DODY KUSUMONEGORO OF INDONESIA TO RECEIVE LAW OF SEA FELLOWSHIP
Press Release
SEA/1535
DODY KUSUMONEGORO OF INDONESIA TO RECEIVE LAW OF SEA FELLOWSHIP
19970114 NEW YORK, 10 January (Office of Legal Affairs) -- The eleventh Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellowship on the Law of the Sea will be awarded this year to Dody Kusumonegoro of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia. He intends to utilize the research opportunity provided by the Fellowship in order to assist the Government of Indonesia with the implementation of the Law of the Sea. He also intends to advise the Government on all legal aspects of marine affairs.Mr. Kusumonegoro, who holds an M.A. in International Relations, will pursue his research at one of the participating universities followed by an internship with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations.
The Fellowship, which was established by the General Assembly in 1981, has been awarded annually for the last 11 years. Previous Fellows have represented nearly all regions of the world. The following countries have benefited from the fellowship: Nepal, United Republic of Tanzania, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, the former Yugoslavia, Seychelles, Cameroon and Tonga.
The Amerasinghe Fellowship was established in memory and recognition of the contribution made to the development of the law of the sea by the late Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka, who presided over the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea from its inception in 1973 until his death in 1980.
The determination for the award is that it would further the chosen Fellow's knowledge and specialization, and would be of benefit to his or her country. The Fellows are chosen on the basis of a demonstrated capacity for advanced study in the area of the law of the sea and its implementation, and in marine affairs.
The Fellowship is awarded by the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Hans Corell, on the recommendation of an Advisory Panel, composed of eminent persons in international relations and in the law of the sea and its
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implementation. This year's Panel was composed of the following: the Permanent Representative of Germany, Tono Eitel; the Permanent Representative of Egypt, Nabil Elaraby; the Permanent Representative of Belize, Edward Laing; Professor John Norton Moore, Director, Centre for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia (Chairman); Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka, J.B. Nakkawita; Permanent Representative of Japan, Hisashi Owada; and the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Sir John Weston.
Over the years, the Advisory Panel, which evaluates the candidates, has urged that the facilities provided by the participating universities should be used to the fullest and that every effort should be made to accommodate more than one fellowship in each year. The General Assembly, for its part, has repeatedly requested Member States and interested organizations and individuals to make voluntary contributions towards the financing of the Fellowship.
The Fellowship programme continues to attract a wide-range of high calibre applicants, with nearly 98 submissions from 49 countries. The programme is steadily growing in interest and is prized for the academic opportunity and the practical experience it provides to the Fellows.
The participating universities are: Centre for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia; Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Canada; Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts; Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, University of Utrecht; Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; University of Washington's School of Law, Washington State; William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii; Faculty of Law, University of Southampton, United Kingdom; All Souls College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; and Institute of International Studies, University of Chile, Santiago.
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