The IMLI Treatise On Global Ocean Governance
Volume II: UN Specialized Agencies and Global Ocean Governance
General Editor David Joseph Attard
Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Alexandros Ntovas
Author Information
General Editor David Joseph Attard, Director, International Maritime Law Institute
Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Chair of Public International Law, Queen Mary University of London, and
Alexandros Ntovas, Lecturer in Shipping Law, Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies
David Joseph 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.
Malgosia Fitzmaurice, the Academic Coordinator of this volume, holds a Chair of Public International Law in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London. She specializes in international environmental law, the law of treaties, and indigenous peoples. She is Editor in Chief of the International Community Law Review journal and of the book series published by Brill/Nijhoff entitled Queen Mary Studies in International Law. Professor Fitzmaurice was invited as a Visiting Professor to and lectured at various universities, such as Berkeley Law School, the University of Kobe, and at Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), and she was involved in a multi stakeholder project funded by the EU Commission on environmental crime.
Alexandros X.M. Ntovas, the Editor of this volume, is a Lecturer in Shipping Law at Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He has held a law lectureship in international law at the University of Southampton Law School, where he was also a Governing Board Member of the Institute of Maritime Law. He has studied under a number of prestigious scholarships for law and political sciences in Greece, England, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. He has practiced public and administrative law, and acted on numerous occasions as a policy advisor to governments, including the European Union, the public sector, and the shipping industry. His expertise lies in admiralty, with a focus on wet shipping law, navigational freedoms, and practice, as well as in all issues regarding piracy and other aspects of contemporary safety and security of ships, ports, and offshore installations. He leads the LLM in International Shipping Law.
Contributors:
Regina Asariotis, Senior Legal Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
David Joseph Attard, Director, IMLI, and Vice-President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Claudio Chiarolla, former Legal Officer, World Intellectual Property Organization
Emmanuella Doussis, Associate Professor, University of Athens
Peter Ehlers, President, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
Olufemi Elias, Assistant Secretary General, Registrar of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Chair of Public International Law , Queen Mary University of London
Serena Forlati, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Ferrara
Kanako Hasegawa, Associate Programme Officer, United Nations Environment Programme
Tore Henriksen, Professor, The Arctic University of Norway
Elizabeth A Kirk, Professor of International Environmental Law, Nottingham Trent University
Paul B Larsen, former Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Francis Lyall, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Aberdeen
Graham Mott, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Elizabeth Mrema, Director, Division of Environmental Law and Conventions
Stefania Negri, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Salerno
Alexandros XM Ntovas, Lecturer, Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Marko Pavliha, Professor of Law and Vice Dean, University of Ljubljana Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transportation
George P Politakis, Legal Adviser, International Labour Organization.
Anila Premti, Policy and Legislation Section, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Gerasimos Rodotheatos, Researcher, Panteion University
Harry N. Scheiber, Director Emeritus, Law of the Sea Institute
Seline Trevisanut, Associate Professor of International Law, Utrecht University
UNWTO Legal Department, represented by Miguel Angel Susino, Legal Associate, under the coordination of Alicia Gómez, and with the collaboration of Carmen Varo, Legal Associate
David Vivas, Legal Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Meagan Wong, Lecturer in Law, Essex University
