...Jessup played a critical role in drafting the charters and statutes that formed many of today’s leading international organizations.
Jessup’s initial work began in 1943, when he was named the chief of training and personnel at the State Department’s Office for Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation (which later became the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).
Working with the State Department in the 1940s, Jessup also served as assistant secretary at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 that resulted in the formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Following World War II, Jessup participated in the development of the statute of the International Court of Justice and served on the Committee on the Codification and Progressive Development of International Law, which drafted the statute of the International Law Commission.
Jessup’s dedication to research and scholarly pursuits during this time kept him deeply tied to Columbia Law School, where he was appointed the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy. In 1948, he published his much-acclaimed book The Modern Law of Nations.
Not only did Jessup have an active role in developing the legal structures of the United Nations, he became a skilled diplomat in that arena.
In 1948, he was appointed deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations Security Council and from 1949 to 1953, he served as ambassador-at-large, in which capacity he was embroiled in numerous diplomatic negotiations during the growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
From his vast experience in United Nations negotiations, Jessup later wrote a series of Hague Academy lectures entitled Parliamentary Diplomacy on procedure and politics at the United Nations.
Years later, in 1974, Jessup also wrote The Birth of Nations, which described in detail many of the diplomatic and political struggles within the post-war United Nations, including efforts to develop a trusteeship for a Palestinian territory as a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict....
...Overcoming the obstacles posed by McCarthy’s tactics, Truman granted Jessup a one year recess appointment to the post in 1952. Jessup then returned to academia in 1953 at Columbia Law School and became a symbol of resistance to the McCarthy movement. In 1955, he was elected President of the American Society of International Law, and in 1959, Vice President of the Institut de Droit International...
http://www.judicialmonitor.org/archive_summer2010/leadingfigures.html
There’s nothing about his personal life...
Genevieve Cook (Obama’s ex-girlfriend) Weds Accountant
Published: October 23, 1988
At the Cosmopolitan Club in New York, Genevieve Hogan Cook, a daughter of Mrs. Philip C. Jessup Jr. of Washington and Michael J. Cook of Canberra, Australia, was married yesterday to MOHAMED MOUSTAFA, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mahmoud H. Moustafa of Alexandria, Egypt. Judge Richard M. Palmer of Family Court in Manhattan officated.
The bride’s sister, Francesca Munro Cook, was the maid of honor, and their brother, Alexander Ibbitson Cook, was the best man.
The bride, who will be known as Mrs. Moustafa-Cook, graduated from the Emma Willard School and Swarthmore College, and received a master’s degree in education from the Bank Street College of Education. Her mother, Helen Ibbitson Jessup, is an architectural historian and a specialist in INDONESIAN ART. Her father, a former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, is the director of the Office of National Assessments, a Government agency in Canberra. Her stepfather, a former corporate secretary and general counsel of the International Nickel Company in New York and Toronto, is the secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/style/genevieve-cook-weds-accountant.html
Becoming Obama: From Harlem To The White House
Posted on May 28, 2012
...Genevieve Cook came from not one but several distinguished families. Her father, Michael J. Cook, was a prominent Australian diplomat. Genevieve’s mother, born Helen Ibbitson, came from a banking family in Melbourne and was an art historian. Michael and Helen divorced when Genevieve was 10. Helen soon remarried into a well-known American family, the JESSUPS. With homes in Georgetown and on Park Avenue at various times, Philip C. Jessup Jr. served as general counsel for the National Gallery of Art, in Washington. The Jessups were establishment Democrats. Philip’s father had been a major figure in American postwar diplomacy....
...Much later, after the publication of his book Dreams from My Father, and after Barack Obama became famous, a curiosity arose about the mystery woman of his New York years. “There was a woman in New York that I loved,” he wrote....
...The initials “B.I.” in that journal entry stood for Obama’s employer, Business International, located at 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, on Second Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets. Business International had been operating for nearly 30 years by the time Obama went to work there. Established in 1954, its stated goal was “to advance profitable corporate and economic growth in socially desirable ways.”...
...If Barack and Genevieve were in social occasions as a couple, it was almost always with the Pakistanis....
http://harlemworldmag.com/2012/05/28/becoming-obama-from-harlem-to-the-white-house/#more-56056