Speaker Biographies—Seward COLP Conference, May 2009
DA V I D A . B A L T ON
Deputy Assistant Secretary
David A. Balton is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the Bureau of
Oceans, Environment and Science, U.S. Department of State. In March 2005, President Bush,
with the consent of the Senate, accorded to Mr. Balton the rank of Ambassador during his tenure.
Ambassador Balton previously served for 6 years as Director of the Office of Marine
Conservation in the Department of State. In that capacity, he was responsible for coordinating
the development of U.S. foreign policy concerning living marine resources and overseeing U.S.
participation in international organizations dealing with the conservation and management of
these resources.
Ambassador Balton also worked for 12 years in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the
Department of State. His international law practice covered such areas as the law of the sea,
human rights and international claims. Ambassador Balton negotiated numerous treaties and
other international agreements on fisheries, marine mammals and other matters pertaining to the
marine environment.
Ambassador Balton received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1981 and his J.D. from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1985. He has also appeared as a soloist with the National
Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. (juggling oranges).
NIGEL BANKES is a Professor of Law at the University of Calgary where he has taught since
1984 and where he now holds the chair in natural resources law. He spent the 1999-2000
academic year with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as Professor
in Residence. His principal research interests are in the areas of indigenous peoples law, water
law, oil and gas law and international environmental law. He is a former chair of the Canadian
Arctic Resources Committee a Canadian non-governmental organization and he has acted as an
adviser to various Inuit organizations on land claim issues and constitutional reform. He was the
lead author of the “Legal Systems” chapter of the Arctic Council’s Arctic Human Development
Report (2004). His most recent publication is an edited volume with co-editors Timo Koivurova
and Carina Keskitalo and entitled Climate Governance in the Arctic, Springer, (2009).
Bankes’ current research focuses on the domestic and international legal issues associated with
carbon capture and storage (CCS), and legal techniques for achieving ecological instream flows.
LAWSON W. BRIGHAM
Lawson Brigham is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North in Anchorage and an
Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge in the United
Kingdom. From 2005-2009 he was chair and co-lead for the Arctic Council’s Arctic Marine
Shipping Assessment.
Dr. Brigham was a career U.S. Coast Guard officer serving from 1970-95 and retiring with the
rank of Captain. He served at sea in command of four Coast Guard cutters including a patrol
boat, Great Lakes icebreaker, medium endurance enforcement cutter in the Atlantic, and the
polar icebreaker Polar Sea. He has participated in many Arctic and Antarctic expeditions
including voyages aboard five different icebreakers. While in command of Polar Sea 1993-95,
the ship completed two scientific voyages to the Arctic and two, 6-month deployments to the
Antarctic. During July and August 1994 Polar Sea crossed the Arctic Ocean with the Canadian
Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent on the ‘Arctic Ocean Section 1994 Expedition’ and
reached the North Pole on 22 August. Dr. Brigham has been a research fellow at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution and a faculty member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Naval
Postgraduate School in the Office of Naval Research Arctic Chair. He also served as Chief of
Strategic Planning at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC. He was Deputy Executive
Director and Alaska Office Director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission in Arlington, Virginia
and Anchorage, Alaska 2001-2008. Dr. Brigham is a 1970 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard
Academy (BS) and holds graduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MS) and the
University of Cambridge (MPhil and PhD); he is also a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval
War College. His research and publications have focused on the Russian maritime Arctic, Arctic
climate change and sea ice, ice navigation, and Arctic & Antarctic geopolitics.
R E A R A DM I R A L A R T H UR E . B R OOK S
Commander
th
Coast Guard 17 District
Rear Admiral Brooks directs Coast Guard operations including search and rescue, maritime safety,
environmental protection, fisheries law enforcement and military readiness in Alaska and the North
Pacific. Units and personnel under his command patrol over 3.8 million square miles of ocean and 33,000
miles of coastline, including some of the most treacherous waters in the world. More than 950,000 square
miles off the Alaskan coast are monitored to enforce the US 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. An even
larger area of the North Pacific is patrolled to stop illegal, large scale, high seas drift netting. Maritime
safety and environmental protection are priority missions. The Port of Valdez is the trans-shipment point
for 17 percent of the oil that America produces every day. Preventing spills and accidents is a major task.
Alaska is also the world's second most popular cruise destination, bringing over 700,000 passengers to its
waters every year. Safety of these ships and passengers and protection of these pristine waters is a
critical mission.
Rear Admiral Brooks was commissioned as an Ensign upon graduation from the US Coast Guard
Academy in 1974. His first duty assignment was aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC)
Dependable. Other afloat tours included Commanding Officer, USCGC Point Harris; Executive Officer,
USCGC Confidence; and Commanding Officer, USCGC Seneca. Ashore tours included the Fifth Coast
guard District Operations Center; Assistant Staff Legal Officer, Eleventh Coast Guard District; Head,
Department of Professional Development; Staff Legal Officer; and Commandant of Cadets, Coast Guard
Academy; Commander, Coast Guard Greater Antilles Section; Chief of Staff, Coast Guard Atlantic Area;
and Deputy Director for Operations, U.S. Northern Command. In addition to his Bachelor of Science
from the US Coast Guard Academy, Brooks holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Marshall-Wythe School
of Law, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the Coast Guard Fellow in the
Department of State's 39th Senior Seminar, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Arlington, Virginia,
and is a graduate of the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive National
and International Security Program.
DA V I D D. C A R ON
C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of International Law
School of Law, Boalt Hall
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
(1) (510) 642-7249; facsimile, (1) (510) 643-2673; email, [email protected]
Present Positions
Faculty of Law, University of California at Berkeley, since 1987.
Member, Executive Committee, Institute of International Studies.
Member, Executive Committee, Energy & Resources Group.
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Berkeley Journal of International Law
Member, Advisory Committee, Peace & Conflict Studies.
Member, Advisory Committee, Human Rights Center.
Member, Advisory Committee, US Foreign Policy Center
Chair, Advisory Council, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, since 2005.
Vice President, American Society of International Law, since 2005.
Member, U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Public International Law, since 1993.
Co-Director, Law of the Sea Institute, since 2002.
President, ISCID Tribunal in the Aguas del Tunari v. Bolivia dispute, since 2001.
Member, NAFTA Chapter 11 Panel in the Glamis Gold v. United States of America dispute, since 2004.
Education
Dr. jur. and Doctorandus (International Law), Leiden University.
Diploma, Hague Academy of International Law.
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Member, Order of the Coif. CoRecipient, Thelen-Marrin Writing Prize. Editor-in-Chief, Ecology Law Quarterly.
Fulbright Scholar & M.Sc., University of Wales Center for Marine Law and Policy, Cardiff, Wales,
U.K.
B.S. with High Honors, U. S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut. Emphases in
Physics and Political Science. Brigade Commander, Corps of Cadets.
Experience
American Society of International Law and American Journal of International Law
Vice President, American Society of International Law, since 2005.
Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law, 1990 to 2005.
Editor, International Decisions Section of American Journal of International Law, 2003 to 2005.
Member, Panel on State Responsibility, American Society of International Law, since 1988.
