DP O'Connell

DP O'Connell ( Daniel Patrick O'Connell; born  July 7, 1924 in Auckland , †  June 8, 1979 in Oxford ) was a New Zealand lawyer who was best known for his publications in the field of international law . From 1962 to 1972 he was Professor at the University of Adelaide and then until his death as Chichele Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford .

Life

DP O'Connell was born in Auckland in 1924 and, after studying at the university there, earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 1948 and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree five years later . He then taught history and law at the university . After his license to practice law in New Zealand in 1947, he received two years later, a scholarship to study at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , where he in 1951 under the supervision of Hersch Lauterpacht in the field of international law doctorate . His special interest was the legal succession of states .

After a brief activity as a lawyer in private practice, he became a lecturer in 1953 and, nine years later, professor of international law at the University of Adelaide . His textbook on international law, first published in 1965 under the title “International Law”, was at that time the most important work in this area alongside the “International Law: A Treatise” founded by Lassa Oppenheim . In 1972 he succeeded Humphrey Waldock Chichele Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford . Here he published "The International Law of the Sea", which appeared in 1982 and thus after his death, his second important work.

In 1967 he was appointed a member of the Institut de Droit international and in 1971 a member of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences . Daniel O'Connell was a practicing Catholic , in 1968 he published a monographic treatise on the French Cardinal Richelieu out of historical interest . Together with his wife, with whom he had been married since 1957, he had two daughters and three sons. He died in Oxford in 1979, shortly after surgery for a diaphragmatic hernia, of a rupture in the esophagus .

Works (selection)

• International Law. Two volumes. London 1965
• State Succession in Municipal Law and International Law. Cambridge 1967
• Richelieu. London 1968
  • Richelieu. Cardinal, statesman, revolutionary. Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-453-55046-9
• The Influence of Law on Sea Power. Manchester 1975
• The International Law of the Sea. Two volumes. Oxford 1982

literature

• IA Shearer: O'Connell, Daniel Patrick (1924-1979). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume 15. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 2000, ISBN 0-52-284843-5 , pp. 514/515
• Daniel Patrick O'Connell, 1924-1979. Obituary in: Adelaide Law Review. 7 (2) / 1980. Adelaide Law Review Association, pp. 167-171, ISSN  0065-1915

Web links

• Literature by and about DP O'Connell in the catalog of the German National Library