GIOVANNI CONSO (ITALY) ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
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GIOVANNI CONSO (ITALY) ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
19980615 Biographical Note Giovanni Conso of Italy was elected today as President of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court.Mr. Conso has had a distinguished career in law. Since 1995, he has been Chairman of a ministerial committee revising Italy's Code of Criminal Procedure. He previously served as Vice-Chairman of a committee which drafted the new criminal code (1974-1982). He also headed a government project on the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1993).
A former Minister of Justice, Mr. Conso served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy for nine years from 1982, and as its President from October 1990 to February 1991. He was a member of the Superior Council of the Magistrature in Italy from 1976 to 1981 and its Vice-President in 1981. He is a member of the Committee on Transparency and Information for the Jubilee in the year 2000, appointed by a special government committee of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
As Minister of Justice, he participated in a number of international conferences, including the regular session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in Vienna in 1993, a meeting of Ministers of the Interior and Justice of the European Economic Community at Brussels in March 1994, and conferences of the European Constitutional Courts in 1984, 1987 and 1990.
Mr. Conso has published extensively on criminal procedure and other legal issues. He has also edited a number of publications dealing with criminal law and procedure. He has presented papers at conferences and seminars of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, and at other meetings. Last year, he presented papers at conferences organized in Paris and Malta respectively by the "No Peace Without Justice" organization on the establishment of an international criminal court.
Mr. Conso has held professorial appointments at various universities in Italy. He is currently professor of criminal procedure at LUISS University (Rome) and professor of constitutional law at LUMSA University also in Rome. He belongs to a number of professional organizations, including Association international de droit penal, Accademia dei Lincei (Rome) and the Academy of Sciences (Turin). He was a member of the Italian Bar Association (1949-1976), and has been a member of the Italian Journalists Association since 1946.
Born in Turin in 1922, Mr. Conso graduated in law magna cum laude from the University of Turin in 1945. * *** *