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4 unusual facts about Joseph Dellapenna


Berlin Rules on Water Resources

In 1996, the ILA appointed Joseph Dellapenna to produce a compilation of water related laws, following the production of which in 1997 it decided to create a comprehensive document, addressing all freshwater resources as well as issues affecting the climate that impacts them.

Joseph Dellapenna

He is a regular visiting lecturer at the University of Macau and holds a three-year appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of South Australia.

He has also held senior Fulbright lectureships at National Chengchi University in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1978–79) and at Jilin University in the People’s Republic of China (1987–88), and was a Fulbright senior researcher with the Directory General of Natural Resources of the Republic of Portugal (1990), as well as visiting professor at Detroit College of Law, Widener University, and the Ohio State University.

Perhaps Dellapenna’s most noteworthy litigation was as co-counsel for the family of Raoul Wallenberg in a case brought by Wallenberg’s half-brother, Guy von Dardel.



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