American Association of Law Schools
Chair, Section on International Law, 1995-1996
Hague Academy of International Law
Director of Research (English-speaking), Centre for Research, Fall 1995.
Director of Studies (English-speaking), Public International Law Session, Summer 1987.
Recipient, Diploma in Public International Law, Summer 1985.
Institute for Transnational Arbitration, a Division of the Center for American and
International Law
Chair, Advisory Council, 2005-2008
International Law Association
Member, International Committee on Diplomatic Protection.
Member, International Study Group on State Responsibility.
International Courts and Tribunals – Practice
Listed as one of the top ten international arbitrators in the United States, Chambers USA (2005).
Counsel for Ethiopia before the Eritrea - Ethiopia Claims Commission, The Hague, 2004-2005.
Commissioner, Precedent Panel, United Nations Compensation Commission, for claims arising out
of the 1991 Gulf War, Geneva, 1996 to 2003.
Member ( U.S. appointee), Property Claims Commission under the German Forced Labor
Settlement Agreement, Geneva, 2000-2001.
Expert Opinion provided in The Loewen Group Inc. v. The United States of America as part of
Respondent’s submission on preliminary issues, 2000.
Counsel, Defender of the Fund, Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal, 1994 -1996.
Attorney with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, with practice in transnational litigation,
and ICC and JCAA international arbitration, 1986-1987.
Legal Assistant successively to Judges Charles N. Brower and Richard M. Mosk, The Iran-United
States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, 1983-1986.
International Courts and Tribunals – Organizations
Member and Founding Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators, since 2000.
Member and Immediate Past President, Northern California Int’l Arbitration Club, since 2003.
Member, Board of Directors, African Inst. Arb., Mediation, Conciliation & Research, since 2003.
Member, Editorial Board, Law & Practice of International Courts , since 2001.
Member, Advisory Council, Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, since 1995.
Member, Steering Committee, Mass Claims Processes, Permanent Court of Arbitration, since 2000.
Member, Panel of Commercial Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association, since 1988.
Member, ICC Arbitration Committee, United States Comm. for International Business, since 1995.
Member, Academic Council, Foundation for Int’l Commercial Arbitration and ADR, since 2002.
Member, Advisory Board, International Arbitration Annual (Juris Publishing), since 2000.
Research Posts, Visiting Faculty Positions and Fellowships
Visiting Professor, University of San Francisco Program, Udayana University, Bali, Summer 1997.
Visiting Professor, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, 1996.
Katherine C. Ryan Distinguished Visiting Professor, St. Mary's University Institute on World Legal
Problems, Innsbruck, Austria, Summer 1995.
Visiting Professor of International Law, Cornell University, Fall 1990.
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law,
Heidelberg, 1985-1986.
Research and Teaching Assistant to Professor Stefan A. Riesenfeld, School of Law, University of
California at Berkeley, 1982-1983
Environmental Conservation Fellow, National Wildlife Federation, 1980-1981.
University of California
Member, University of California (System-Wide) Marine Council, 1999 to 2002
United States Coast Guard
Assistant Chief, Marine Environmental Protection and Port Security, Northern California, 19761979.
Navigator and Salvage Diving Officer, USCGC POLAR STAR, 1974-1976
Honors
Recipient, the 2000 Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award for contribution to international law.
Recipient, the 1991 Francis Deák Prize for outstanding scholarship by a younger scholar.
Other Positions and Affiliations
Member, California State Bar, since 1983.
Member, Steering Committee, Ocean Governance Study Group, since 1990.
Member, Board of Directors, International Bill of Rights Project, since 2000.
Third Mate, U.S. Merchant Marine, and Ship Salvage Diving Officer, U.S. Navy.
Member, Advisory Board, Legal Services Network International Law and Trade Electronic Journal.
ALDO CHIRCOP
Dr. Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law at Dalhousie Law School. He is cross appointed as faculty
at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Marine Affairs Programme, Faculty of
Management. He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. Dr. Chircop is
a specialist in international and comparative maritime law, marine and environmental law and
policy, and integrated coastal and ocean management. He is based at the Marine &
Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie Law School where he teaches Maritime Law &
Practice and Law of Marine Environmental Protection.
A former Commonwealth Fellow, his past work experience has included directorships of the
Marine Affairs Programme and Marine Environmental Law Programme at Dalhousie, the
International Ocean Institute and the Mediterranean Institute in Malta, and a brief term with
UNIDO in Vienna, Austria. While in Malta, Dr. Chircop was also a member of that country's
delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the Law of the Sea. Between 2003-2005 Dr.
Chircop held the Chair in Marine Environment Protection at the IMO’s World Maritime
University, Malmö, Sweden.
Dr. Chircop’s continuing professional affiliations include the Canadian Bar Association, Nova
Scotia Barristers Society, Canadian Maritime Law Association, Canadian Association of Law
Teachers, Canadian Transportation Research Forum, and Coastal Zone Canada Association.
Dr. Chircop has published widely in international, marine and environmental law, including on
Arctic shipping. He is co-author of Maritime Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2003; with Edgar Gold
and Hugh Kindred), which was recipient of the Walter Owen Book Prize in Canadian law in
2005. He is also co-editor of volumes 13-23 of the Ocean Yearbook (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press; New York: Transnational; Leiden: Nijhoff) with Moira McConnell and Scott
Coffen-Smout, and co-editor (with Olof Linden) and lead author of Places of Refuge for Ships
Emerging Environmental Concerns of a Maritime Custom (Leiden: Nijhoff, 2005). He codirected a project on the Governance of Arctic Shipping with David VanderZwaag for the Arctic
Marine Shipping Assessment project of the Arctic Council. In 2001 Dr. Chircop received the
Distinguished Service Award by Dalhousie’s Faculty of Graduate Studies and in 2008 the
Dalhousie Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Law.
R OB I N C H UR C H I L L is professor of international law at the University of Dundee, United
Kingdom. Prior to his move to Dundee in 2006, he was for many years a member of staff at
Cardiff Law School, also in the United Kingdom. His research interests include the international
law of the sea, international environmental law, EU fisheries law and international human rights,
on the first three of which he has written widely. He has long had a particular interest in Svalbard
(Spitsbergen), stimulated in part by a year he spent as a lecturer at the University of Tromsø in
northern Norway during the 1980s and has written a number of articles about legal issues
concerning Svalbard.
Professor of International Law,
School of Law,
University of Dundee,
Scrymgeour Building, Park Place,
Dundee DD1 4HN
JORDAN DIAMOND
Law Fellow at Environmental Law Institute
Current
• Law Fellow at Environmental Law Institute
Past
• Law Clerk at Earthjustice
• Summer Associate at WilmerHale
• Law Clerk at Environmental Defense Fund
Education
• University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
• Wesleyan University
MARGARET F. HAYES
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF OCEAN AND POLAR AFFAIRS (ret.)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Margaret Frailey Hayes is the recently retired Director of the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs
in the Oceans, Environment and Science Bureau of the United States Department of State. Her
responsibilities encompassed a wide array of maritime-related topics, from navigation, marine
pollution, and maritime security to the conservation and management of living resources; from
Antarctic and Arctic affairs to marine science; from underwater cultural heritage to regional
seas programs. Her focus recently has been on U.S. accession to the United Nations Law of the
Sea Convention, which underpins virtually all of the oceans and fisheries related work of the
OES Bureau. She is also chair of an interagency Task Force to delimit the U.S. Extended
Continental Shelf (beyond 200 nm).
