The International Law Commission dates back to the 1924 League of Nations body, the Committee of Experts for the Progressive Codification of International Law.  Two years after the League of Nations was disolved in 1946, the newly formed United Nations General Assembly chose to create a new body to oversee the creation of international legal protocols and a coherent body of international law.  

Unlike most UN bodies, the ILC is not chaired by representatives from a particular country, but a group of 34 elected experts, nominated for their contributions to the field of international law.  Each member serves four years.  

The 2007-2011 ILC Members 

Ali Mohsen Fetais Al-Marri, Qatar
Mohammad Bello Adoke, Nigeria
Lucius Caflisch, Switzerland
Enrique J.A. Candiot,i Argentina
Pedro Comissario Afonso, Mozambique
Christopher John Robert Dugard, South Africa
Concepción Escobar Hernández, Spain
Salifou Fomba, Mali
Giorgio Gaja, Italy
Zdzislaw Galicki, Poland
Hussein A. Hassouna, Egypt
Mahmoud D. Hmoud, Jordan
Mr. Huang Huikang, China
Marie G. Jacobsson, Sweden
Maurice Kamto, Cameroon
Fathi Kemicha, Tunisia
Roman A. Kolodkin, Russian Federation
Donald M. McRae, Canada
Teodor V. Melescanu, Romania
Shinya Murase, Japan
Bernd H. Niehaus, Costa Rica
Georg Nolte, Germany
Alain Pellet, France
A. Rohan Perera, Sri Lanka
Ernest Petric, Slovenia
Gilberto Vergne Saboia, Brazil
Narinder Singh, India
Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Colombia
Edmundo Vargas Carreño, Chile
Stephen C. Vasciannie, Jamaica
Marcelo Vázquez-Bermudez, Ecuador
Amos S. Wako, Kenya
Nugroho Wisnumurti, Indonesia
Sir Michael Wood, United Kingdom