WORLD OCEANS DAY WEBINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH
WEBINAR PROGRAMME AND CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES OCEANS & CLIMATE CHALLENGES: Seeking Sustainable Solutions Book Launch 'Frontiers in International Environmental Law: Oceans and Climate Challenges - Essays in Honour of David Freestone'
8 JUNE 2021, 15:00 - 18:00 CEST
Professor David Freestone Executive Secretary Sargasso Sea Commission
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WEBINAR PROGRAMME Tuesday 8 June 2021 Central European Summer Time (CEST), Virtually via Zoom, World Maritime University (WMU) Webinar will be facilitated by Elnaz Barjandi, Project Engagement & Implementation Officer WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU)
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Professor Richard Barnes, Professor in International Law and Research Impact Lead, University of Lincoln Professor Ronán Long, Director, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU)
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Opening of Webinar
Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President of the World Maritime University (WMU) Ambassador Marie Jacobsson, Principal Legal Adviser on International Law, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
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Professor Daniel Bodansky, Professor, Arizona State University The Ocean and Climate Change Law Exploring the Relationships Professor Nilüfer Oral, Director, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore Sea level rise as a pressing concern of the international community and the work of the International Law Commission Professor Robin Churchill, Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee The Implications of the Climate Emergency for the Exploitation of Seabed Minerals Professor Charlotte Streck, Co-Founder and Director of Climate Focus, Honorary Professor at University of Potsdam The Role of Private Actors in Climate and Oceans Law Q&A: 20 minutes facilitated by Dr. Zhen Sun, Research Officer and Professor Clive Schofield, Head of Research, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU)
16:45 - 17:00
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WEBINAR PROGRAMME Tuesday 8 June 2021 Central European Summer Time (CEST), Virtually via Zoom, World Maritime University (WMU) Webinar will be facilitated by Elnaz Barjandi, Project Engagement & Implementation Officer WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU)
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Address by Professor Freestone
Professor David Freestone, Executive Secretary, Sargasso Sea Commission Introduced by Ambassador David A. Balton, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, United States Department of State
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Book Launch and Thanks
Judge Albert J. Hoffmann, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Introduced by Judge David Attard, President of the Chamber for Marine Environment Disputes of ITLOS, and Director and Professor of IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) Thanks: Professor Richard Barnes and Professor Ronán Long
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry President of the World Maritime University (WMU) Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (LL.B, LL.M, Ph.D International Law) joined WMU as President in the summer of 2015. Prior to joining WMU, she served as the Director of the International Labour Standards Department of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Doumbia-Henry began her career at the University of the West Indies, Barbados, as a lecturer in law. She later worked with the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague, The Netherlands and then joined the ILO in 1986 where she served both as a senior lawyer of the Organization and
in several management positions. She was responsible for developing the ILO Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and remained responsible for it until she joined WMU. Since the late 1990s, she led the ILO participation in a number of IMO/ILO interagency collaborations on several issues of common interest to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and ILO, including the Joint IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Groups on Fair Treatment of Seafarers and on Liability and Compensation regarding Claims for Death, Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers.
Professor David Freestone Executive Secretary, Sargasso Sea Commission Professor David Freestone is a Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. He is the Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission, established by the Government of Bermuda pursuant to the 2014 Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea, now signed by ten governments, that is working to protect this unique high seas ecosystem. The project was awarded the International SeaKeepers Prize in 2013. He is also founding Editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (now in its
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36th year). From 1996-2008 he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, retiring as Deputy General Counsel/Senior Adviser. From 2008-2010 he was the Lobingier Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the George Washington University Law School. He was the Ingram Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2009 and has held visiting positions at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2014-18), University of Cape town (2016) and the Oxford University Martin School (2018). In 2008 he was awarded the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Judge Albert Hoffman President, International Tribunal, for the Law of the Sea Judge Hoffmann has been a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2005 and was re-elected in 2014. He served as Vice-President of the Tribunal from 2011-2014 and President of the Seabed Disputes Chamber from 2017-2020. He was elected as
President of the Tribunal in October 2020 for the period 2020-2023. Prior to his election to the Tribunal, Judge Hoffmann served as Legal Adviser in the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Legal Counsellor of the South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Judge David Attard Director and Professor, IMO International, Maritime Law Institute Professor David Attard is the Director of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute. He read law at the University of Malta (LL.D.) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). His book ?The Exclusive Economic Zone in International Law? (Clarendon Press) was awarded the Paul Guggenheim (International Law) Prize, Geneva. He is the General Editor of the 3 Volume IMLI Manual of International Maritime Law published by Oxford University Press. In 1988 on Professor Attard?s advice the Government of Malta requested the United Nations to take action to protect the global climate. His proposal led to the 1992 UN Convention on the Protection of Global Climate. Professor
