David Heywood Anderson

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David Heywood Anderson CMG (born  September 14, 1937 in Huddersfield , Yorkshire ) is a British lawyer and diplomat . He served in the UK Foreign Office for more than three decades and served as a judge at the International Tribunal from 1996 to 2005 .

Life

David Anderson was born in Huddersfield in 1937 and studied law at the University of Leeds , where he received an LL.B. degree in 1958 . Two years later he completed his studies at the London School of Economics with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He then worked as a legal advisor in the British Foreign Office until 1969 . From 1969 to 1972 he worked in the same position in the British embassy in Bonn . He then returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he served as legal advisor from 1972 to 1979 and 1982 to 1987. From 1979 to 1982 he held the same position at the permanent representation of his home country at the UN headquarters in New York . Until 1996 he worked in senior legal positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the 1970s he represented Great Britain in several cases before the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights . He was also a member of his home country's delegation to various international conferences, including the 1969 negotiations on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and various maritime law conferences . From 1995 David Anderson was a visiting professor at the University of Durham and from 1996 to 2001 also at University College London . In October 1996 he was appointed judge at the newly established International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg , where he worked until 2005. Anderson remained connected to the work of the Tribunal. On November 4, 2013, he was sworn in as an ad hoc judge in the proceedings between the Netherlands and Russia regarding the determination of the Arctic Sunrise .

David Anderson was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1982 .

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. Press release No. 203 of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea of ​​October 30, 2013 (PDF; 27 kB)

literature

  • David Heywood Anderson Biography in the 1998 Yearbook of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea p. 64