Tomas Heiðar

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Tómas H. Heiðar (born  August 10, 1962 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic lawyer and diplomat . He has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2014 .

Life

Tómas Heiðar received his university education between 1982 and 1988 at the University of Iceland . There he was awarded both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Laws . After completing his studies, he graduated from the Hague Academy of International Law and then initially worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Reykjavík. From 1992 he formed with a visit to the University of Copenhagen and the University of Saarland in European law further. In 1994 he entered the public service in his home country. Initially, he worked for the national commission for deep-sea fisheries and took part in negotiations with Norway and Russia on issues relating to fisheries in the Barents Sea . From 1996 he served as legal advisor to the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this activity, which lasted until 2009, Tómas Heiðar led numerous delegations from Iceland to international conferences. For example, from 1997 to 2002 he chaired the Icelandic delegation to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, took part in the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and led the Icelandic delegation in the negotiations on the establishment of the International Criminal Court . In 2009 his home country sent him to the International Whaling Commission . In addition to this activity, Tómas Heiðar was deputy chairman of the Committee for Fisheries until 2013 and played a key role in Iceland's accession negotiations with the European Union . In 2014 he was proposed by Iceland, Denmark , Finland , Norway and Sweden as a candidate for the post of judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea in Hamburg and was elected by the member states of the Convention on the Law of the Sea . His nine-year term began on October 1, 2014.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Legal and Scientific Aspects of Continental Shelf Limits . Martinus Nijhoff, 2004, together with John Norton Moore.
  • Emerging UN Law of the Sea Issues . In: Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Kuen-chen Fu (Ed.): Recent developments in the law of the sea and China . Nijhoff, Leiden 2006, ISBN 90-04-14841-8 , pp. 35-46.
  • The legal regime of the Arctic Ocean . In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law . Vol. 69 (2009), No. 3, ISSN  0044-2348 , pp. 635-640.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.utanrikisraduneyti.is/frettir/nr/8115 , accessed April 8, 2016
Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Tomas Heiðar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidar, Tomas H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic lawyer, judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík