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Wang Tieya
Wang Tieya (; 6 July 1913 – 12 January 2003) was an eminent Chinese jurist and former Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Wang Tieya was educated at Tsinghua University and the London School of Economics.
Following the communist victory in 1949, Wang Tieya became one of the leading authorities on international law in the People's Republic of China, along with Li Haopei, one of his classmates in London. Wang was legal advisor to the PRC delegation to the United Nations in 1950
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Following the Open Door Policy in China, Wang Tieya was feted abroad. He was a visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School (1980-1989), visiting Professor to the Hague Academy of International Law (1984), and also taught at the University of British Columbia (1988), and the University of California (1989). Wang became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was also a member and