Pierre-Marie Dupuy


Pierre-Marie Dupuy is a French jurist. Since 1981 he is a law professor at Panthéon-Assas University, of which he is on leave since 2000. From 2000 to 2008 he was Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. Since 2008 he works in the same capacity at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Life

Pierre-Marie Dupuy was born in 1946 as the son of the international law expert René-Jean Dupuy and graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1969. He also acquired a diploma in public law at the University of Paris in the same year, and a year later in political science. In 1974, he earned a doctorate and passed the Agrégation, the
competitive exam for professorship positions in France.
He then served as professor at the Universities of Strasbourg and Paris Val-de-Marne, and from 1981 at Panthéon-Assas University. Between 2000 and 2008 he held a professorship in international law at the European University Institute in Florence. Since 2008 he is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He has also appeared as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, at the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto, at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. In the years 1984 and 2000 he taught each the General Course at the Hague Academy of International Law. Besides his current academic appointment at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Mr. Dupuy is a member of the International Arbitration Institute, a Global Agenda Council on the International Legal System for the World Economic Forum, a visiting faculty member of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as well as a faculty member of the study program of the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement.
Pierre-Marie Dupuy is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal Revue Générale de Droit International Public, and was a founding member of the European Journal of International Law. He is now a member of the Honorary Editorial Board of the journal. His Droit international public is "one of the best known French international law textbooks" according to the European Society of International Law.
In addition to his native country he worked as a counsel or representative for various states including Equatorial Guinea, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Mali, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He acted inter alia as consultant to the OECD, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Bureau International des Expositions, UNESCO and Eutelsat. He is also listed as notable Global-wide Arbitrator in the field of Public International Law by Chambers and Partners. He chairs and is a panel member in a number of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and International Chamber of Commerce cases. One of his most notable positions in this field was his presidency over the tribunal in the Abyei Arbitration in front of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The case concerned the determination of the boundaries of the Abyei area between North and South Sudan between The Government of Sudan and The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army.
In March 2003, Dupuy was one of the "eminent academic lawyers" who wrote opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Italian and German.

International Litigation (excerpts)

International Court of Justice