Alumnus/Alumna of the Month

Thomas Buergenthal ('60)

Read an Interview with Thomas Buergenthal.

Thomas Buergenthal currently serves on the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the Court in March 2000, Judge Buergenthal was the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School. His previous academic positions included, inter alia, the Fulbright and Jaworski Professorship at the University of Texas (Austin) and the Deanship of the American University's Washington College of Law (Washington, D.C.).

Judge Buergenthal also served as judge, Vice President and President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was Vice Chairman of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and a judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank.

In addition to his J.D. degree from NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar, Judge Buergenthal has the following degrees: B.A. from Bethany College (Bethany, WV), LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and various honorary degrees.