The IMLI Treatise on Global Ocean Governance Volume III: IMO and Global Ocean Governance

by Attard, David; Balkin, Rosalie; Greig, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780191862663
• ISBN10: 0191862665
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

1. IMO and Global Ocean Governance: Past, Present, and Future, Rosalie Balkin
2. IMO: Working within the UNCLOS Framework and Global Ocean Governance, Agustin Blanco-Bazan
3. IMO, Liability and Compensation, and Global Ocean Governance, Mans Jacobsson
4. Major Oil and HNS Spills: Measures Taken by IMO to Promote Global Ocean Governance, Karen Purnell
5. IMO: Maritime Security - An Essential Feature for Sustainable Maritime Development and Global Ocean Governance, Chris Trelawny
6. Counter-Piracy Measures Adopted by IMO to Promote Global Ocean Governance, Hartmut Hesse
7. IMO, Maritime Terrorism-Technical and Legal Measures and Global Ocean Governance, Jan De Boer
8. IMO's work on Environmental Protection and Global Ocean Governance, Aldo Chircop
9. IMO, Ship-sourced Emissions, Climate Change, and Global Ocean Governance, Edmund Hughes
10. Newly Accessible Maritime Environments - the IMO, the Polar Regions, and Global Ocean Governance, Turid Stemre
11. IMO, the Audit Scheme, and its Role in Global Ocean Governance, Lawrence Barchue
12. IMO: The Role of Classification Societies in Promoting Global Ocean Governance, Ismael Cobos Delgado
13. IMO: Gender Equality, the Promotion of Women in the Maritime Sector, and Global Ocean Governance, Pamela Tansey
14. IMO, Technical Cooperation, and Global Ocean Governance, Jonathan Pace