Aldo Chircop

Director, Marine & Environmental Law Institute
Professor of Law

N.P. University of Malta
LL.D. University of Malta
LL.M. Dalhousie University
J.S.D. Dalhousie University

Dr. Aldo Chircop is a specialist in maritime law, marine and environmental law and policy, and integrated coastal and ocean management. His work experience has included directorships of the Marine Affairs Programme and Marine Environmental Law Program at Dalhousie, the International Ocean Institute and the Mediterranean Institute in Malta, and a brief term with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria. While in Malta, Dr. Chircop was also a member of that country's delegation to the Preparatory Commission for the Law of the Sea.

Between 2003-2005 Dr. Chircop was Chair in Marine Environment Protection at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. His continuing professional affiliations include the Canadian Bar Association, Nova Scotia Barristers Society, Canadian Maritime Law Association, Coastal Zone Canada Association and the International Centre for Coastal and Ocean Policy Studies. Dr. Chircop has extensive experience in his areas of expertise in Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Caribbean and Mediterranean.

He has published widely in collective works and periodicals. He is co-author of Maritime Law (with Edgar Gold and Hugh Kindred), which was recipient of the Walter Owen Book Prize in 2005. He is also co-editor of the Ocean Yearbook (with Moira McConnell and Scott Coffen-Smout) and co-editor (with Olof Linden) and lead author of Places of Refuge for Ships (Nijhoff, 2005).