Karl Zemanek

Karl Zemanek (born November 18, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer . From 1958 he acted as associate professor and from 1964 to 1998 as full professor for international law and international organizations at the University of Vienna and from 1965 to 1988 as visiting professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and at the Austrian National Defense Academy . In addition, he represented his home country several times at the meetings of the UN General Assembly , at the General Conferences of UNESCO and at other international institutions and conferences. The main focus of his work was the law of international treaties and international organizations .

Life

Karl Zemanek was born in Vienna in 1929 and studied law at the universities of Vienna , Oxford , Paris and Saarbrücken . He received his doctorate in Vienna in 1952 and worked as an assistant at Saarland University from 1954 to 1956. After his habilitation under Alfred Verdross in Vienna, Karl Zemanek acted as a lecturer from 1957 and from 1958 as associate professor and from 1964 as full professor for international law and international organizations at the University of Vienna. In addition, he taught at the Austrian Military Academy from 1962 to 1965, as a visiting professor at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna and at the Austrian National Defense Academy from 1965 to 1988, and as a lecturer at the Hague Academy for International Law . In 1998 he retired .

In addition to his academic work, Karl Zemanek was also involved in diplomacy. From 1967 to 2003 he worked as legal advisor to the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was a member of the delegations in his home country to international organizations and conferences. He represented Austria at twelve sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations , between 1978 and 1985 at the General Conferences of UNESCO , between 1962 and 1976 in the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space of the United Nations and in 1968/1969 as head of the Austrian delegation in the negotiations on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties . He also acted as President of the UN Conferences at which the Vienna Convention on the Succession of States in International Treaties in 1977/1978 and the Convention on Contract Law of International Organizations were negotiated and adopted in 1986. Since 1977 he has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

Karl Zemanek became an associate member in 1973 and a full member in 1981 in the Institut de Droit international , for which he was Vice President from 1999 to 2001, and has also been a member of the International Academy of Astronautics since 1989 . He has been the holder of the Great Medal of Honor since 1971 and of the Great Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria since 1986 . In addition, he received the New Year's Eve Order in 1962 in the Komtur class and in 1978 in the Komtur with a star class, as well as the Grand Officer 's Cross of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit in the same year .

The contract law of international organizations. Vienna 1957
Freedom of navigation on the Danube and the future regime of the Rhine-Main-Danube-Grosschiffahrtsstrasse: an investigation under international law. Vienna and New York 1976
Switzerland in a changing world. Zurich 1977
Forms of liability in international law. Series: Series of publications of the Legal Society eV Berlin. Issue 102. Berlin 1986

Karl Zemanek. Biographical Note. In: Recueil des Cours. Volume 116. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1968, ISBN 9-02-861532-6 , pp. 185/186
Biographical Note: Karl Zemanek, born on November 18, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. In: Recueil des Cours. Volume 266. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 1998, ISBN 9-04-110590-5 , pp. 18/19

Konrad Ginther (ed.): International law between normative claims and political reality: Festschrift for Karl Zemanek on his 65th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-42-808175-7

personal data
SURNAME	Zemanek, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and international law expert, professor at the University of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna