The IMLI Treatise on Global Ocean Governance
Volume III: IMO and Global Ocean Governance
General Editor David Attard, Volume Editor Rosalie Balkin, and Donald Greig
Edited by
Author Information
David Attard, Director, International Maritime Law Institute, Rosalie Balkin, Former Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, International Maritime Organization, Donald Greig, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
David Attard, David Attard, the General Academic Coordinator and Editor of this series, is the Director of the International Maritime Law Institute. He has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 2011, and Vice-President of the Tribunal since 2017. He read law at the University of Malta and the University of Oxford, was appointed to the Chair of Public International Law at the University of Malta, and has been a Visiting Professor of International Law at the University of Rome II, a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, as well as a Fullbright Fellow at the Yale Law School.
Rosalie Balkin, the academic coordinator of this volume, is a former Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations at the International Maritime Organization. While she held this position she also served as Secretary of IMO's Legal Committee and for a time also as IMO's Assistant Secretary-General. She was previously Assistant Secretary in the Office of International Law at the Federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra. She has held numerous academic posts, including at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Melbourne University, New South Wales University, and at the University of Cambridge.
Donald Grieg, the Editor of this Volume, is a Barrister of the Middle Temple and of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, as well as an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He was for many years Editor of the Australian Year Book of International Law, and has held Visiting Professorships at Nottingham and Bristol Universities, Kings College London, and the London School of Economics and Political science. He was the last Menzies Lecturer at University of Virginia Law School in the United States, in succession to two judges of the High Court of Australia, one of whom was its Chief Justice and the other who became Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Contributors:
David J Attard, Director, IMLI, and Vice-President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Rosalie Balkin, Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Lawrence Barchue, Director, Department for Member State Audit and Implementation Support
Agustin Blanco-Bazan, International Lawyer, Consultant, and Lecturer
Aldo Chircop, Professor of Law, Dalhousie University
Jan De Boer, Senior Legal Officer, International Maritime Organization
Ismael Cobos, Head, Martitime Training and Human Element in IMO
Donald Westlake Greig, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
Hartmut Hesse, Visiting Professor, World Maritime University
Edmund Hughes, Head of Air Pollution and Energy Efficiency, International Maritime Organization
Mans Jacobsson, former Chief Executive Officer, International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds
Jonathan Pace, Head of the Arab and Mediterranean Region in the Technical Cooperation Division,
Karen Purnell, Managing Director, Owners Pollution Federation
Harry N. Scheiber, Director Emeritus, Law of the Sea Institute
Turid Stemre, Head of the Delegation for Norway to the Maritime Safety Committee
Pamela Tansey, Senior Deputy Director, International Maritime Organization
Chris Trelawny, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Maritime Security and Facilitation, International Maritime Organization