Before coming to the State Department in 2001, Ms. Hayes served for almost 25 years in the
General Counsel’s Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As the
Assistant General Counsel for Fisheries from 1988 to 2001, she supervised a large office that
provided legal advice and litigation support to the National Marine Fisheries Service. During
that time, she served on U.S. delegations for negotiations of the UN Fish Stocks Agreement and
the FAO Compliance Agreement, and several multilateral fisheries agreements. Before that,
she was the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement, overseeing the prosecution of
administrative cases involving violations of marine resource statutes. In 1995, she received an
Achievement Award from the Women’s Aquatic Network.
During the early 1970s Ms. Hayes clerked at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, as
the Court’s first motions clerk and as law clerk to the Honorable Robert A. Sprecher. Ms. Hayes
is a cum laude graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Law and an honors graduate of
the University of Kansas. She is married and has three children (an elementary school teacher,
a chef, and a doctor).
Contact information: [email protected]
T OM A S H . H E I DA R
Legal Adviser of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and Director of the Law of the Sea
Institute of Iceland; Chairman of the National Commission on Continental Shelf Limits; Lecturer
on Public International Law, in particular the Law of the Sea, at the Faculty of Law, University
of Iceland, and the Faculty of Law, Reykjavik University; Co-director and Lecturer of the
Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy.
ROB HUEBERT
Rob Huebert, Ph.d., is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Calgary. He is also the associate director of the Centre for Military and Strategic
Studies. He is currently a senior research fellow of the Canadian International Council and a
fellow with Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. Dr. Huebert has also taught at
Memorial University, Dalhousie University, and the University of Manitoba. His area of research
interests include: international relations, strategic studies, the Law of the Sea, maritime affairs,
Canadian foreign and defence policy, and circumpolar relations. He publishes on the issue of
Canadian Arctic Security, Maritime Security, and Canadian Defence. His work has appeared in
International Journal; Canadian Foreign Policy; Isuma: Canadian Journal of Policy Research and
Canadian Military Journal.. He was also a co-author of the Report To Secure a Nation: Canadian
Defence and Security into the 21st Century; and co-editor of Commercial Satellite Imagery and
United Nations Peacekeeping and Breaking Ice: Canadian Integrated Ocean Management in the
Canadian North. He also comments on Canadian security and Arctic issues in both the Canadian
and international media.
JENNIFER JEFFERS
Jennifer Jeffers is pursuing dual law and master’s degrees at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law and Environmental Science, Policy and Management program in the College of Natural
Resources. Her legal studies concentrate on environmental and ocean law, and her research focuses on
the intersection of law, science and policy. Jennifer’s thesis addresses the potential impacts of climate
change on regional fisheries stocks and governance regimes in the Arctic.
Prior to attending graduate school, Jennifer served as the Director of Regional Marine Strategies for
Conservation International in Washington, D.C., where she worked closely with field staff in eleven
countries to develop site-specific and large-scale marine conservation planning and implementation
programs. While at UC Berkeley, Jennifer worked a legal intern in the Environment, Land & Natural
Resources Sections of the California Attorney General’s Office, and as a summer associate in the Land
Use and Environmental Law practice group at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. In addition, she is a
Graduate Student Instructor for UC Berkeley’s international environmental politics course.
Jennifer received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she majored
in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology.
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law and College of Natural Resources
[email protected]
PAUL L. KELLY
Paul L. Kelly is a Consultant to the oil and gas industry and retired Senior Vice President of
Rowan Companies, Inc., with responsibility for special projects and government and industry
affairs. Rowan is a major provider of international and domestic offshore contract drilling and
through its subsidiary, LeTourneau Services, Inc., manufactures mobile offshore jack-up drilling
rigs and oilfield equipment.
Mr. Kelly represented the oil service/supply industry on the U.S. Secretary of Interior’s Outer
Continental Shelf Policy Committee during the past four administrations, serving as chairman of
the Committee from 1994 to 1996, and is a director of the International Association of Drilling
Contractors and the National Ocean Industries Association.
From 1985 to 1987 Mr. Kelly served as managing director of British American Offshore Ltd.,
London, Rowan’s main contracting entity in the North Sea. He has written widely on the subject
of energy policy and is a member of the Editorial Board of World Oil. He has appeared on behalf
of industry in numerous Congressional and federal agency hearings dealing with offshore oil
and gas issues. Most recently he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policy, the first commission of its kind in over thirty years tasked with
examining the major issues affecting America’s coasts and oceans.
Mr. Kelly has appeared in several fora discussing U.S. adherence to the 1982 United Nations
Law of the Sea Convention. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Oceans Law
and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law and a member of the Oceanography
Development Council at Texas A&M University. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale
University.
[email protected]
J A M E S K R A SK A
Commander Kraska is a professor of international law in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at
the U.S. Naval War College and a guest investigator at the Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. A Navy judge advocate, Commander Kraska teaches international
law, foreign relations law, oceans law and policy and the law of armed conflict. Past assignments
include two tours in Japan and three in the Pentagon, including as Chief, International
Negotiations Division for the Director of Strategic Plans & Policy in the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
as the Oceans Policy Adviser in the same office. Commander Kraska has served as an
international law attorney for numerous flag and general officers, including the Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations, the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Commander of Amphibious Group
One (forward deployed to Okinawa, Japan), and Director, U.S. Pacific Command Joint
Interagency Task Force West, which conducts counterdrug operations and intelligence activities.
Commander Kraska is a designated Foreign Area Officer for East Asia. He earned a master of
arts in Foreign Affairs from the School of Economics & Politics, Claremont Graduate School, a
professional doctorate in law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and a master of laws
at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he is completing a research doctorate in law.
An elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy,
Commander Kraska serves as the Chair of the Use of Force Committee for the American Branch
of the International Law Association. His numerous articles have appeared in journals such as
Yale Journal of International Law, World Policy Journal, Ocean Development and International
Law, Journal of Marine & Coastal Law, Current History, and Columbia Journal of International
Affairs, and his most recent work is forthcoming in Stanford Journal of International Law.
SUZANNE LALONDE is an associate professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of
the University of Montreal and an ArcticNet researcher. She holds a PhD in public international
law from the University of Cambridge, King’s College (1997). From 2004-2008, Professor
Lalonde was involved in a multidisciplinary ArcticNet research project which studied the legal
and political implications of a thawing and increasingly navigable Northwest Passage. She is
currently part of team of legal experts, funded by ArcticNet, which is studying Canada’s claim to
jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic Ocean seabed. Her recent publications on the Arctic include
“Donat Pharand: The Arctic Scholar” for the Canadian Yearbook of International Law and “La
frontière maritime dans l’archipel arctique: Garde-fou essentiel” for the French Yearbook of
International Law. She also participated in the award-winning book Perdre le Nord? published
by Boréal/Névé Éditions in the Fall of 2007.
