Max Sørensen

Max Sørensen ( born February 19, 1913 in Copenhagen, † 11 October 1981) was a Danish diplomat and international law.

Life

The son of a wholesaler studied at the University of Copenhagen and at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies Law and in 1938 took a job at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1940 he married Ellen Jacobsen, daughter of Major-General. During his tenure in the Foreign Service in 1943, he worked as an embassy attaché in Bern and in 1944 as secretary of legation in London. In 1945 he was promoted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Head of Department.

This item Sørensen left two years later, we would just teach as professor international and constitutional law at the University of Aarhus. In the previous year he had earned his doctorate of rights. The international politics, he remained in diverse functions. In 1949 he was a member of the Danish delegation to the London Conference on the establishment of the Council of Europe was decided with the London Ten -Power Pact. Between 1949 and 1951 he represented Denmark at the UN Commission on Human Rights, from 1954 initiated two years the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and also sat up in a 1964 committee that dealt with the application of ILO Conventions.

In 1955 he was appointed to the European Commission of Human Rights, which he chaired from 1967 and served until 1972. From 1956 he served equally to 1972 as legal adviser in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the first two Seerechtskonferenzen the UN in 1958 and 1960, he stood in front of the Danish delegation. Of the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands, he was appointed as ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice for litigation in relation to the continental shelf under the North Sea ( 1968-1969 ). At the University of Arhus He retired in 1972.

In 1973 he accepted the office of judge at the European Court of Justice, which he held until 1979. The following year he was appointed judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Sørensen was the first of four lawyers who administered justice at both institutions. He died in 1981 at the age of 68 years.

He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Institute of International Law and the trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Hague Academy of International Law. At the latter he gave two guest lectures on the topics " Le Conseil de L'Europe " (1952) and " Principes de droit international public" ( 1960).

Work

At the age of 19 years Sørensen published his first legal article entitled " La prescription en droit international". When his most important works are " Les sources du droit international" (1946) and his lecture " Principes de droit international public ' at the Hague Academy of International Law ( 1960). He was editor of the International Law textbook "Manual of Public International Law ", containing the contributions of lawyers from twelve countries, and was a member of the editorial committee of the " Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights ".

Awards

  • Honorary doctorate from the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel (1964 )
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg

Swell

  • Erika Engel ( and others): European FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Magazine. Born 1980, pp. 308 N.P. Engel Verlag, Kehl am Rhein.
  • International Biographical Archive 42/1981 of October 5, 1981
  • Short biography on the website of the ECJ
  • Manfred Lachs: The teacher in international law. 2nd edition. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1987. Pp. 143-145.
  • Ignaz Seidl - Hohenveldern: Max Sørensen ( 19/02/1913 - 10/11/1981 ). In: Austrian Journal of Public Law and International Law. Issue 32, 129 Year 1982. S. 129
  • Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights. Volume 23, 1980, pp. 50-53. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. (online)
  • Danish diplomat
  • University teachers (University of Aarhus )
  • Legal scholars ( 20th century)
  • Richter ( Denmark)
  • Judge at the European Court of Justice
  • Judge (European Court of Human Rights)
  • Ad hoc judge ( International Court of The Hague)
  • Member of the Institut de Droit international
  • Dane
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 1981
  • Man
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