José Luís Jesus (born September 20, 1950) is a former
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
an politician. He was
foreign minister
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral r ...
of the country from 1998-1999.
Biography
He was born in
Ribeira Grande Ribeira Grande may refer to the following places:
Cape Verde
* Ribeira Grande (stream), a stream on the island of Santo Antão
* Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, a town on the island of Santo Antão
* Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde (municipality), a municip ...
, in the north of
Santo Antão, one of the northernmost Cape Verdean communities. In 1978, he headed abroad to the
University of Lisbon
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ...
in Portugal not long after independence of his nation. Later in 1985, he took courses in international law, political sciences and politics at
St. John's University in New York City. From 1979 to 1982, he headed a delegation of his country at the third UN conference on maritime law. He also served as chairmen of the Group of African States at the United Nations in 1986. He became Foreign Minister from 1998 to 1999. He was later Cape Verdean ambassador to Israel, Portugal and Spain from 1994 to 1996.
Since October 1, 1999, he has been judge at the International Tribune in Hamburg. Later, he was president of the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (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 ...
(ITLOS) from 2008 to 2011. He succeeded the German jurist
Rüdiger Wolfrum and was succeeded by the Japanese
Shunji Yanai.
Publications
*''Intervention in the domestic affairs on humanitarian grounds and international law''. In: Volkmar Götz (Hrsg.): ''Liber amicorum
Günther Jaenicke - zum 85. Geburtstag''. Springer, Berlin 1998, , p. 149.
*''Rocks, new-born islands, sea level rise and maritime space''. In: Jochen Abr. Frowein (Hrsg.): ''Verhandeln für den Frieden - Negotiating for peace - Liber Amicorum
Tono Eitel''. Springer, Berlin 2003, , p. 579.
*''Protection of foreign ships against piracy and terrorism at sea''. In: ''International journal of marine and coastal law''. Vol. 18, 2003-3, , p. 363.
References
Further reading
* ''Biographies of the Judges, the Registrar and the Deputy Registrar. Judge José Luis Jesus.'' In: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hrsg.): ''International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Yearbook 1999.'' Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 2001, , p. 86
External links
ITLOS - Judge José Luis JesusBiography at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) website
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1950 births
Living people
People from Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Cape Verdean diplomats
University of Lisbon alumni
Ministers of foreign affairs of Cape Verde
Ambassadors of Cape Verde to Israel
Ambassadors of Cape Verde to Portugal
Ambassadors of Cape Verde to Spain