Claudio Grossman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chilean-American legal academic
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Place of Birth: Valparaíso, Valparaíso Region, Chile
About Claudio Grossman
- Claudio Mauricio Grossman Guiloff (born November 26, 1947) is a lawyer and law professor.
- From 1995 until the summer of 2016, he served as dean of the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, D.C.
- He continues to teach at the Washington College of Law and serve as Dean Emeritus.
- In November 2016, he was elected to the United Nations International Law Commission for a five-year term.
- Grossman has also served as vice chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture (2003-2008) and as Chairperson (2008-2015).
- He is a former member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (1993-2001).
- He was twice elected its president, first in 1996 and again in 2001.
- He was the IACHR's first Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women (1996-2000), as well as its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Populations (2000-2001). Grossman was born in Valparaíso, Chile.
- He attended the law school at the University of Chile in Santiago.
- He received his Licenciado en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales in March 1971, with a summa cum laude thesis "Nacionalización y Compensación," coauthored with Carlos Portales. Grossman served as a lecturer in the University of Chile's Faculty of Law in 1972 and as a research fellow at the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile in 1973.
- From 1974-1980 Grossman was associate professor in international law at the Department of International Organizations of the Europa Institute of the Law School of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
- In August 1980 Grossman earned the Doctor in de Rechtsgeleerdheid (Doctor of the Science of Law) at the University of Amsterdam.
- His thesis was Het Beginsel van Non-Interventie in de Organizatie van Amerikaanse Staten (The Principle of Non-Intervention in the Organization of American States).
- From 1980-1983, Grossman was professor in international law at the Department of Law, Universiteit Twente.
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