Helmut Türk (born 24 April 1941 in

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) is an Austrian jurist and a judge at the

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. He earned a doctorate of law at the

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in 1963 and attended the

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1963-1964.

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, ''The College of Europe. Fifty years of service to Europe'', College of Europe, Bruges, 1999. In 1965, he joined the Austrian foreign service. From 1993 to 1999, he was Ambassador to the

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and

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. He was chef de cabinet at the Präsidentschaftskanzlei from 1999 to 2004, and Ambassador to the

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and the

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from 2005 to 2006. On 1 October 2005, he was appointed as a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and was the tribunal's vice president from 2008 to 2011.

Works

*''Österreich im Spannungsfeld von Neutralität und kollektiver Sicherheit''. Verlag Österreich, Wien 1997, . *''Die Wende 1989/90 und die Obsoleterklärung einiger Artikel des Staatsvertrags''. In:

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, Gerald Stourzh, Wolfgang Mueller (Hrsg.): ''Der Österreichische Staatsvertrag 1955 – Internationale Strategie, rechtliche Relevanz, nationale Identität''. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2005, , (''Archiv für österreichische Geschichte'' 140), S. 821. *''Die Militärischen und Luftfahrt-Bestimmungen des Österreichischen Staatsvertrags und deren Obsoleszenz''. In: Waldemar Hummer (Hrsg.): ''Staatsvertrag und immerwährende Neutralität Österreichs. Eine juristische Analyse''. Verlag Österreich, Wien 2007, , S. 121. *''The Contribution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to International Law''. In: ''Penn State International Law Review''. 26, Nr. 2, Fall 2007, , S. 289. *''The Landlocked States and the Law of the Sea''. In: ''Revue belge de droit international''. 40, Nr. 1, 2007, , S. 91-112. *''Combating Terrorism at Sea – the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation''. In: ''University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review''. 15, Special Issue Spring 2008, , S. 337-368.

Lectures

''The Landlocked States and the Law of the Sea''
in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Tuerk.html ''The Resurgence of Piracy: A Phenomenon of Modern Times''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

References

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