This is a past event
AUCEL (Energy Seminars 2023/2024) and ACCPIL jointly welcome Prof Clive Schofield to Aberdeen
Abstract:
The presentation outlines the causes and consequences of climate change induced sea level rise. It considers the sea level rise predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The legal framework for coastal baselines and insular features established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is outlined before consideration of the impacts of sea level rise on baselines along the coast on which claims to maritime zones depend. The work of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise and the International Law Commission’s study Group on Sea Level Rise and International Law are highlighted. Potential physical as well as legal response options are explored and their practical and legal implications are then assessed.
Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden and Senior Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. Before moving to Australia he was Deputy Director of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) at the University of Durham, UK. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Durham and also holds an LLM in international law from the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research interests relate to international boundaries and particularly maritime boundary delimitation and geo-technical issues related to the law of the sea 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 involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes by providing advice to governments engaged in boundary negotiations and in dispute settlement cases before international courts and tribunals. Additionally, he served as an independent expert witness in the international arbitration case between the Philippines and China concerning the South China Sea.
- Speaker
- Professor Clive Schofield
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law, Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
- Venue
- Taylor C11
- Contact
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Daria Shapovalova, AUCEl, dshapovalova@abdn.ac.uk