[email protected]
STEPHEN A. MACKO is a Professor of Isotope and Organic Geochemistry in the Department
of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from the
University of Texas in Chemistry. His areas of interest include marine organic geochemistry,
deep ocean communities, meteorites and the Origins of Life as well as K-12 education and
outreach. He has authored over 250 refereed research papers and books; he was elected a Fellow
of the Geochemical Society and of the European Association of Geochemistry in 2003 and is the
Corresponding Education Editor for EOS. He received the All University Teaching Award at
UVA and was a finalist for the State of Virginia Faculty of the Year award in 2007. He presently
also holds the position of Program Officer for Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry
at the US National Science Foundation.
Recent projects of his include studies on chemosynthesis at cold seep sites and hot vents
using the Johnson Sea Link and Alvin submersibles for sample acquisition; interpretation of
ancient human diet; tracking fires and aerosols from sub-Saharan Africa; establishing the
geochemical conditions of the Earth prior to the origins of life and pioneering the broadcast of
live interactive classes between Africa and the USA.
At the University of Virginia, he teaches Introduction to Oceanography, Introduction to
Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Organic Geochemistry and the Environmental Sciences
Undergraduate Seminar.
He has been a scientist or chief scientist on numerous oceanographic expeditions,
including dives to depths of over 500m in the submersible Johnson Sea Link. He was a research
scientist on the high Arctic Canadian Ice Island during five different years. He has been featured
on Discovery and National Geographic television channel programs (The Ultimate Guide to
Mummies, The Moche Murder Mystery, The Mummy Road Show) as well as a number of public
and commercial radio and television interviews, including National Public Radio, about his
research. His laboratory is featured in King Corn, a documentary on the influence of corn on the
lives of North Americans, which opened at Independent theaters in New York and Washington
in October, 2007 and appeared on PBS in April, 2008.
R ON M A C NA B trained as a marine geophysicist and enjoyed a long career with the
Geological Survey of Canada, where among other things he performed initial assessments
concerning Canada’s Article 76 prospects. Since his retirement, he has been involved in
international activities related to ocean mapping and to the delimitation of the outer continental
shelf. He is a past member and chairman of the IAG/IHO/IOC Advisory Board on the Law of
the Sea (ABLOS), and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Polar
Commission.
L A R R Y M A Y E R is a Professor and the Director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean
Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He graduated magna cum laude with an Honors
degree in Geology from the University of Rhode Island in 1973 and received a Ph.D. from the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Geophysics in 1979. At Scripps he worked with
the Marine Physical Laboratory's Deep-Tow Geophysical package, applying this sophisticated
acoustic sensor to problems of deep sea mapping and the history of climate. After being selected
as an astronaut candidate finalist for NASA's first class of mission specialists, Larry went on to a
Post-Doc at the School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island where he worked on
the early development of the Chirp Sonar and problems of deep-sea sediment transport and
paleoceanography. In 1982, he became an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Oceanography at
Dalhousie University and in 1991 moved to the University of New Brunswick to take up the
NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Mapping. In 2000 Larry became the founding
director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and
the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center. Larry has participated in more
than 70 cruises (over 50 months at sea!) during the last 20 years, and has been chief or co-chief
scientist of numerous expeditions including two legs of the Ocean Drilling Program and four
mapping expeditions in the ice covered regions of the high Arctic. He has served on, or chaired,
far too many international panels and committees and has the requisite large number of
publications on a variety of topics in marine geology and geophysics. He is the recipient of the
Keen Medal for Marine Geology and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm.
He was a member of the President’s Panel on Ocean Exploration, National Science Foundation’s
Advisory Committee for the Geosciences, and chaired a National Academy of Science
Committee on national needs for coastal mapping and charting. He is currently co-chair of the
NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Advisory Working Group, a member of the National Science
Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative Program Advisory Committee, and the State Dept’s
Extended Continental Shelf Task Force. Larry's present research deals with sonar imaging and
remote characterization of the seafloor as well as advanced applications of 3-D visualization to
ocean mapping problems and applications of mapping to Law of the Sea issues, particularly in
the Arctic.
T E D L . M C DOR M A N ([email protected]), B.A. (Toronto) 1976, LL.B. (Dalhousie)
1979, LL.M. (cum laude) (Dalhousie) 1982, called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1980.
Professor McDorman is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria in
Victoria, British Columbia Canada. Before joining the University of Victoria in 1985, Professor
McDorman was at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Dalhousie Oceans
Studies Programme (DOSP). He has been a visiting professor at institutions in Thailand,
Sweden, the Netherlands and Canada and has over 100 publications in the areas of ocean law and
policy, international trade law and comparative constitutional law.
Since 2000, he has been the editor-in-chief of Ocean Development and International Law: The
Journal of Marine Affairs. He has undertaken projects for the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, including legislative drafting, conducting of workshops and
report writing on fisheries and fisheries trade, and written reports for the governments of Canada,
Quebec and British Columbia.
During 2002-2004, Professor McDorman was the “Academic-in- Residence” with the Bureau of
Legal Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa. In the
Spring of 2007, Professor McDorman was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
In 2009 his book Salt Water Neighbors: International Ocean Law Relations between the United
States and Canada, which contains an extensive discussion of Arctic matters, was published by
Oxford University Press, New York. Also published in 2009 was his co-edited book, The Future
of Ocean Regime-Building: Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. Johnston (Leiden: Martinus
Nijhoff).
C OM M A NDE R J A M E S M C M A H ON, USCG, is the Staff Judge Advocate for the
Seventeenth Coast Guard District. He served as a professor of international law at the U.S.
Naval War College from June 2006 to June 2008. Commander McMahon holds a B.S. from the
U. S. Coast Guard Academy, a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, and a J.D.
from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to attending law school, Commander McMahon served
as Commanding Officer, USCGC Thunder Bay (WTGB 108), an icebreaking tug homeported in
Rockland, Maine.
B A R B A R A M OOR E
For more than 10 years, Barbara Moore served as Director of NOAA’s Undersea Research
Program (NURP). This program works largely through external academic institutions to support
research placing scientists under the sea to carry out their projects in support of NOAA’s many
ocean related missions. Prior to her NURP position, she held a number of leadership and policy
level positions across the agency. Among them were Director of the International Activities
Staff for the research arm of NOAA, and Special Assistant to the Administrator. Outside NOAA
she worked in the U.S. Senate on the staff of Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, and in the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as a senior policy analyst.
Calling upon this broad experience, she is currently detailed from NOAA to the Department of
State to assist with initiating and organizing the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project. The
objective of this project is to establish the limits of the continental shelf of the United States
consistent with international law. A multiagency effort in which NOAA is a major participant,
this Project is likely to result in significant extension of U.S. jurisdiction over resources of the
seafloor beyond the 200 mile economic zone. Ms. Moore is supporting the work of the thirteen
agency Extended Continental Shelf Task Force. Current tasks include development of the ECS
Project Plan that will outline the requirements, resources and planning required for the United
States to complete the task of delimiting its extended continental shelf boundary, and planning
field operations to collect data and information necessary to support the delimitation process.
