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Dr. M.A. Fitzmaurice Faculty of Law Dr. M.A. Fitzmaurice Professor of Public International Law Part-Time Nippon foundation Professor of Marine Environment Protection at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International Doctor Honoris Causa University of Neuchâtel Department of Law Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS E-mail address: [email protected].: 00 44 (0) 20 7882 3949 CURRICULUM VITAE MAJOR ACADEMIC POSTS Present Employment The Chair of Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London Professor of Public International Law the Department of Law, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London with general responsibility for the teaching of public international law in the College at graduate and undergraduate level (at the undergraduate and post-graduate level international environmental law and post-graduate level the law of treaties). (from 1995) Main teaching interests are: the law of treaties; international environmental law Main areas of research interest: the law of treaties; international environmental law (protection of marine environment and biodiversity, whales; the environmental protection of the Baltic Sea); indigenous people’s rights. Other Current Positions Editor-in-Chief of a book series ‘Queen Mary Studies in International Law’ published by Martinus Nijhoff Publisher (Brill). Editor –in –Chief of International Community Law Review Member of the of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Member of the International Law Association Working Group on Treaty Interpretation External Examiner for International Law Subjects undergraduate and LLM: University College London (2012-2015); London School of Economics (2015-present) Past Employment 1981-1982 Researcher at TMC Asser Institute in the Hague , the Netherlands 1982-1986 Legal Assistant Iran –United States Claims Tribunal Professor M.A. Fitzmaurice Curriculum Vitae From 1989 to 1995, Senior Lecturer, and from 1994 Reader, in International Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam with responsibility for the advanced course in general international law, international environmental law and law of the sea. From 1992 to 1995, part time lecturer at King’s College, London taking the LLM Course in the law of treaties (1992/1993 and 1993/1994) and international environmental law (1993/1994 and 1994/1995). A Vesting Professor in various law schools; Berkeley Law School; Sorbonne –Paris 1; University of Kobe; University of Warsaw; University of Wroclaw. Invited as a speaker numerous conferences every year. Grants received: Conference Grant of the Modern Law Review Commission of the European Union Grant on ecological crimes (a multi-stakeholders grant) Delivered in 2001 The Hague Academy of Private and Public International Law a course on ‘International Protection of the Environment’. MAIN PUBLICATIONS books Single- authored and co-authored The International Legal Aspects of the Environmental Protection of the Baltic Sea published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992 (335 pages) International Protection of the Environment, RCADI, (2002), 480 pp. Watercourse Cooperation in Northern Europe. A Model for the Future (co-authored with O.Elias), TMC Asser Press -ISBN 90-6704-172-6 (2004). Contemporary Issus in the International Environmental Law (single authored) Edward Elgar Publisher 2009, ISBN 98 1 84542 283 7 Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (co-authored with O.Elias) Eleven Publishing, 2005, ISBN 90-77596-06-2 Whaling and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015), ISBN 978-1-107-02109-9 Reviewed in: The British Yearbook of International Law (2015), Vol. 86 No. 1, 196–238 ‘Whaling and International Law is a thought-provoking and well-researched work. It raises and addresses questions from the point of view of the rules that deal with whaling, but also from the point of view of general international law: the law of treaties, the law on state responsibility, science and the law, as well as conflicts of ‘community values’ that may also give rise to conflicts of norms. For these reasons, this book is a very useful work not only for the specialist in the international law of fisheries, wildlife or whaling, but also for the general international lawyer’. American Journal of International Law (2017), vol. 111, 556-571, ‘Her book is a timely and invaluable survey of the complexity of the issues surrounding whaling in this second decade of the twenty-first century, the historical background to those issues, and the failings of the current legal instruments. It is a must-read for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of the issues’. Journal of Transnational Environmental Law, Vol. 6 (2017), 375-389, – – 2 Professor M.A. Fitzmaurice Curriculum Vitae ‘Fitzmaurice distils a vast array of competing