Tomas H. Heidar has served
as a legal adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland
since 1996. He is responsible for all matters of Public International
Law, in particular the Law of the Sea. Mr. Heidar is also the Chairman
of the National Commission on Continental Shelf Limits.
Mr. Heidar is the Director of the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland,
which is, among other things, co-hosting a Conference on Changes in
the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea, in Seward, Alaska, 20-22
May 2009. He Co-directs and lectures a summer course each year at the
Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy. He also lectures on the Law
of the Sea at the University of Iceland and is a guest lecturer on
the same subject at the University of Akureyri.
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