Ted McWhinney

Edward Watson McWhinney QC ( born May 19, 1924 in Sydney ) is a Canadian jurist. From 1993 to 2000 he was a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Liberal Party.

Life

McWhinney received his doctorate from Yale University and then worked as a research post-doctoral researcher in The Hague, Berlin, Pisa and Geneva. For four years he worked at Yale as a lecturer in law and political science, and then worked as a professor at the University of Toronto, McGill University, Indiana University and Simon Fraser University. In McGill, he was also appointed Director of the Institute of Aviation Law. In addition, he taught in 1968, 1982 and 1985 at the Sorbonne in Paris, and later at the University of Paris I. McWhinney served as a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ( 1960-1961 and 1990 ) at Meiji University and in the years 1973, 1990 and 2002 at the Hague Academy of International Law.

1967 McWhinney was the first Canadian member of the Institut de Droit International and was its president from 1999 to 2001. He was also the beginning of the 1980s, a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly from 1985 to 1991 Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

He was for the Liberal Party of Canada in the constituency Vancouver Quadra elected to the Canadian House of Commons and re-elected in 1997 for another term in 1993. In the elections in 2000, he did not run.

McWhinney worked throughout his career several times as a consultant, so among other things, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, various Premiers of Quebec, for the Prime Minister of Ontario, and the Canadian and several foreign governments.

For his services to him in 1997 the Aristotle Medal of the Greek Government was awarded.

Publications (selection )

McWhinney is the author and editor of over 30 books, including one on scientific German, as well as approximately 500 articles.

• "Peaceful coexistence " and soviet - western international law. Sythoff, Leiden 1964.
• Federalism and federal constitutional law. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1962.
• Judge Shigeru Oda and the Progressive Development of International Law: Opinions ( Declarations, Separate Opinions, dissent ) on the International Court of Justice, 1976-1992. Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1993, ISBN 0-79-232257-6.
• Judge Manfred Lachs and judicial law -making: opinions on the International Court of Justice, 1967-1993. Nijhoff, The Hague 1995, ISBN 90-411-0125- X.