Peter Sand
Peter Heinz Sand (born October 14, 1936 in Würzburg ) is a German legal scholar, specializing in international environmental law .
Life
After graduating from the Holbein Gymnasium in Augsburg , Sand first studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1954 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hubertia Munich . When he was inactive , he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Saarland . In 1958 he passed the first state examination and in 1959 the diploma examination at the Europa-Institut Saarbrücken . He received his doctorate in international law from the University of Paris in 1960 . He graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a Master of Laws in 1962 . In the same year he went to the University of California at Berkeley as a Graduate Research Fellow ; 1963 Assistant Professor , from 1968 Associate Professor at McGill University. Since 1970 he has worked as a consultant for environmental law for a number of international organizations: as Legal Officer / Senior Legal Officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome , as Secretary General for the Washington Convention on Endangered Species and Deputy Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in Switzerland, as head of the legal department in the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi , as Senior Environmental Affairs Officer for the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva and Principal Program Officer for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 , most recently as environmental legal advisor for the World Bank in Washington.
After his retirement in 1994 he was director of studies at the Hague Academy of International Law , since 1995 lecturer in international environmental law at the University of Munich and from 1999 to 2005 commissioner for environmental damage at the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) in Geneva.
Visiting professorships
- University of Addis Ababa , Faculty of Law (1965–1968)
- University of Geneva , Duke-Geneva Institute for Transnational Law (1998)
- University of Paris II , University Institute for International Studies and Development (2000)
- Duke University School of Law, Durham / North Carolina (2002)
- University of Helsinki , Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (2008)
- UNITAR Training and Research Institute of the United Nations , Distance Course in International Environmental Law, Geneva (2011–2012)
Honorary positions
- Scientific Steering Committee, UNESCO / IDHP Project on Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) (1999–2001)
Publications
- Lessons Learned in Global Environmental Governance. Washington 1990, ISBN 0-915825-56-2 . (Chinese translation: Beijing 1997, ISBN 7-80135-218-1 )
- Transnational Environmental Law. The Hague 1999, ISBN 1-85333-275-5 .
- Atoll Diego Garcia: Conservation between human rights and power politics. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8316-4055-3 .
editor
Prices
- Elisabeth Haub Prize for International Environmental Law (2004)
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 23rd edition. Volume 3, Munich 2011.
- Who's who . 27th edition. New Providence / New Jersey 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Sand in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the sand family
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 80/1105.
- ↑ a b c CV (LMU) ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ UNCC
- ^ Duke-Geneva Institute
- ↑ Publications (LMU) ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ awarded by the International Council of Environmental Law and the Université Libre de Bruxelles
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sand, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sand, Peter Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |