Mario Oyarzabal

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Born
Mario Javier Agustín Oyarzabal

February 4, 1969
Azul, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
NationalityArgentine
CitizenshipArgentina
Alma materNational University of La Plata

Mario Oyarzábal (Azul, February 4, 1969) is an Argentine jurist and diplomat. He is the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons since 2020. He was Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Security Council (2013-2014), and Director General of the Legal Department and The Legal Adviser of the Foreign Ministry between 2016 and 2020.

He is a generalist ​​public and private international lawyer. He has taught courses at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2012 and 2020, and is the author of numerous publications in specialized journals in Argentina and abroad.[1]

In 2021 he was elected member of the United Nations International Law Commission for the period 2023-2027.[2]

Education

Oyarzábal graduated in 1991 as lawyer and in 1992 as notary public at the National University of La Plata,[3] and entered the Argentine Foreign Service Institute from which he graduated in 1996. In 2005 he obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University.[1]

Diplomatic Career

He joined the Argentine Foreign Service in 1997. He served in the Department of Parliamentary Affairs of the Foreign Ministry (1997-1998), the Consulate General in New York (state)|New York (1998-2004 and 2005-2007), the Legal Department of the Foreign Ministry (2007- 2011 and 2016-2020), the Permanent Mission to the United Nations (2011-2016) and the Embassy in the Netherlands (since 2020).[4][5]

In 2018 he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary with the approval of the National Senate. The following year, he was appointed Ambassador to the Netherlands by Decree No. 793/2019 of then President Mauricio Macri,[6][5] assuming functions during the administration of President Alberto Fernández.[7] He is also Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and represents Argentina before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and the Common Fund for Commodities of which he became Chairman of the Governing Council (2020-2022).[8]

Oyarzábal has represented the Argentine Republic on two occasions before the International Court of Justice in the case of the Uruguay River pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay as legal counsel, and in the Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute|Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (2019) as agent.[9]

In 2011 he was legal advisor in the first Advisory Opinion of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, on the responsibilities and obligations of States sponsoring persons and entities with respect to activities in the Area.

He is an arbitrator and conciliator appointed under Annexes V and VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea since 2017. In addition, he was an arbitrator and conciliator of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (2016-2022)[10] and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2019-2022).[11][2]

On the other hand, he has served as a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority (2012-2013),[12] the International Humanitarian Fact Finding Commission established by the 1949 Geneva Conventions (2017-2021), and the Committee for the Selection of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2019-2020).[13]

Academic Career

Oyarzábal has taught international law at the University of La Plata and the University of Buenos Aires, among other. In 2020, he taught a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on "The Influence of Public International Law on Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of Law".[14]

He is the author of 4 books and more than 50 contributions in collective works and academic articles published in legal journals such as the Rivista di diritto internazionale, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht,[15] Uniform Law Review, Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, University of Miami Inter -American Law Review,[16] Revista de Informação Legislativa; and publications such as the Encyclopedia of Private International Law[17] and the Argentine Yearbook of International Law.

Publications

  • El contrato de seguro multinacional. Ábaco, Buenos Aires, 1998.
  • La nacionalidad argentina. La Ley, Buenos Aires, 2003.[18]
  • Derecho procesal transnacional. Ábaco, Buenos Aires, 2012.
  • The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of the Law. Recueil des cours de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye, Vol. 428 (pp. 129-525), 2023.[19]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "H.E. Mr. Mario Oyarzábal is Argentina's Ambassador in The Hague". Diplomat magazine. 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "El embajador Mario Oyarzabal fue electo para la Comisión de Derecho Internacional de las Naciones Unidas". Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto (in español). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  3. "El azuleño Mario Oyarzábal será embajador en los Países Bajos | Vía Azul". Vía País (in español). 2019-11-28. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  4. Tiempo, Diario El. ""Es un enorme desafío y una gran oportunidad representar y servir al país"". www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Macri designó nuevo embajador en los Países Bajos". Télam (in español). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  6. "BOLETIN OFICIAL REPUBLICA ARGENTINA - SERVICIO EXTERIOR - Decreto 793/2019". www.boletinoficial.gob.ar. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  7. "Cartas credenciales del Embajador argentino en Holanda". Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto (in español). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  8. "32nd Meeting of the Governing Council | Common Fund for Commodities". www.common-fund.org. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  9. "Opinión Consultiva sobre las consecuencias jurídicas de la separación del Archipiélago de Chagos de Mauricio en 1965". cancilleria.gob.ar (in español). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  10. "Members Of The Panels Of Conciliators And Of Arbitrators" (PDF). International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
  11. "Members Of The Permanent Court Of Arbitration" (PDF). Permanent Court Of Arbitration. 2022.
  12. "Seabed Authority To Hold Legal And Technical Commission Elections In July 2011 – International Seabed Authority". Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  13. "President of the Assembly of States Parties welcomes the Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor and its panel of experts". International Criminal Court. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  14. "Available as of next week in Recueil des cours: Mario J. A. Oyarzábal, The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of the Law". Conflict of Laws. 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  15. Oyarzábal, Mario J. A. (2008). "Das Internationale Privatrech von Werner Goldschmidt: In Memoriam". Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht: The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law. 72 (3): 601–619. ISSN 0033-7250.
  16. Oyarzábal, Mario (2004-07-01). "International Electronic Contracts: A Note on Argentine Choice of Law Rules". University of Miami Inter-American Law Review. 35 (3): 499.
  17. "Encyclopedia of Private International Law". www.e-elgar.com. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  18. "Biblioteca del Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Nación". biblioteca.mpf.gov.ar. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  19. Oyarzábal, Mario J. A. (2022-12-28), "The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of the Law (Volume 428)", Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Brill, retrieved 2023-07-14

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