CHAMBERS
Ad Litem Judge Árpád PRANDLER (Hungary)
Member of the Tribunal since 7 April 2006
Biographical Note

Born: 23 February 1930, Kaposvár, Hungary

Education:
1952

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of Law – Doctor Juris, Bachelor of Law

1957 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Faculty of History – Bachelor of History
1972 Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Candidate of Legal Sciences (international law, Ph.D)
1952 - present Budapest University, Faculty of Law - Professor of International Law
1992 - present Budapest University of Economics, Department of International Relations – Honorary Professor

Professional Experience:

Since 1962 Various positions at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1963-1968 Deputy Permanent Mission of Hungary to the UN
1963 - 1970 Member of the Hungarian delegation to UN General Assembly
1968– 1974 Secretary General, Hungarian Lawyers Association
1974– 1983 Director, International Law Department
1974 - 1982 Head of Hungarian delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea
1975 - 1982 Member of the Hungarian delegation to UN General Assembly
1976 - present Ambassador
1981-present Member of Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague
1983-1990 Director and Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs at the UN
1990 Secretary-General of the Fourth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1993-present Alternate Representative of Hungary to the Danube Commission
1994-2004 Member of the Hungarian delegation to UN General Assembly
1996-present Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
1992-1997 Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1997-2000 Deputy Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998 Member of Hungarian delegations to preparatory work of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
1999-2002 Head of Hungarian delegation to the Preparatory Commission for ICC
2001-2002 Director of the International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2002-2003 2003 Chairman of the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN General Assembly
2003-present Senior Adviser at Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2003-present Chairman of Preparatory Committee for revising the Belgrade Convention regarding regime of navigation of the Danube

Additional experience:
In addition, served as Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law since 1999 and, since 2000, as Chairman of the Hungarian branch of International Law Association.

Publications:
Author of several articles on, among other things, the Charter of the UN, peacekeeping, Law of the Sea, disarmament, human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, human rights law, and international organizations. Also published a University textbook and written a Monograph on the UN Security Council.

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