Coordinator
J OH N NOR T ON M OOR E
John Norton Moore is the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Virginia
School of Law. He also directs the University’s Center for Oceans Law and Policy (“Oceans
Center”), and the Center for National Security Law, and was the Director of the Graduate Law
Program at Virginia for more than twenty years. He is the author or editor of over 25 books and
over 165 scholarly articles.
Professor Moore is an internationally recognized expert on oceans issues. He has published
numerous articles on oceans policy and edited with Richard B. Lillich the two-volume Readings
in International Law from the Naval War College Review (1983); he also edited the Oceans
Center’s five-volume collection of International and United States Documents on Oceans Law
and Policy (1986). Under the direction of Professor Moore, the Oceans Center has undertaken
and nearly completed a comprehensive, seven-volume series entitled United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary, providing a comprehensive analysis of the articles
of the Convention.
In addition to his scholarly career, Professor Moore has a distinguished record of public service.
He served as Chairman of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of
the Sea, and, among seven presidential appointments, he served as Ambassador and Deputy
Special Representative of the President to the Law of the Sea Conference (1973-76) and as a
Member of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (1984-85). From
1981-84, Professor Moore served as Special Counsel for the United States for the Gulf of Maine
case before the International Court of Justice. He chaired the United Nations Advisory Panel of
the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea from 1991-93,
1995-97, and again in 1999-2002. Professor Moore has served as Chairman of the Marine
Education and Policy Division of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) since 1979, was an
MTS Fellow in 1983, and received the MTS-sponsored “Compass Distinguished Achievement
Award” for 1994. As Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, Moore is also a cofounder with the Directors of the Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and the Netherlands
Institute for the Law of the Sea, of the international Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy,
which held its first seven sessions in Rhodes, Greece, during the summers of 1996-2002. He
served as an informal delegation member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General
Assembly for the 20th anniversary of the opening for signature of the 1982 United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea (December 2002). On this occasion, he was named by the
United Nations Secretariat as one of five living American “personalities” who contributed to the
success of the Conference. He was a Consultant to Iceland and Ireland in setting up the Law of
the Sea Institute of Iceland and the Marine Law & Ocean Policy Centre of Ireland (2000 &
2005).
Viewed by many as the founder of the field of national security law, Professor Moore chaired the
prestigious American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security for
an unprecedented five terms from 1982-86. He served two terms as the Presidentially-appointed
and Senate-confirmed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace
and, as the first Chairman, set up this new agency. He served as the Counselor on International
Law to the Department of State and has served as a Consultant to both the President’s
Intelligence Oversight Board and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has been a
member of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the Presidential Delegation of the United States to observe the elections in El
Salvador. In 1990, he served with the Deputy Attorney General of the United States as CoChairman of the United States-USSR talks on the Rule of Law. He also served as the legal
adviser to the Kuwait Representative to the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation
Commission. He was reelected honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law
(2002-2007), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Law Institute,
the American Society of International Law, the Committee on Exploration of the Seas of the
National Academy of Sciences, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and numerous other
professional and honorary organizations.
Professor Moore is married to Barbara Moore, who works within NOAA, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, and is assigned to the ECS (Extended Continental Shelf)
Interagency Task Force in the US Department of State. She is also a former NOAA aquanaut.
Professor and Mrs. Moore are the proud parents of two daughters, Victoria and Elizabeth.
SA T Y A N. NA NDA N
Ambassador Satya N. Nandan, C.F., C.B.E., was the Secretary-General of the
International Seabed Authority 1996-2009. He served earlier as Secretary for Foreign Affairs of
Fiji and as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for the Law of the Sea. He is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow of the
Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law.
Ambassador Nandan was among the leaders of the third UN Conference on the Law of
the Sea and Chairman of the negotiating groups on a number of key issues before the
Conference. As Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Law of the Sea, he lead
the consultations on outstanding issues relating to the regime for deep seabed mining which had
prevented the industrialized countries from accepting the 1982 United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea. The consultations resulted in the 1994 Agreement to implement the provisions
of Part XI of the Convention which opened the door to universal participation in the 1982
Convention. He was elected the Chairman of the UN Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and
Highly Migratory Fish Stocks and drafted the Chairman’s negotiating text for the Agreement
which was adopted in 1995 as Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the UN
Convention on the Law of the Sea relating to the conservation and management of Straddling
Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks.
Ambassador Nandan has written extensively on the Law of the Sea, the United Nations,
and related matters. He serves as general editor of the Law of the Sea commentary series,
consisting of six volumes published by the University of Virginia Center for Ocean Law and
Policy.
M Y R ON NOR DQUI ST
Associate Director & Editor, Center for Oceans Law and Policy
Myron H. Nordquist earned his S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and was
the first Senior Fellow at the School's Center for Oceans Law and Policy.
Professor Nordquist now serves as the Associate Director and Editor of the Center for Oceans
Law and Policy, and as the Senior Fellow for the Center for National Security Law at the
University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Nordquist was a professor of law at the United
States Air Force Academy from July 1993 until December 1998. During the 1995-1996
academic year, he was the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the United
States Naval War College. He was Deputy and then Acting General Counsel of the Department
of the Air Force from September 1990 until July 1993.
After completing postgraduate work in international law at Cambridge University, Professor
Nordquist was an attorney advisor and legislative counsel in the Department of State Office of
Legal Adviser from August 1970 until January 1978. While serving in the Office of Legal
Adviser, Professor Nordquist was Office Director of the NSC Interagency Task Force on the
Law of the Sea and Secretary of the United States Delegation to the Third United Nations
Conference on the Law of the Sea. He engaged in private law practice in Washington, DC, from
February 1978 until September 1990, specializing in international business law. Over the years,
he has taught on the adjunct law faculties at American University, George Washington
University, and the University of Denver. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Cambridge
University in 1970 and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia in 1979.
The Mellon Foundation supported his editorial work at the University of Virginia School of Law
for many years. In 2005 Professor Nordquist was named as the first Distinguished International
Scholar Affiliate of the University of Montana.
Professor Nordquist has edited over 50 books on international law topics. He is Editor-in-Chief
of the seven-volume Commentary on the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
sponsored by the University of Virginia's Center for Oceans Law and Policy. He has authored
and delivered uncounted academic presentations as well as numerous scholarly articles or
occasional papers, on oceans law, international law and national security law topics. Professor
Nordquist is primarily responsible for the substantive planning for the Rhodes Academy of
Oceans Law and Policy and for the Center for Oceans Law and Policy's annual meeting and
various programs such as the Doherty Lecture. He also edits the Center's annual proceedings
which are published in hardcover and distributed to leading libraries around the world.
Professor Nordquist was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1962 to 1966 making the
initial landing at Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam in early 1965. For this action, he received an
accelerated promotion and was awarded several combat decorations, including a "V" for valor.
