讲座主题：Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea and the Role and Jurisprudence of ITLOS

讲座人：Judge Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

主持人：郭剑萍 副教授

讲座时间：2025年12月4日，10:00-11:30

讲座地点：兴庆校区E910

Judge Tomas Heidar (Iceland) is President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He has been Judge of the Tribunal since 2014 and was President of the ITLOS Chamber for Fisheries Disputes 2017-2020 and Vice-President of the Tribunal 2020-2023. He was a Member of the ITLOS Special Chamber in theDispute concerningdelimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

From 1996-2014, Judge Heidar served as Legal Adviser of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, attaining the rank of Ambassador. As such he was responsible for all matters of public international law and represented Iceland regularly at meetings on ocean affairs and the law of the sea at the United Nations and in other international fora.

Judge Heidar is also Director of the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland and Co-director and lecturer of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy. Judge Heidar has published numerous books and articles on ocean affairs and the law of the sea, most recentlyNew Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea(ed., Brill Nijhoff, 2020), “The Contribution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the Protection of the Marine Environment” in the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (2021) andInternational Fisheries Law: Persistent and Emerging Challenges(co-ed., Routledge, 2025). He is also Conciliator and Arbitrator under Annexes V and VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.