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Hugo Caminos, Senior Lecturer in International Law, is a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. He is a former under-secretary for legal affairs and legal counsel for the Organization of American States. He has been Argentina's ambassador to Brazil, deputy director of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, United Nations observer at various international groups charged with working out agreements on fishing and other law of the sea issues, a member of the group of experts appointed by the OAS to make recommendations to solve a border incident between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, a representative of Argentina to the United Nations, and a member of the Argentine National Group of The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is professor emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires' School of Law and Social Sciences, has been professor of international law at Argentina's Institute of the Foreign Service, and has lectured and written extensively on international law and law of the sea in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. He received a law degree in 1942 and a J.D. in 1964 from the University of Buenos Aires. Professor Caminos is a member of the Institut de Droit International. At the University of Miami School of Law, where he is a frequent Visiting Professor, he teaches courses and seminars on the law of the sea, international law, and law of the inter-American system.In Spring 2009, he will teach a seminar on the Law of the Sea.
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