Former Vice-President, International Court of Justice, The Hague (1990-2002)
LLD. (University of London); D.Lit. (Honoris Causa) (University of London), LLD. (Honoris Causa) (University of Colombo); LLD. (Honoris Causa) (Monash University); LL.D. (Honoris Causa) (National Law School of India)
Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice in the course of his professional career of over six decades as lawyer, legal educator, domestic judge, international judge, author, lecturer, has touched on a wide variety of topics essential to international rule of law, cross-cultural understanding and peace education. He has written over 250 articles which has been published in various international journals and is the author of over 20 books and lectured extensively on these topics and related subjects in over 50 countries. His work contains a philosophy as well as a programme of action to achieve these purposes.The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) was founded by him in 2001, has a vast corpus of research and writing as an information base from which to develop it programmes.
Judge Weeramantry recently received the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2006, the Right Livelihood (Alternative Nobel) Award 2007 and the Life-Time Achievement Award 2008 by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. These were bestowed upon him in recognition of his unstinted commitment and concrete undertakings in support of the concept and culture of peace through his long and fruitful career. He continues to serve humankind by undertaking several appointments as Patron and Advisor to numerous international bodies all over the world, some of these include, his function as the President of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Patron of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and Advisor to the Asian Society of International Law. His pre-eminence in the field of international law has been recognized by such distinction as being selected as the Judge representing the Hague’s excellence in International Law when it celebrated its 750th anniversary in 1996 and by his being selected as the jurist to represent the Third World at the World Congress on Equality and Freedom held in 1976 to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
http://judgechristopherweeramantry.com/wp/?page_id=31
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001524/152404e.pdf
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/weeramantry.html
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2008/04/17_krieger_weeramantry_award.php
