Saturday, 07/10/2017 10:31 (GMT+7)
On October 3rd, the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Mr. Paik Jin-hyun was elected as President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
Mr. Paik Jin-hyun (Source: itlos.org)
The ITLOS is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. It was established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on December 10th, 1982.
Paik Jin-Hyun is Professor of International Law at Seoul National University in Korea and was Dean of its Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS). He is also Judge of the ITLOS in Hamburg, Germany, since 2009.
He has specialized in international law and organization, law of the sea, and international dispute settlement. Professor Paik was a doctoral fellow at Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands.
Mr. Paik is currently President of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL). He received his LL.B. from Seoul National University, LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and Ph.D. in law from Cambridge University. He has written and edited over 130 articles and several books on international law and politics, law of the sea, and Korea’s foreign and security policies.
Paik Jin-hyun will succeed Mr. Vladimir Golitsyn for the next three years./.
Compiled by BTA