Notes and Comments / Notes et commentaires Edward W. McWhinney

(1924–2015)

The Editorial Board wishes to record the passing of Professor Edward W. McWhinney, a founding editor of this Yearbook and a frequent contributor to it. He was ninety-one years old. Ted McWhinney was educated at the and at Yale where he received a doctorate. He taught at the and at McGill University, where he was for a period of time the director of the Air and Space Law Institute. The lat- ter part of his career was spent at . Ted gave lectures at many institutions around the world. His work on peaceful co-existence and international law, and Soviet theories of international law was pioneering and his work on federalism and comparative constitutionalism was widely read. He was a constant student of the International Court of Justice, and he wrote about its process, elections to the Court, and judicial activism. He was elected to the Institut de droit international, later becoming its president and hosting a conference of the institute in . In later years, Ted was elected as the member of parliament for , serving for two terms. He was parliamentary secretary for fi sheries and subsequently parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs. Throughout his life, he remained an active observer of the international scene. Ted McWhinney was part of an era in Canada when interna- tional law made great strides, professionally and academically, which laid the basis for the discipline as it is taught and studied today. The Editors

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