B R E NDA PI E R C E is the Program Coordinator of the Energy Resources Program at the
U.S. Geological Survey. As such, she manages the domestic and international research
conducted at the USGS focused oil, gas, coal, coalbed methane, natural gas hydrates,
geothermal, uranium, oil shale, and heavy oil, and the environmental impacts of energy
occurrence and use. The Energy Resources Program is responsible for providing objective
science and information on the availability and quantity of worldwide resources. Understanding
oil, gas, coal and other resources and the impact of using or producing those resources is needed
for strategic planning, formulating economic and energy policies, evaluating lands in the purview
of the Federal government, and developing sound environmental policies.
Before joining the Energy Resources Program, Brenda was project chief of the USGS national
coal resource assessment. Prior to that, Brenda led an international USAID-funded program to
explore for and assess coal resources in the former Soviet Union. Pierce’s primary area of
expertise is organic petrology with an emphasis on coal geology and coal quality. She has led or
been part of research teams studying energy resources, predicting coal quality, reconstructing
depositional environments, predicting acid mine drainage, and studying the geology and quality
of coals around the world. She is a member of a number of professional organizations, has
published broadly in a variety of research and technical journals, and received undergraduate and
graduate degrees from the George Washington University.
Brenda Pierce, Program Coordinator, Energy Resources Program, U.S. Geological Survey
[email protected]
L OR R A I NE (L OR I ) R I DG E W A Y
Lori has been Director General, International Policy and Integration, at Fisheries and Oceans
Canada (DFO) since July 2004, having first joined DFO as Director General, Economic and
Policy Analysis in 1999. Her responsibilities include international fisheries policy, international
oceans and biodiversity, trade and international business development, and international policy
and integration for DFO.
She shares responsibility for the implementation of Canada’s International Governance Strategy,
which integrates activities related to international science, sustainable fisheries, international
oceans and marine biodiversity, and international multilateral instruments, in cooperation with
other federal departments.
Prior to DFO, Lori spent three years as a Director of Operations for macroeconomic policy at the
Privy Council Office (PCO) and 16 years at the Department of Finance, including three years in
Paris as Canada’s Finance Counselor in its Permanent Delegation to the OECD. Prior to joining
the federal government in 1981, Lori was as a faculty member of the economics departments of
the University of Alberta and later at University of Calgary.
Lori participates actively in several international fora, including as:
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Co-chair of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
(2006 – 2008)
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Current Chair of APEC Fisheries Working Group
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Chair of the OECD Committee of Fisheries from 2000-2006,
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Chair of several ad hoc international meetings, especially under the auspices of OECD
(globalization, environmentally subsidies, policy coherence for development)
She is also involved in UN-related work and other international fora such as the FAO and is a
member of the Steering Committee of the Global Oceans Forum. Lori’s staff also participates in
other fora.
C A PT A I N J . A SH L E Y R OA C H , JAGC, U.S. Navy (retired) is a long-time specialist in
public international maritime law. Earlier this year, he retired after serving 20 years in the U.S.
State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, responsible for law of the sea matters. He has
taught, advised and published extensively on national maritime claims and other law of the sea
issues, including the Arctic, maritime security, piracy and law enforcement. He has negotiated,
and participated in the negotiation of, numerous international agreements involving, i.a.,
cooperation in suppressing illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, weapons of mass destruction and
maritime migration. He received his LL.M. (highest honors in public international law and
comparative law) from the George Washington University School of Law and his J.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
ALEXANDER S. SKARIDOV
CAPT Alexander S. Skaridov is the Professor of Law at the Russian State Humanitarian
University and at the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy. He also directs the Institute
for the Ocean law Studies of the Academy of Humanitarian Education. He is the author of over
twelve books and over 100 scholarly articles and is currently an editor of the Academic Journal.
He is a practicing lawyer, leading the St. Petersburg Maritime Law firm.
In addition to his scholarly career, Professor Skaridov has a distinguished record of
military service. Being enlisted in 1977 he participated in operations of the Soviet Navy near
the Philippines (1978-1979), in Ethiopia (1979), near Mozambique (1980) and in the Persian
Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war. From 1983 he was assigned to the Mediterranean Command as
a staff legal adviser and in 1987 join the faculty of the Russian Naval Academy.
In 1992 he became a senior lecturer and in 1994 an assistant professor of the Command
faculty of the Russian Naval Academy. In 1995 he graduated from the Defence Language
Institute (Lackland, TX, USA) and in 1996 he graduated from the Naval Command College
(Newport, RI, USA). In early 1997 he was promoted to Chief of the International Law Chair of
the Russian Naval Academy (CAPT. Ret. in 2002).
Since 1999 he has been leading the Academy for Humanitarian Education (St. Petersburg)
of the Russian Academy of Humanitarian Sciences. He is also the Director of St. Petersburg
Representation of Russian Humanitarian State University. He is an academic of Russian
Academy of Humanitarian Sciences (1998) and academic of Russian Academy of Natural
Science (2001).
In 1993 he was scientific fellow at Stanford University (USA). In 2000, 2001 and 2003
he lectured International Law of the Sea in Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy (Greece)
and in 2008 in Xiamen University (China). He has written extensively on the Law of the sea and
Maritime law issues, in English and Russian. He has received various awards, commendations
and decorations for various services to his country.
PE T E R E . SL A I B Y
Pete started his career with Shell in New Orleans in 1980 working in the Gulf of Mexico as a
Petrophysical Field Engineer. He later moved into a Surveillance Engineering role in the Gulf of
Mexico and completed his assignment in New Orleans working on frontier Development
concepts in the Florida Gulf.
In 1984, Pete moved to the Shell subsidiary, Pecten International, where his assignments in
various development and production operation roles took him to Houston, Syria, Brazil and
Cameroon. In 1999, he was assigned the role of Asset Manager for the Southern North Sea gas
business in Lowestoft, Suffolk (UK), and in 2004, Pete assumed responsibility for one of Shell’s
oldest business relationships as Brunei Asset Manager. In these roles he managed the life-cycle
of the hydrocarbon production businesses, and most importantly, managed the facilities to the
highest health, safety and environmental standards.
In May 2008, Pete assumed his current position as General Manager of Shell’s Alaska business.
In this role, he manages Shell’s exploration and production activities in Alaska, including Shell’s
continued efforts to develop relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
Pete grew up in Connecticut and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where
he received a BE in Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife, Rejani, during his assignment in
Brazil.
MEAD TREADWELL
Mead Treadwell was appointed to the US Arctic Research Commission in 2001 and was
designated chair by the President in 2006. During his 30 years residency in Alaska, Mead
Treadwell has played an active role in Arctic research and exploration. His focus has been on
development of natural resources, protection of the Arctic environment and fostering
international cooperation after the Cold War. In business, government and the academy,
Treadwell has helped establish a broad range of research programs in technology, ecology, social
science and policy. Currently, Treadwell serves as Senior Fellow of the Institute of the North,
founded by former Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel. Treadwell’s research at the Institute
focuses on strategic and defense issues facing Alaska and Arctic regions, management of
Alaska’s commonly owned resources and integration of Arctic transport and telecommunications
infrastructure. Concurrently, in business, Mead Treadwell is Chairman and CEO of Venture Ad
Astra, an Anchorage, Alaska based firm which invests in and develops new geospatial and
imaging technologies. He is non-executive chairman of Immersive Media Company, a publicly
listed corporation Venture Ad Astra helped refinance in 2003. He served from 1990-1994 as
Deputy Commissioner of Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation, and helped
establish a number of instruments of official cooperation in the Arctic region.
