Administrative Tribunal

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Under Regulation 22 of the Staff Regulations ("Staff Manual", pdf, 3428 kb) of the OECD:

The Administrative Tribunal is composed of 3 judges and 3 deputies from outside the Organisation.
They are appointed by the Council for a period of 3 years (renewable) from among persons of proven impartiality who are jurists or otherwise highly qualified in labour law or civil service law or in the field of labour relations at national or international level.
The Council also appoints the Chairman from among the judges, having regard to their judicial experience.
It is provided that the members of the Tribunal shall be of different nationalities and that, overall, their selection shall ensure that the main legal systems of the member countries of the Organisation are represented.

As of 1 January 2011, the Administrative Tribunal of the OECD is composed as follows.

Chairman	Judges	Deputies
Mr. Jan Paulsson Professor of International Law and Head of International Arbitration and Public International Law, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP Nationality: Swedish, French and Bahreini	Professor James Crawford Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge Nationality: Australian	Dr. Carl Otto Lenz Professor of European Law at the University of Saarbrucken Nationality: German
	Professor Luigi Condorelli Professor of International Law at the University of Florence Nationality: Italian	Mrs. Louise Otis Judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal and at the Superior Court of Quebec Nationality: Canadian
		Mr. Alfredo Madureira Judge “conseiller” at the Supreme Administrative Court Nationality: Portuguese

The current mandate of the Tribunal expires on 31 December 2013.