Robert Kurt Woetzel

At Oxford, he became close friends with A. N. R. Robinson, who in 1989, as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, reintroduced a proposal for an International Criminal Court to the United Nations General Assembly.

[2] An earlier UN effort to create an international criminal court in the early 1950s had failed due to the Cold War.

In 1989, Woetzel assisted A. N. R. Robinson and Benjamin Ferencz in drafting the proposal that reintroduced the idea of an International Criminal Court to the General Assembly.

Article 2 of this Magna Carta called again for the UN to establish “An International Criminal Court, composed of distinguished jurists.

.”4 [4] Robert Woetzel's other books include The Problem of Germany: A Post-war Analysis (1952), The International Control of Outer Space (1961), and The Philosophy of Freedom (1966).

Woetzel died in 1991 of a heart attack at his home in Santa Barbara, not surviving to see the birth of the International Criminal Court that he had advocated for many years.

Damian Woetzel was a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet until his retirement in 2008; in 2018, he became president of the Juilliard School.