HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495
Dr. Moira L. McConnell
Professor of Law
B.A. University of Victoria (1978)
LL.B. Dalhousie University (1984)
PhD, (Law) University of Sydney, Australia (1989)
Telephone: (+1 902) 494-2776
E-mail: moira.mcconnell@dal.ca
Dr. Moira L. McConnell is a Professor of Law and an Associate (former Director) of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute. She has been a member of the Faculty of Law since January 1989 and a member of the Nova Scotia Bar Society since 1990.
She was the first Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (2004-2007). Dr. McConnell has also been a Co-director of Dalhousie University’s Marine Affairs Program and is a former Executive Director of the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia.
Professor McConnell is also a Special Advisor to the Director, International Standards Department, International Labour Organization (ILO) in connection with the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and is an Expert/Resource person for the ILO International Training Centre (ITC), Turin, Italy (ToT, MLC, 2006 course). Over the last decade she has undertaken a number of international and regional projects ( e.g. Legislative Review Project under the GEF/UNDP/IMO Global Ballast Water Management Programme; researcher in the European Commission project - ECOPORTS and is currently involved in a number of projects with the MEL Institute and in cooperation with the Health Law Institute (CREATE).
Professor McConnell is also involved in working with Masters and Doctoral level candidates at Dalhousie University and elsewhere (e.g., Advisor to the MBA Programme in Shipping and Logistics at Copenhagen Business School; doctoral supervisor for the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway) and is affiliated with the Mediterranean Programme for International Environmental Law and Negotiation at the MEPIELAN CENTRE, Panteion University, Athens.
In 2009 Professor McConnell was elected to membership in the International Academy of Comparative Law and is the General Rapporteur for the International Congress (2010) session on Air and Maritime Law. She is also a member of a number of other organizations including the IUCN- Commission on Environmental Law (CEL), the Society of International Economic Law, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ - Canada, Canadian Council), Canadian Council on International Law, the American Society of International Law, the Canadian Maritime Law Association, Women in International Trade and Shipping (Canada) (WISTA), the Leqal Education Action Fund (LEAF).
Dr. McConnell’s current teaching and research interests are in the fields of public and private international law and domestic law including; shipping, law of the sea, ocean governance, international labour law, international environmental law, contract law and public law. She is a Co-editor of the international interdisciplinary Ocean Yearbook (1998-) and an Associate Editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2006-) and is on the editorial board of . She has published widely in the fields of international law, law of the sea, governance systems, corporate governance, administrative and constitutional law, environmental law, maritime law and policy, social justice and human rights.
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