| LC control no. | n 95051598 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mensah, Thomas A., 1932-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Mensah, Thomas A., 1932- Mensah, Thomas |
| Associated country | Ghana United States Great Britain South Africa |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1932-05-12 |
| Death date | 2020-04-07 |
| Place of birth | Kumasi (Ghana) |
| Field of activity | Law of the sea Environmental law, International Marine resources conservation Diplomatic and consular service |
| Affiliation | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Yale Law School International Maritime Organization Ghana. High Commission (South Africa) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Judges Arbitrators Ambassadors |
| Found in | Ocean governance for Hawaii, 1995: CIP t.p. (Thomas A. Mensah) data sht. (b. 5-12-32) Existing and emerging state of international environmental law, 1991: t.p. (Thomas Mensah) Guardian WWW site, viewed April 28, 2020 (Thomas Mensah; Thomas Aboagye Mensah, international lawyer, born 12 May 1932, Kumasi; died 7 April 2020; world's leading judge and arbitrator on the settlement of international maritime disputes. In 1996, when the new international tribunal for the law of the sea (ITLOS) began to function in Hamburg, he was elected as one of its 21 judges, and then chosen by colleagues to serve as the tribunal's first president. He spent 19 years at ITLOS, also serving as an arbitrator and, later, as an ad hoc judge at ITLOS and at the international court of justice. In 1959 he obtained a first-class degree in law at the University of London, then headed to Yale Law School in the US, where in 1964 he obtained a doctorate. In 1968 he returned to London to join the secretariat of the International Maritime Organization. He rose to the position of director of legal affairs and external relations, and assistant secretary general, in 1981. His time there coincided with growing environmental concerns, and he played a formative role in giving birth to a new subject area, the protection of the marine environment. Retirement from the IMO in 1990 opened the door to a new life, based at the family home in London. He lectured and wrote, and in 1995 was appointed Ghana's first high commissioner to South Africa) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2005070628 |
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