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Gilberto Amado Memorial Lecture Series
During the consideration of the Report of the Commission at the twenty-fifth session of the General Assembly (in 1970) t was suggested in the Sixth Committee, in connection with the discussion on the point concerning the International Law Seminar, that with a view to honouring the memory of Gilberto Amado, the illustrious Brazilian jurist and former member of the International Law Commission, the possibility should be considered of naming a series of sessions after him or of establishing a permanent conference in his name within the Seminar.
The Government of Brazil, consulted by Mr. T. O. Elias, Chair of the twenty-second session of the Commission, through Mr. Sette Camara, responded favourably to the idea and offered financial assistance. The Commission accepted a proposal by Mr. Elias that the memorial lecture should take the form of an annual commemoration to which the members of the Commission, the participants in the session of the International Law Seminar and about twenty-five other experts on international law, including the members of the Secretariat of the Commission, would be invited.
To date, the following memorial lectures have been presented:
- Judge Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, "The amendments to the rules of the International Court of Justice" (15 June 1972)
- Professor Constantin Eustathiades, "Unratified Codification Conventions" (11 July 1973)
- H.E. Mr. Manfred Lachs, "Some reflexions on the peaceful settlement of disputes" (11 June 1975)
- Sir Humphrey Waldock, "Aspects of the Court's Advisory Jurisdiction" (3 June 1976)
- Mr. Taslim O. Elias, "The International Court of Justice and the indication of provisional measures of protection" (7 June 1978)
- H.E. Mr. G. E. do Nascimento e Silva, "The Influence of Science and Technology on International Law" (3 June 1983)
- Professor Georges Abi-Saab, "Reflections on the contemporary processes of developing international law" (20 June 1985)
- Mr. Jose Sette-Camara, spoke on "Gilberto Amado, the man" (16 June 1987)
- Mr. Cançado Trindade, "Gilberto Amado and the International Law Commission" (16 June 1987)
- Mr. Carl-August Fleischhauer, "Reflections on legal aspects of United Nations peace-keeping" (14 June 1989)
- Mr. Francisco Rezek, "International law, diplomacy and the United Nations at the end of the twentieth century" (2 July 1991)
- Mr. Lucius Caflisch, "Peaceful settlement of international disputes — new tendencies" (2 June 1993)
- Mr. Celso Lafer, "The dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization" (18 June 1996)
- H.E. Amb. Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro, "The creation of the International Law Commission and some considerations on supposed new sources of international law" (13 May 1998)
- Prof. Alain Pellet, «Droits-de-l'Hommisme' et Droit International» (“Human Rightism and International Law”) (18 July 2000)
- Judge José Luis Jesus, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, "The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea" (15 July 2009)
- Professor Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant, “La portée du consentement comme fondement de l’autorité de la sentence de la Cour internationale de Justice” (19 July 2011)
- Prof. Paulo Borba Casella, University of Sao Paulo Law School, "Contemporary trends on opinio juris and the material evidence of international customary law" (17 July 2013)
(See Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1971, vol. II, Part One, paras. 164 to 169)