G E I R UL F ST E I N
Geir Ulfstein is professor (1998 -) of international law at the Department of Public and
International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He holds the degree of cand. jur. (Oslo
1976) and dr. juris (Oslo 1995). He has been a judge Tromsø City Court (1989-90) and judge at
the Hålogaland Appeals Court (autumn 1990). He was professor II, University of Tromsø (200204) and director, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo (2004-08). He was
Vice-Dean for Research, Law Faculty, University of Oslo (autumn 2002) and leader of the
Committee to prepare Master of Law studies at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo (20022003).
Research
He has published in different areas of international law, including the law of the sea,
international environmental law, international human rights and international institutional law.
He is currently on sabbatical leave at University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne). He has recently finished a
book on ‘The Constitutionalization of International Law’ with professors Jan Klabbers, Helsinki
and Anne Peters, Basel (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2009). He is director of one of the
‘work packages’ in the project ‘Detection Technologies, Terrorism, Ethics, and Human Rights
(DETECTER)’, under final negotiation with the EU 7th Framework Programme.
Selected publications
• Human Rights, States Complaints', 'Maritime Delimitation between Greenland and Jan
Mayen Case (Denmark v. Norway)', 'Spitsbergen/Svalbard' and 'Jan Mayen' in Max
Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press (2008)
• ‘Do we need a World Court of Human Rights’ in Pal Wrange and Ola Engdahls (eds),
‘Law at War: The Law as it was and the Law as it Should Be’, Brill (2008)
• 'Counter-terrorism Measures: The Need for National and International Review', in R.F.
Jørgensen and K. Slavensky, Implementing Human Rights. Essays in Honour of Morten
Kjærum, The Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2007, pp. 451-461. Also in Nordic
Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 25 No. 2 (2007), pp. 205-213.
• Geir Ulfstein (editor) in collaboration with Thilo Marauhn and Andreas Zimmermann:
Making Treaties Work: Human Rights, Environment and Arms Control (Cambridge
University Press April 2007)
• Treaty bodies (Chapter in Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée and Ellen Hey (eds) Oxford
University Press Handbook on International Environmental Law, 2007)
• Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance (co-editor with O.S. Stokke
and J. Hovi), Earthscan 2005.
• Indigenous Peoples' Right to land, Max Planck Yearbook of United National Law, Vol. 8,
2004, pp. 1-47.
• Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Oxford University
Press (2003-05)
• Environmental Agreements: A Little noticed Phenomenon in International Law',
American Journal of International Law, Vol 94, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 623-660
• The Svalbard Treaty. From Terra Nullius to Norwegian Sovereignty, Scandinavian
University Press, 1995, 572 pp.
•
R. Churchill and G. Ulfstein, Marine Management in Disputed Areas. The Case of the
Barents Sea, Routledge, London, 1992, 179 pp.
B R I A N V A N PA Y
Brian Van Pay is the Maritime Geographer in the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs at the U.S.
State Department. Brian’s primary responsibility is coordinating much of the administrative,
policy, and science aspects of the U.S. effort to define its Extended Continental Shelf (ECS).
This multi-agency, multi-million dollar project is determining that area beyond 200 nautical
miles in the ocean where the U.S. holds sovereign rights over the natural resources on and under
the seabed—an area that is at least twice the size of California. As part of this work, Brian has
participated in two data collection cruises in the Arctic Ocean aboard the U.S. Coast Guard
Cutter Healy, including the joint cruise with Canada in the summer of 2008. He also handles
much of the U.S. foreign policy on maritime boundaries and limits.
Before this position, Brian spent five years as a Geographer with the State Department’s Bureau
of Intelligence and Research where he addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and managed
mapping and satellite imagery data covering U.S. embassies and consulates. He also spent two
years as a deployed geospatial analyst with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia.
Brian holds a B.S. in Anthropology (1996) and a M.S. in Environmental Monitoring (1999) both
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a M.S. in Strategic Intelligence
(2007) from the National Defense Intelligence College in Washington DC.
DR . DA V I D V A NDE R Z W A A G
Professor of Law
Marine & Environmental Law Institute
Dalhousie Law School
Dalhousie University
6061 University Avenue
Halifax, NS B3H 4H9
Tel: 902-494-1045
Fax: 902-494-1316
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.dal.ca/law/MELAW
Professor David VanderZwaag holds the Canada Research Chair in Ocean Law and Governance
at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He teaches
in the areas of international environmental law and law of the sea. He is the past Co-director of
Dalhousie's interdisciplinary Marine Affairs Program (1986-1991) and present Director of the
Marine & Environmental Law Institute.
Dr. VanderZwaag is a member of the IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) and
Co-chair of the CEL’s Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts & Coral Reefs. He is a Co-founder
and Co-chair of the Australian-Canadian Oceans Research Network (ACORN) and has had
extensive research and lecturing experience in South and Southeast Asia, the South Pacific,
Australia and the Caribbean.
Dr. VanderZwaag has authored over 100 papers in the marine and environmental law field. His
most recent book publications are Towards Principled Oceans Governance: Australian and
Canadian Approaches and Challenges (edited with D.R. Rothwell) (London: Routledge Press,
2006) and Aquaculture Law and Policy: Towards Principled Access and Operations (edited with
Gloria Chao) (London: Routledge Press, 2006). He co-led the writing of the ocean governance
chapter of the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment under the auspices of the Protection of the
Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group of the Arctic Council.
Professor VanderZwaag’s educational background includes: PhD (1994, University of Wales,
Cardiff), LL.M. (1982, Dalhousie Law School), J.D. (1980, University of Arkansas Law School),
M.Div. (1974, Princeton Theological Seminary), and B.A. (1971, Calvin College).
T H OM A S W I NK L E R
Ambassador, Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
January 1988
Graduated Law Faculty, University of Copenhagen
January 1988October 1990
Head of Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen
October 1990 –
December 1992
2nd Secretary, Royal Danish Embassy, Moscow
December 1992December 1994
Deputy Head of Mission, Royal Danish Embassy, Kiev
December 1994September 1998
Deputy Head of Department, Department of EU-Law,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Copenhagen
September 1998May 2002
Deputy Head of Mission, Royal Danish Embassy, Stockholm
May 2002September 2004
Deputy Head of Department, Department of Russia,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Copenhagen
September 2004October 2008
Head of Department of International Law
October 2008-
Ambassador, Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs
September 2005 -
Associated Professor of International Law, Law Faculty,
University of Copenhagen
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Decorated in 2002 as Knight of the Order of Dannebrog; Denmark
Decorated in 2002 as Commander of the Order of the North Star; Sweden
Decorated in 2008 as Knight 1st degree of the Order of Dannebrog; Denmark
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. R ÜDI G E R W OL F R UM
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,
Im Neuenheimer Feld, 53569120 Heidelberg Germany
tel.: +49 (0)6221 482-255, fax: +49 (0)6221 482653
e-mail: [email protected]
1964 - 1969
Study of Law at the Universities of
Bonn and Tübingen
18 January 1969
First State-Examination
1969-1973
Junior barrister
29 June 1973
Graduation, Dr. iur.
