Sir Elihu Lauterpacht CBE QC (b. 13 July 1928) is a British academic and lawyer, specializing in the international law, a founder of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the Law Faculty of Cambridge University.
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Lauterpacht was born on 13 July 1928 in Cricklewood, Hertfordshire, to Rachel and Hersch Lauterpacht. As the Second World War broke out, Professor Hersch Lauterpacht was invited by the Carnegie Endowment to take a visiting professorship in the United States, so the Lauterpracht family evacuated to America[1]
For a year Lauterpacht attended the private Horace Mann School in the Bronx before joining the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[1] After graduating in June 1944 Lauterpacht returned to the United Kingdom.[1]
After returning to England Lauterpacht entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1945, initially reading history, before switching to the law tripos. In 1950 he was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn.[2] In 1953 he became a Fellow of Trinity College.[2] In 1970 he became a QC.[2][3] From 1975 to 1977 Lauterpacht served as legal advisor to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.[1]
Lauterpacht has also been an active academic at Cambridge University, where he was a Lecturer, and a Reader. In 1983 the Research Centre for International Law was founded by Lauterpacht at Cambridge, and he was its director until 1995.
After retirement, he continued to teach and giving courses at the London School of Economics (in 1995) and the Hague Academy of International Law (1996).[1]
During his career Elihu Lauterpacht appeared before the International Court of Justice in various cases — including: