LIESBETH LIJNZAAD (NETHERLANDS), PRESIDENT OF SEABED ASSEMBLY FOR 2000

Press Release
SEA/1657

LIESBETH LIJNZAAD (NETHERLANDS), PRESIDENT OF SEABED ASSEMBLY FOR 2000

(Received from International Seabed Authority.)

KINGSTON, 20 March -- Mrs. Liesbeth Lijnzaad (Netherlands), who was today elected President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority at its sixth (2000) session, is Deputy Head of the International Law Division of her country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she has worked since 1994. She is primarily involved with issues concerning the law of the sea and international humanitarian law. She is the head of her country’s delegation to the Authority.

Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1960, Mrs. Lijnzaad studied history and law at the University of Amsterdam. She holds masters’ degrees in international law (1985) and in Netherlands law (1987). In 1994, she received a doctorate on a dissertation published that year under the title Reservations to UN Human Rights Treaties: Ratify and Ruin?. From 1986 to 1994, she lectured in international law at the University of Maastricht.

Mrs. Lijnzaad has published articles on the sources of international law, international humanitarian law and human rights law. Her publications also include books on State reservations to treaties and on the 1979 United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Mrs. Lijnzaad is married.

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