David Attard

David Attard, 2013

David Joseph Attard (born March  29, 1953 in Sliema ) is a Maltese lawyer and expert in the field of international sea law . He was a professor at the University of Malta from 1986 to 2011 and has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea since October 2011 . For his services he was accepted into the French Legion of Honor and was awarded the Spanish Order de Isabel la Católica and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Life

David Attard was in 1953 Sliema born and graduated in 1978 to study law at the University of Malta with the LL.D. from. He also received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1986 . He is also both in his home country over the bar in the Middle Temple in Britain as a lawyer admitted.

From 1986 he taught as an associate and from 1988 to 2011 as a full professor the subjects of international law , constitutional law , comparative law , private international law and law of the sea at the University of Malta. From 1992 to 2011 he headed the Malta-based International Maritime Law Institute , part of the International Maritime Organization . He was also a visiting professor at the University of Tor Vergata (1994) and at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2007/2008), and in 2000 with a Fulbright scholarship at the law faculty of Yale University . From 2004 to 2011 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration .

David Attard has advised various governments on international law matters, in particular on issues relating to the exploration and development of maritime resources and negotiations on the delimitation of the continental shelf , the territorial waters and exclusive economic zones . In addition, in 1987 he acted as head of the Maltese delegation to the United Nations Preparatory Commission for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea , in 1988 as an advisor to the Maltese delegation to the 43rd session of the UN General Assembly and several times as special envoy of the Foreign Ministry in his home country.

In June 2011 he was elected judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg . His regular nine-year term began in October 2011.

David Attard is married and has three children.

Awards

David Attard has been a Knight of the French Legion of Honor since 2004 and an officer of the National Order of Merit in his home country since 2007 . In addition, he received the Spanish Order de Isabel la Católica in the Encomienda de Número class in 2009 and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2010 . Since 2002 he has been an honorary member of the Comité Maritime International . In 1988 he was awarded the Paul Guggenheim Prize by the University Institute for International Studies and Development in Geneva for his work “The Exclusive Economic Zone in International Law” .

Works (selection)

• The Exclusive Economic Zone in International Law. Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law. Volume 1. Oxford and New York 1987
• Climate change. Malta 1989
• The Common Concern of Mankind in Relation to Global Environmental Issues. Valetta and Nairobi 1991 (as editor)

literature

• Attard, David Joseph. In: Curricula Vitae of Candidates Nominated by States Parties for Election to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Document SPLOS / 221. Published by the Assembly of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea on March 16, 2011, pp. 2–13

Web links

• ITLOS - Judge David Joseph Attard biography on the website of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (English, with picture)