Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (19 October 1913 – 4 August 2004) was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1982 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1982. He served as President of the ICJ between 1991 and 1994 before he resigned from the Court on 10 July 1995.
Birth and education
Jennings was born in Yorkshire, England, in the village of Idle He was a president of the Institut de droit international, received honorary doctorates from the universities of Hull, Leicester and the Saarland, as well as Oxford and Cambridge.
He was an editor of the British Yearbook of International Law; co-authored (with Sir Arthur Watts) 9th edition of Oppenheim's International Law. His other important publications include The Acquisition of Territory in International Law. they had one son and two daughters. Outside of his legal field, he enjoyed spending time in the Lake District from a small cottage in Eskdale near Scafell Pike, spending time gardening and rebuilding dry-stone walls.
Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings died of natural causes on 4 August 2004 (aged 90) and was buried in Cambridgeshire, England.
See also
- Judges of the International Court of Justice
- Whewell Professorship of International Law