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Administrative Tribunal of the OAS Celebrates its Fortieth Anniversary

  December 14, 2012

Administrative Tribunal of the OAS Celebrates its Fortieth Anniversary
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The Administrative Tribunal of the Organization of American States (OAS) celebrated this week the fortieth anniversary of its creation and installation as an autonomous organ with competence to hear disputes between the OAS General Secretariat and its officers.

On the occasion of the commemorations of its anniversary, celebrated this week at the Tribunal’s ordinary session in Buenos Aires, it was highlighted the vital role that this entity plays and that has been strengthened over the years by expanding its competence beyond the OAS General Secretariat reflects the two major legal traditions of the Hemisphere: the common-law tradition and the civil-law tradition.

The Tribunal’s precedents have received extensive citation in the judgments of other international tribunals, academic essays, legal journals, degree theses, and it has the merit of having produced historical decisions that have had a substantial impact in the OAS’s personnel policies. Its judges are elected by the Organization’s General Assembly to serve, on a strictly personal basis, for a period of six years.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: FNE-10971