Bruno
Simma is Professor of International Law and European Community Law, and
Director of the Institute of International Law at the University of Munich.
He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School,
where he had previously been on the faculty. From 1987-1996, he was a
Member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social
Rights, and has been a Member of the United Nations International Law
Commission since 1996. He serves the UN Secretary General as an expert
for conflict-prevention activities, and is a member of the German Foreign
Ministry's advisory boards on international law and United Nations issues.
Since 1994 he has acted as Counsel for Cameroon in the Case Concerning
the Land and Maritime Boundary Between Cameroon and Nigeria before the
International Court of Justice. Professor Simma is co-founder and co-editor
of the European Journal of International Law. The most recent of
his many publications to be available in English are two edited compilations,
The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (1995) and International
Protection of the Environment, Second Series: Treaties and Related Documents
(1990).
