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.