Edward McWhinney

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Edward Watson "Ted" McWhinney QC (born May 19, 1924 in Sydney , † May 19, 2015 ) was a Canadian legal scholar. From 1993 to 2000 he was a member of the Canadian lower house for the Liberal Party .

Life

McWhinney received his PhD from Yale University and then carried out research as a post-doctoral student in The Hague , Berlin , Pisa and Geneva . For four years he was a lecturer in law and political science at Yale and was subsequently a professor at the University of Toronto , McGill University , Indiana University and Simon Fraser University . In McGill he was also appointed director of the Institute for Air Law . He also taught in 1968, 1982 and 1985 at the Sorbonne in Paris , and later at the University of Paris I . McWhinney worked as a visiting professor at Heidelberg University and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (1960–1961 and 1990), at Meiji University and in 1973, 1990 and 2002 at the Hague Academy for International Law .

In 1967 McWhinney became the first Canadian to become a member of the Institut de Droit international and was its president from 1999 to 2001. He was also a member of the Canadian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations at the beginning of the 1980s and from 1985 to 1991 a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

In 1993 he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Vancouver Quadra constituency and in 1997 he was re-elected for another term. He did not stand for election in 2000.

McWhinney worked several times in the course of his career as a consultant, including for the Secretary General of the United Nations , various premiers of Québec , for the Prime Minister of Ontario , as well as the Canadian and several foreign governments.

In 1997 he was awarded the Aristotle Medal of the Greek government for his services .

Publications (selection)

McWhinney was the author and editor of over 30 books, including one in German, as well as around 500 scientific articles.

  • “Peaceful coexistence” and soviet-western international law . Sythoff, Leiden 1964.
  • Federalism and Federal Constitutional Law . Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1962.
  • Constitution-making: Principles, Process, Practice . Univ. of Toronto Pr., Toronto 1981, ISBN 0-8020-5553-2 .
  • Judge Shigeru Oda and the Progressive Development of International Law: Opinions (Declarations, Separate Opinions, Dissents) on the International Court of Justice, 1976-1992 . Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1993, ISBN 0-79-232257-6 .
  • Judge Manfred Lachs and judicial law-making: opinions on the International Court of Justice, 1967-1993 . Nijhoff, The Hague 1995, ISBN 90-411-0125-X .

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personal data
SURNAME McWhinney, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McWhinney, Edward Watson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2015