Enforceability of Arbitral Awards: Customary Law, State Responsibility, and the Role of the International Court of Justice - WAMR 2014 Vol. 8, No. 4

Author(s): 

Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor

Raymond Doak Bishop

Page Count: 

12 pages

Media Description: 

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Published: 

February, 2015

Jurisdictions: 

International

Practice Areas: 

Responsibility of Arbitrators,

Right to Determine Applicable Law,

International and Transnational Law,

Court Decisions,

Enforcement of Arbitral Awards,

Enforceability

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DOAK BISHOP: It is my great pleasure now to introduce to

you our luncheon speaker, Judge Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor.

Judge Sepúlveda is the Vice President of the International Court of

Justice. He is a major figure in international law particularly in

Latin America, but also in the world more generally. For those of

us in this area, many of us know him as the ad hoc judge

appointed by Mexico in the Aveeno v. United States cases, and then

he was elected by the UN and continued on those cases later.

Those were the death penalty cases involving consular rights,

which is a major case or series of cases decided by the ICJ in the

last several years.

 

 

Judge Sepúlveda studied law at the National Autonomous

University of Mexico and then studied international law at

Cambridge University. For several years he was a professor of

international law. He served in 1982 as the Ambassador to the

U.S. and then through the 1980s as the Secretary of Foreign

Affairs of Mexico. Then for four years, he served as the

Ambassador of Mexico to the Court of St. James in the U.K. He has

served for many years on the UN International Law Commission

and as President of the Latin American Society of International

Law. In an interesting change of careers in the 1990s up to 2005

he served as the General Counsel of Grupo ICA, which is Mexico’s

largest construction and engineering company. So, he has both an

international law perspective and a corporate perspective, which

I think makes for an interesting combination. Now, his biography

also says “in recent times he has devoted much of his professional

activity to international arbitration.” He has served and serves on
the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute