The Human Person and International Justice (2008 Friedmann Memorial Award)
| Autor | Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade |
| Ocupação do Autor | Juiz da Corte Internacional de Justiça (Haia) |
| Páginas | 748-758 |
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The Human Person and International Justice (2008
Friedmann Memorial Award1
– I –
To1be the recipient of the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award today, 08 April
2008, here at Columbia University in New York, is a source of great satisfaction and
an honour to me. And this, for one compelling reason, namely, a sense of identifica-
tion with the juridical legacy of Professor Wolfgang G. Friedmann. I could sum up
this identification in a couple of points. To start with, in his days, Professor W. Fried-
mann accumulated his knowledge and experience in an essentially multicultural
environment, as I have been doing in the last decades. He published his major works
in distinct languages, as I have been doing over many years. He stressed the rele-
vance of international organizations and multilateralism, as I do. He pursued, as I
do, an essentially universalist approach to International Law.
He had the opportunity to deliver a General Course of Public International Law
at the Hague Academy, in 1969, as I did, in 2005. In his General Course, he presented
his own views on the international legal order of his t imes, as I have recently done, at
the same Hague Academy in my General Course. Yet, there are four decades which
form a gap between the time of the peak of his i ntellectual production, and the current
days in which, like he did, I also attempt to leave my perceptions of the discipline for
the future generations of scholars. The world has much changed in the last four de-
cades, and so have the challenges that face the international community nowadays.
There are also, not surprisingly, other differences in our perceptions. Profes-
sor W. Friedmann was attentive to realism, whilst I have been a staunch critic of
“realist thinking”2. Yet, this in no way affects the identity shared of basic outlook of
International Law, further encompassing its temporal dimension, the sensitiveness
to change, the acknowledgement of the position of the individuals (alongside States,
1 Discurso proferido pelo Autor na sessão solene de outorga do título honorário “Wolfgang
Friedmann Memoria l Award”, por suas “outstanding contributions to t he field of International
Law”, realizada em Columbia University, em Nova York, N.Y., no auditório da referida
Universidade, na noite de 08 de abril de 2008; discurso origi nalmente publicado in 47 Columbia
Journal of Transnational Law (2008) n. 1, pp. 16-30.
2 Cf. A.A. Cançado Trindade, International Law for Humank ind: Towards a New Jus Gentium
– General Course on Public Internat ional Law – Part I”, 316 Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit
International de la Haye (2005) pp. 79-82.
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