Aron Broches

Aron Broches was a Dutch legal scholar. He founded the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes and drafted the centre's founding convention. He was made part of the , and was murdered in Auschwitz on 25 August 1944. Six weeks later, they emigrated to the United States aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam.

Broches was a member of the Cosmos Club.

Career

On 18 December 1936, Broches graduated with a Master of Laws degree from the University of Amsterdam. On 6 July 1939, he defended his dissertation , on patent infringement, at the University of Amsterdam.

After arriving in New York, he enrolled at Fordham University School of Law to continue his studies in patent law.

In October 1945, Broches returned to the Netherlands. In a few years he rebuilt his deceased father's Broches cigarette factory. During the Second World War, the factory was closed, and all the machinery was stolen by the Nazis. The factory was eventually sold to a larger firm in 1953.

Death

Broches died on 9 September 1997 in the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.