14 September 1973
Second State-Examination
1973-1980
Assistant professorship, Institute of
International Law, University of Bonn
1 August 1977 -
Research fellow at the Center for
31 July 1978
Oceans Law and Policy of the
University of Virginia; scholarship
from the German Research Foundation
July/August 1980
Participation at the Third U.N. Law
March/April 1981
of the Sea Conference (alternate)
March/April 1982
Representative of the German delegation
and adviser to the ministry of
economics
28 November 1980
Habilitation, venia legendi for
national public and international
public law
6 May 1982 -
Professor, Chair of national public
30 November 1982
and international public law,
University of Mainz, Faculty of Law and
Economics
2 December 1982 -
Professor, Chair of national public
30 April 1993
and international public law,
University of Kiel, Law Faculty,
Director of the Institute of
International Law
June 1983 - May 1988
Participation at the 4th Special
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
concerning Antarctic mineral resource
activities, Member of the German
delegation and Chairman of the Legal
Working Group (beginning in 1985)
August/September 1983
Participation at the Preparatory
Commission for the International SeaBed Authority and for the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
(Delegation of the Federal Republic of
Germany)
29 April 1986 -
Judge at the Court of Appeals for
30 April 1993
Administrative Matters for the states
of Niedersachsen and SchleswigHolstein; since 1991 judge at the Court
of Appeals for Administrative Matters
of the Land Schleswig Holstein
August/September 1987
Visiting professor at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Law School
January 1990 -
Member of the UN Committee on the
September 1999
Elimination of Racial Discrimination;
re-elected in 1994 and 1998,
resignation in 1999
1 June 1990 -
Vice-rector of the Christian-
30 April 1993
Albrechts-Universität at Kiel
August/September 1990
Visiting professor at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Law School
1 October 1990 -
Faculty adviser to the graduate
30 September 1996
program on Business Administration and
Innovation, Kiel
since 1 January 1992 -
Faculty adviser to the graduate
31 December 1997
program on National and International
Environmental Law, Kiel
30 June 1992 -
Member of the Senate of the German
26 June 1996
Research Foundation; re-elected in June
1995
1992-1998
Participation in the Consultative
Meetings of the Antarctic Treaty
Parties
1993-1998
Chairman of the Working Group of Legal
Experts to the Antarctic Treaty Parties
Meetings
since 1 May 1993
Director of the Max Planck Institute
for Comparative Public Law and
International Law, Heidelberg;
Professor at Heidelberg University
September/October 1993
Visiting professor at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Law School
1 January 1994 –
30 November 1997
Chairman of the board of the United
Nations German Association
since 18 February 1994
Member of the Executive Board of the
"Zentrum für deutsches Recht am Institut für Staat und Recht der Russischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften" (Center
for German Law at the Institute of
State and Law at the Russian Academy of
Sciences)
since 1 March 1994
Member of the Council of the German ILA
(International Law Association)-Section
since 15 November 1995
Member of the Executive Board of the
"Stiftung für marine Geowissenschaften" (Foundation for Marine
Geosciences) (GEOMAR)
26 June 1996 -
Vice-President of the German Research
30 June 2002
Foundation
since 1 August 1996
Judge at the International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea; re-elected in May
1999; 5 October 1996 - 30 Sept. 1999
Vice-President of the Inter-national
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
since 20 March 1997
Member of the Council of the
"Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Völkerrecht"(German Society for
International Law)
since 23 December 1997
Member of the Committee "Der Mensch und
die Biosphäre" ("Men and the
Biosphere") of the German Ministry of
the Environment
since 27 March 1998
Member of the Working Group "Biodiversität" ("Biodiversity") at the
"Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung
von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer
Entwicklungen" (European Academy for
the Research into Consequences of
Scientific-Technological Developments)
since 1 September 1998
Member of the Expert Committee "Biodiversitätsforschung" ("Biodiversity
Research") of the German Ministry of
Education, Science, Research and
Technology
since 12 February 1999
Doctor honoris causa of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow
since 6 December 1999
Doctor honoris causa of the "Shihutug"
Law College", Ulan Bator/Mongolia
since 27 September 2000
Member of the Executive Board of the
"Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und
Meeresforschung" (Stiftung AWI,
Foundation for Polar and Maritime
Research)
1 January 2001 –
Member of the Advisory Board of the
31 December 2005
Center for Oceans Law and
Policy, University of Virginia
School of Law
since 19 June 2001
Member of the International
Environmental Board of Arbitration
2001 - 2005
Member of the Advisory Board of the
Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung
(German Foundation for Peace Studies)
2002 - 2006
Vice-President of the Max Planck
Society for the Advancement of
Sciences
since 18 November 2003
Founding Member of the Humanities
Section of the German Academy of
Natural Sciences (Leopoldina)
since 23 December 2003
Member of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Hamburg
since 16 March 2005
President of the German Society for
International Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Völkerrecht)
since 1 October 2005
President of the International Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea
since 9. Juni 2006
Member im Stiftungsrat der
Exzellenzinitiave zur Förderung der MaxPlanck-Gesellschaft
Professor A NA T OL Y B . ZOL OT UK H I N
Deputy Chancellor on International Affairs
Russian State Gubkin University of Oil and Gas (in short, Gubkin
University), Moscow, Russia
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Doctor of Technical Sciences
Professor of Petroleum Engineering – Stavanger University (Stavanger, Norway)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Murmansk State Technical University (Murmansk, Russia),
Doctor Honoris Causa, Arkhangelsk State Technical University (Murmansk, Russia),
Vice-President of the World Petroleum Council (2008-2011)
Member of the Academic Council of the European Energy Forum, EUREF – institute (Berlin, Germany)
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
Reservoir and Production Engineering/Simulation//Field Development Planning/Project Evaluation
Offshore Petroleum Resources and Reserves/Arctic Shelf Development
Evaluation of Resources and Reserves
Enhanced/Improved Oil Recovery (EOR/IOR)
Fluid/Formation Mechanics
Uncertainty, Risk and Decision Making in Petroleum Sciences and Engineering
Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Mathematics, Interval Calculus
Engineering Education
EDUCATION
M.Sc
Reservoir Engineering
Gubkin University,
1969
Ph.D
Fluid Mechanics
Gubkin University,
1973
M.Sc
Applied Mathematics
Moscow State University,
1977
PostDoc Fellow
Reservoir Engineering
Stanford University,
Doctor of Technical Sciences
Reservoir Engineering
Gubkin University,
PUBLICATIONS
Anatoly B. Zolotukhin is an author and co-author of 12 books and more than 100 articles.
1978/79
1990
AWARDS
In 2002 was awarded (together with co-editors) the Gubkin Prize (the highest award in the Russian
Petroleum Industry) for publishing the book “Basics of Offshore Petroleum Engineering and
Development of Marine Facilities in the Arctic.”
In 2006 was awarded with Vernadsky medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for
achievements in Science and Research.