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Attard was a Visiting Professor of International Law, University of Rome II; a Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford; Fullbright Fellow, Yale Law School; and Visiting Professor, Université de Paris I- Panthéon Sorbonne. Over the years he was awarded the French honour of Chevalier dans l?Ordre National de la Legion D?Honneur; the honour of Official, National Order of Merit by the President of Malta; the Orden de Isabel la Católica by the King of Spain; and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2011 and 2020 he was elected Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Ambassador David A. Balton Principal Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden David A. Balton is a Senior Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Center?s Polar Institute. He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the Department of State?s Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, attaining the rank of Ambassador in 2006. He was responsible for coordinating the development of U.S. foreign policy concerning oceans and fisheries, and overseeing U.S. participation in international organizations dealing with these issues. His portfolio included managing U.S. foreign policy issues relating to the Arctic and Antarctica. Ambassador Balton functioned as the lead U.S. negotiator on a wide range of agreements in the field of oceans and
fisheries and chaired numerous international meetings. During the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2015-2017), he served as Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials. His prior Arctic Council experience included co-chairing the Arctic Council Task Forces that produced the 2011 Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic and the 2013 Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic. He separately chaired negotiations that produced the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean.
Elnaz Barjandi Project Engagement Officer, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute Elnaz Barjandi is Project Engagement and Implementation Officer at the WMUSasakawa Global Ocean Institute. She supports the Institute?s operational delivery and implementation of research programmes/projects as per the WMU Ocean Research Agenda. Elnaz coordinates the Institute?s outreach, conferences and events, and respective donor reporting. Prior to joining WMU, Elnaz worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Denmark, as Operational, Administrative & Finance support at the Office of Information Technology and Management (OIMT). She supported the general operations, and coordinated the ICT and Green Energy service delivery to UNDP Country offices world wide. Elnaz has a BSc. and MSc. in International
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Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and attained knowledge in economics, international development as well as operations and management in organisations, leading people and processes with focus on sustainability. She is an alumni of the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy 2019, as well as recipient of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf?s Foundation?s Value-based Leadership Diploma 2014 and Fulbright?s European Student Leaders Scholarship 2008. Elnaz academic and professional experiences have heightened her knowledge for sustainable development, international diplomacy and strategy, ocean governance, as well as capacity building, organisation and leadership for human empowerment and equality.
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Professor Richard Barnes Professor, University of Lincoln Richard Barnes holds a Chair in International Law at the University of Lincoln. Previously he was Professor of Law at the University of Hull. He authored Property Rights and Natural Resources (Hart, 2009) and co-edited The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Living Instrument (BIICL, 2016) and Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects (Oxford, 2006). Professor Barnes is Current Legal
Developments Editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law. He has advised a range of public and private bodies, including the WWF, the European Parliament, and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and appeared on numerous occasions before Parliamentary committees to provide expert evidence on fisheries law.
Professor Daniel Bodansky Professor, Arizona State University Daniel Bodansky is a Regents? Professor at the Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He served as Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. State Department from 1999-2001 and as attorney-adviser from 1985-1989. Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2010, he taught at the University of Washington School of Law and held the Woodruff Chair of International Law at the University of Georgia. His book, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, received the 2011 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book that year in the field of international
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environmental studies. His latest book, International Climate Change Law, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2017, and received the 2018 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law as the best book in a specialized area of international law published the previous year. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law from 2001-2011, and is a graduate of Harvard (A.B.), Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale (J.D.).
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Professor Robin Churchill Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee Robin Churchill has been emeritus professor of international law at the University of Dundee (United Kingdom) since his retirement in 2016. Before moving to Dundee in 2006, he had held posts at Cardiff University, the University of Tromsö (Norway) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, as well as having been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of Wollongong (Australia). Professor Churchill?s research interests include the law of the sea, international environmental law, EU fisheries law and human rights, on all of which he has published widely. He is the author (with Vaughan Lowe) of The Law of the
Sea (3rd edition, 1999, 4th edition in press) and has also written books on the EU?s Common Fisheries Policy and resource management in the Barents Sea, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on many different aspects of the law of the sea. Professor Churchill has acted as a consultant to various non-governmental organizations, foreign governments, the European Commission and the European Parliament. He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Year Book of International Law and the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law.