regulatory challenges into a highly informed and informative evaluation of a whaling problem from a legal perspective. The future regulation of whaling remains likely to be a complex, emotive and frustrating task , for reasons that are explained in Fitzmaurice’s rich account in a compelling, accessible and insightful manner’. (co-authored with Panos Merkouris Treaties in Motion : From Formation to Termination ( Cambridge University Press, 2020) Edited (with Stephen Allen, Daniel Costelloe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Paul Gragl, and Edward Guntrip ) The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2019) ISBN 978-o- 19-878614-6 (witth Wouters, Tanzi, Andenas and Chiuzi), Genial Principles and Coherence of International Law (Brill. Nijhoff), 2019 ISBN 1877-4822 (With Attila Tanzi and Angeliki Papantoniou) Multilateral Environmental Treaties (Edward Eagar Publishing 2017, ISBN 978 I 78347 729 3), The Introduction (with Editors). With Dai Tamada, Whaling in the Antarctic. Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment , Brill/Nijhoff, 2015 ISBN 978-90-04-41382. IMLI Manual on the Law of Sea and Maritime Law (3 vols) (co-edited with David Attard, Norman Martinez and Elda Belda) vol. I 2014, II and III, 2016. The Interpretation and Application of the European Convention on Human Rights. Legal and practical Implications (co-edited with Panos Merkouris), Martinus NIjhoff Publishers, 2012, ISSN 1877-4822. Legacies of the Permanent Court of Justice (c—edited with Christian Tams), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2013, ISSN 1877-4822). Research Handbook on International Environmental Law (eds. Fitzmaurice/Ong/Merkouris), Edward Elgar, 2010, ISBN 978 1 84720 124 9 Treaty Interpretation and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 30 Years On (eds. Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Olufemi Elias and Panos Merkouris), Queen Mary Stud8es in International Law (Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010), ISBN 1877-4822. Interrogating Treaties, Essays in the Contemporary Law of Treaties¸ (editor of the volume with Dr. M.Craven) Wolf Legal Publishers, 2005, 270 pages. Legal Issues of State Responsibility before the International Judicial Institutions (2004), (editor of the volume with Dr Danesh Sarooshi) Hart Publications, ISBN 1-84113-389-2 ( June 2004) Exploitation of Natural Resources in the 21st Century, (M.Fitzmaurice and M.Szuniewicz, eds), , ISBN 90-411-2063-7, Kluwer Law International (2003). Right of the Child to Clean Environment a book is published within the framework of the Programme on International Rights of a Child under (co-editor of the book with A.Fijalkowski), Ashgate Publishers 2000 (349 pp) – – 3 Professor M.A. Fitzmaurice Curriculum Vitae Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice book of contributions in honour of Sir Robert Jennings published by Cambridge University Press, 1996 (600 pages) (co-editor with Professor Vaughn Lowe ) Interactions between International Law and Municipal Law a case book published by T.M.C. Asser Institute, 1993 (1,000 pages) (co-editor with Professor C. Flinterman) Constitutional Reforms and International Law in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia by luwer Law International, (co-editor with Prof. R. Mullerson and Mads Andenas 1997) Landmark Cases in International Law international law case book which with Dr. Eric Heinze, published by Kluwer Law International in 1998 Changing Political Structure of Europe - Aspects of International Law, a collection of essays, published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992 (350 pages) (co-editor with R. Lefebre and E.W. Vierdag) chapters in books ‘Exceptional Circumstances and Treaty Commitments’, in Duncan Hollis (ed.) The Oxford Gide to Treaties (2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2020), 595-623 ISBN 975-0-19-884824-9 Due Diligence in the Use of International Watercourses’, in\: Heike Krieger, Anne Peters and Leonhard Kreuzer (eds), Due Diligence in the International Legal Order ,(Oxford University Press 2020) 129-146. ‘The Potential of Inter-State Conciliation within the Framework of Environmental Treaties’, in: (Tomuschat and Cohen eds.,) Flexibility in International Dispute Settlement Conciliation Revisited (Brill /Nijhoff 2020). 83-110. ‘The Angst of the Exceptio Inadimplenti non est Adimplendum in International Law’, in. Bartels and Paddeu (eds), Exceptions in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020), ‘The Gabcikovo-Nagymros Projwct: The Background of the Case’, in: Forlati, Mbengue , McGarry (eds), The Gabcikovo-Nagymaroz Judgment and its Contribution to the Development of International Law (Brill/Nijhoff 2020) , pp. 12-22. ‘Law of Treaties’, in : Chesterman, et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Treaties (Oxford:
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