Tafsir Malick Ndiaye

Judge Tafsir Malick Ndiaye

Tafsir Malick Ndiaye (born February 7, 1953 in Kaolack , Senegal ) is a Senegalese lawyer and judge at the International Tribunal for the Sea .

Life

Ndiaye completed an internship at the United Nations as part of his law studies in 1979 , before graduating from the Institut des hautes études internationales in Paris as the best of his class in 1980 . This was followed by postgraduate studies specializing in international law , which Ndiaye also completed as the best of his class in 1980. After a stay at the Hague Academy for International Law in 1981, he received his doctorate in law magna cum laude in 1984 .

From 1984 to 1985 he worked at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar . In the Maritime Delimitation between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal (Guinea-Bissau v. Senegal) case, Ndiaye represented Senegal before an arbitration tribunal in Geneva (1985–1989) and before the International Court of Justice (1989–1991). In 1991 he was also rapporteur for the Commission for the Reform of Senegalese Electoral Law. Since 1996 Ndiaye has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg .

Awards

• Bearer of the Senegalese national order Ordre national du Lion since 1995
• Holder of the Senegalese Ordre national du Mérite since 1998

Publications (selection)

• Le président en exercice de l'Organisation de l'Unité Africaine, éléments pour une théorie de l'institution à la lumière de l'expérience sénégalaise. Nouvelles Éditions Africaines, Dakar 1988, ISBN 2-7236-1049-7
• Law of the sea, environmental law and settlement of disputes, liber amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah. Nijhoff, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16156-6
• Proceedings on the merits before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea . In: The Indian journal of international law . Volume 48 (2008) ISSN  0019-5294 , p. 215.

Web links

• ITLOS - Judge Tafsir Malick Ndiaye biography on the website of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (English, with picture)