Education and professional career:
D.J. Devine BA LLB NUI LLB Unisa LLD Cape Town; Solicitor
of the Supreme Court in Ireland; Advocate of the High Court
of Kenya. Emeritus Professor Devine practised as a solicitor
in Ireland before being appointed Deputy Registrar of the
Supreme Court of Kenya in 1960. He joined the Department of
Roman and Comparative Law as a lecturer in 1963. In 1973 he
moved to Brussels as Director in the Directorate General,
Internal Market (from 1977 Directorate General, Internal Market
and Industrial Affairs), Commission of the European Communities.
He returned to Cape Town in 1984 as Director of the Institute
of Marine and Environmental Law. His special interests include
the Law of the Sea, European Union Law and Public International
Law and he has more than 100 publications in these and other
areas.
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Period at INTR:
The Centre for International Law was the Host Institution
for the University Foreign Francqui Chair 2001-2002. "Coastal
State Jurisdiction Relating to Marine Pollution" was
the theme under which the Centre for International Law of
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel served as Host-Institution
for this Chair. The latter was organized in cooperation with
the Maritime Institute of the Ghent University. Prof. em.
Dermott Devine of the University of Cape Town, South Africa,
holder of this Chair, was during 6 months in close contact
with Belgian specialists in this area, creating that way a
class of excellence. He also presented a number of lectures
(December 3, 2001 to May 17, 2002).
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Funding
This project, amounting to about 2 million BEF (50.000 EURO),
was terminated in May 2002 with an international workshop
at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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Present contact address
Institute of Marine Law
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch 7700
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 6503074
Fax: +27 (21) 6898546
E-mail: LAWMAR@law.uct.ac.za
URL: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/pbl/imel/intro.htm
