Certain Documents and Data), Liechtenstein v. Guatemala (the Nottebohm case), the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, Belgium v.
Spain (Barcelona Traction case), Australia v. France (the Nuclear Tests case), Pakistan v. India (Atlantique Incident case), El Salvador v.
Honduras, Botswana v. Namibia (Kasikili case), Mexico v. United States (the Avena case), Qatar v.
Bahrain case, Malaysia v. Indonesia (a territorial dispute over Sipadan and Ligitan islands), Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro (Application of the Genocide Convention - he was a judge ad hoc for Bosnia).
1989, appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year.
(This elaboration of the Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectu...)
Member Institute International Law, American Society International Law (honorary), Garrick Club. M C.
Married Judith Maria Hettinger, July 29, 1955 (deceased June 1970). Children: Deborah, Gabriel, Michael Hersch. Married Catherine Josephine Daly, July 21, 1973.
1 child, Conan Daniel.