Ambassador Marie Jacobsson Principal Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden Ambassador Marie Jacobsson is the Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She was a Member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) from 2007-2016 and appointed Special Rapporteur for the topic, Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts in 2013. Jacobsson has served at the Legal Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1987. Before that, she held a position at the
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Swedish Defence Staff as adviser on security policy matters. In 2016 she was appointed Special Representative for Inclusive Peace Process. Her present assignments include designation as arbitrator under Permanent Court of Arbitration, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and as alternate Arbitrator, Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE.
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Professor Ronán Long Director, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute Professor Ronán Long is the Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden, and holds the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea. He leads a world class team of specialists that are undertaking a diverse range of projects on land-to-ocean leadership, climate change and the Law of the Sea, BBNJ, marine debris and Sargassum in the eastern Caribbean, robotics and AI in the maritime domain, as well as women empowerment for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. He is the author/co-editor of 14 books and over 100 scholarly articles on oceans law and policy. He read for his PhD at the School of Law Trinity College Dublin, he has been a Senior Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the ?Centre for Oceans Law
and Policy' at the University of Virginia. Additionally, Professor Long teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. Prior to his academic career, he was a permanent staff member at the European Commission and undertook over 40 missions on behalf of the European Institutions to the Member States of the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, Central America as well as to African countries. During his previous career in the Irish Naval Service, he won an academic prize at Britannia Royal Naval College and held a number of appointments ashore and afloat, including membership of the Navy?s elite diving unit. As a keen yachtsman, he has represented Ireland at the top competitive level in offshore racing. Ronán is passionate about the law of the sea, conservation and global sustainability, as well as the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Professor Nilüfer Oral Director, Centre for International Law Nilufer Oral is Director of the Centre for International Law ? National University of Singapore and a member of the law faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She is a member of the UN International Law Commission and co-chair of the study group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law (University of California Law Berkeley); Senior Fellow of the National University of Singapore Law School; and Honorary
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Research Fellow at University of Dundee. Dr. Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Board of Editors of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill); and International Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill).
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Professor Clive Schofield Head of Research. WMU-Saskawa Global Ocean Institute Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the World Maritime University-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute in Malmö, Sweden, a Visiting Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at the Law School of the University of California Berkeley and teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. His research interests relate to international boundaries and particularly maritime boundary
delimitation and marine jurisdictional issues on which he has published over 200 scholarly publications. Clive is an International Hydrographic Office (IHO)-nominated Observer on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS) and is a member of the International Law Association?s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. He has also been actively involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes by providing advice to governments engaged in boundary negotiations and in dispute settlement.
Professor Charlotte Streck Honorary Professor, University of Potsdam Prof. Dr. Charlotte Streck is director of Climate Focus, an international advisory company on climate policy with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bogota, Rotterdam and Washington DC, and honorary professor at the University of Potsdam. Before founding Climate Focus in 2004, Charlotte worked for five years as Senior Counsel with The World Bank in Washington, DC. Charlotte has been actively involved in climate change law and policy throughout her career and is a renowned expert on the causes of land conversation and strategies to address deforestation, agricultural supply
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chains, land governance, and forest policies. Charlotte is a former lead counsel for climate change with the Center for International Sustainable Development Law with McGill University. She is an associate editor of the Climate Policy Journal, a former Chair of the Board of the Climate Strategies Policy research network, and a lecturer at Potsdam University, Bayreuth University (both Germany) and Bar-Ilan University (Israeil). She has edited four books and published more than 100 articles, commentaries and reports.
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CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Zhen Sun Research Officer, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute Dr. Zhen Sun is a Research Officer at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute,World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Her main research interests include the law of the sea, international regulation of shipping, maritime security, and the protection of the marine environment. Prior to joining WMU, Dr. Sun was a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore between 2013 and 2018. She was a member of the CIL Ocean Law and Policy team, in which she worked on a wide range of subjects in the law of the sea. Dr. Sun was the researcher-incharge for a number of research projects and capacity building activities at CIL, including projects
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funded by the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. She has contributed jurisdictional issues on which he has published over 200 scholarly publications. Dr. Sun received a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Hainan University and an LLM in International Law from China University of Political Science and Law in China. She received an LLM in Public International Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Sun is also the co-principal investigator of the Programme on Empowering Women for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
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