He is an honorary Professor of the University of Cambridge where he taught for thirty five years, and is the founder and first Director of the Research Centre for International Law.

Sir Elihu is a Member of the Institut de Droit International and an Honorary member of the American Society of International Law.

Judge Stephen Schwebel, a citizen of the United States of America, until recently the President of the International Court of Justice, has had great experience as a practitioner and judge in international law. He served in the U.S. Department of State as Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs (1961-1966), Counsellor on International Law (1973) and Deputy Legal Adviser (1974-1981).

He was appointed arbitrator or president in 29 arbitral tribunals (1982-2001). He was a judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague from 1981 to 2000. From 1994 to 1997 he was Vice-President, and from 1997 to 2000 President, of the ICJ.

He is the author of several books and articles on international law, international arbitration and international relations. He is Honorary President of the American Society of International Law (1996-2001) and was awarded the Manley O. Hudson medal of that Society in 2000.

Professor Shabtai Rosenne, an Israeli citizen, has a wide-ranging experience as agent and representative in numerous cases before the International Court of Justice and in international arbitrations.

He is Professor and Visiting Professor in the Universities of Bar-Ian, Cambridge, Utrecht and Amsterdam, and Faculty Adjunct at the University of Virginia Law School. He is the author of the leading treatise on the International Court of Justice as well as of other books and articles on international arbitration, the law of treaties and the law of the sea. He is the General Editor of the Commentary on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy of the University of Virginia.

He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (1962-1971) and the UN Commission on Human Rights (1968-1970). He is a member of the Institute of International Law and was awarded the Manley O. Hopkins medal of the American Society of International Law in 1999.

Professor Orrego Vicuña, a Chilean national, has vast experience as an arbitrator and has participated widely in dispute settlement processes in the Americas, including those of Honduras/El Salvador and Chile/Argentina. He has been the senior legal advisor of the Organization of American States and a member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee. He is a member of the panel for the settlement of disputes under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and Judge Ad-Hoc at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

He is the author of several books on international law, particularly on the law of the sea, and of dozens of articles in major international law journals. He is Professor of International Law and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile, and visiting professor at several institutions world-wide, including the Hague Academy of International Law, Stanford University and the University of Paris, and has lectured at Universities from Trinidad to Tokyo, from Sao Paulo to Sydney.

He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the American Society of International Law.

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