Mohammed Hamoud

Mohammed H. Hamoud (*  1936 ) is an Iraqi lawyer and diplomat.

Life

Hamoud completed his university education at the University of Baghdad , where he was awarded a Bachelor of Law in 1959 . After completing his studies, he first worked as a lawyer. In 1962, Hamoud took up postgraduate studies specializing in public law at the University of Montpellier . He successfully completed this in 1965. Two years later, also in Montpellier, he was awarded his doctorate . In the same year he started teaching as a lecturer at his alma mater . After 1973, the Hague Academy of International Law had visited, he received a call to a professorship in international law at the University of Baghdad. He initially held this position until 1981. During this time, from 1974 to 1979, he also headed the department for international law at the law faculty of the university. In 1981 he was first envoy and then ambassador to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. Until 1986 he headed the legal department of the ministry. He then returned to his professorship at the university in 1986 and then resumed the legal profession in 1988. Between 1997 and 2003 Hamoud worked several times as a consultant for the Foreign Ministry in his home country. After the end of the Third Iraq War , he returned to the public service , initially taking over the management of the legal department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs again, before being appointed Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. There he was responsible for international organizations and human rights until 2010 . In this position, Hamoud was entrusted, among other things, with coordinating the cooperation between the United Nations organizations and the Iraqi government. In addition, as deputy chairman of the constitutional committee, he was instrumental in drafting the Iraqi constitution. At the international level, Hamoud appeared among other things as a member of the Iraqi delegation in the negotiations on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea . He also led the Iraqi delegation in the negotiations to establish the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Seabed Authority . In 2014 Hamoud was proposed for election as judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg , but failed. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae in the UN press release SPLOS / 266 pp. 13–19