Vice-President Budislav Vukas
(Member of the Tribunal since 1 October 1996; Vice-President of the Tribunal since 1 October 2002)

Education: LL.B. (1961), LL.M. (1965), Doctor of Law (International Law) (1974), Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb; attended courses at The Hague Academy of International Law (1961 and 1968–1970); participated in the Centre of the Academy for Studies and Research (International Law and International Relations) (1967).

Professional Experience: Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (Assistant 1963–1970, Lecturer 1970–1974, Assistant Professor 1974–1977, Professor 1977–present); lectured at the Universities of Belgrade, Bologna, Boston, Brest, Castellón, Ljubljana, Maribor, Milan, Osijek, Paris, Parma, Rijeka, Rome, Split, Thessaloniki, Tilburg and Valletta; directed a course on the law of the sea at the Dubrovnik Inter-University Centre (1984–2001); delivered a course on “States, Peoples and Minorities” at The Hague Academy of International Law (1992); consultant for UNEP, Nairobi (1981 and 1991) and its Co-ordinating Unit for the Mediterranean Action Plan, Athens (1985 and 1990); participated in: Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (1975–1982); Preparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1984–1990 and 1994); International Seabed Authority (1994–1996); Meetings of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1994–1996); the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly (1990, 1991, 1995); Working Group on the UN Decade of International Law of the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly (Chairman 1990); CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension, Copenhagen Meeting (1990); CSCE Meeting of Experts on National Minorities, Geneva (1991); World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna (1993); 26th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva (1995).

Member: Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Organization (1985–present); Commission of Inquiry formed under Article 26 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization to examine the observance by Romania of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) (1989–1991); Commission of Inquiry to Examine the Observance by the Government of Belarus of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) and Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) (President 2003–2004); Scientific Council of the European Institute for Marine Studies, Brest, France (1997–present); Scientific Council of the Institute for Economic Law of the Sea, Monaco (2000–present); Permanent Court of Arbitration (1989–1991 and 1999–present); Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (1995–present); Institut de droit international (Associate member 1991–1997, Member 1997–present); founding member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Studies (2001); founding member of the Association internationale du droit de la mer (2001); Croatian Society of International Law (1961–present); Société française pour le droit international (1978–present); Argentine Association of International Law (2002–present); International Council of Environmental Law, Bonn (1978–present); Judge ad hoc in the case before the International Court of Justice concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Yugoslavia) (2000–present).

Publications: Author of numerous books, monographs, articles and papers in various fields of public international law, in particular law of the sea, international environmental law, international protection of human rights and national minorities, including The Relativity of Treaties (in Croatian), 1975; Ethnic Minorities and International Relations (in Croatian), 1978; The New Law of the Sea (ed., in Croatian), 1982; Essays on the New Law of the Sea, Vol. I–III, (ed.), 1985–1996; The Legal Regime of Enclosed or Semi-Enclosed Seas: The Particular Case of the Mediterranean (ed.), 1988; International Law, Vol. I (with J. Andrassy and B. Bakotić, in Croatian), 1995; The Law of the Sea – Selected Writings, 2004.