News and events archive

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Launch of the Douglas M. Johnston Annual Ocean Governance 

Dalhousie’s Marine & Environmental Law Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the new Douglas M. Johnston Annual Ocean Governance Lecture.

Guest speaker: Professor John Norton Moore, will discuss “Toward More Effective Counter Piracy Policy.”

John Norton Moore is the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law and Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy and Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law. He is former Ambassador of the United States to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Chairman of the Board of the United States Institute of Peace.

Also scheduled to speak are:

David VanderZwaag, Chair

Dean Phillip Saunders

Brian Flemming

Aldo Chircop

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Thursday November 19, 2009

ELSS and the MEL Institute present "Meet the MELP Profs"

 
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PROGOVNET Scholarship 2008-09

Progovnet, a two year project funded by the Nippon Foundation in collaboration with Dalhousie University, the International Ocean Institute Canada (IOI) and the University of the West Indies offered a variety of scholarships to nationals of the Wider Caribbean aimed at building regional capacity in ocean governance.

Click here to read the project overview document.
Click here to read the scholarship descriptions.
Click here for the details on the Marine & Environmental Law Institute Scholarship.
Click here for the details on the International Ocean Institute Canada (IOI) Scholarship.
Click here for the details on the Marine Affairs Program (MAP)Scholarship.
 

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Recent News

Brian Flemming, CM, QC (Class of 1962) is the recipient of the 2010 Weldon Award for Unselfish Public Service.  Presentation to be held at the Annual Spring Reception held on Thursday March 25th from 4:00-6:00pm in the Law School Atrium.

OMRN Board member David VanderZwaag has been appointed to The Royal Society of Canada (The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada) expert panel on "Ocean Climate Change and Marine Biodiversity", commissioned at the RSC's own initiative  (January 2010).

Wylie Spicer appointed Presient of the Canadian Bar Association for Nova Scotia.  As of September 1st, 2008 McInnes Cooper's Wylie Spicer was appointed President of the Canadian Bar Association for Nova Scotia. Wylie is a Partner in the Halifax office whose area of practice is maritime law as well as energy and natural resources. Wylie also works with maritime and multi issue disputes involving commercial entities.

Professor Aldo Chircop has been selected as the recipient of the 2007-2008 DSU Award for Teaching Excellence for the Faculty of Law.The award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, March 11th at 7:00pm. Congratulations to Professor Chircop from the Law School community!

Thursday March 6, 2008
Dalhousie University Marine Affairs in conjunction with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute and the International Ocean Institute (IOI) sign agreement with the University of West Indies to undertake ocean governance project.
Click here to read full article

Thursday January 31, 2008
Dalhousie 1993 JSD Graduate, Dr. Zhiguo Gao, elected Judge of the International Tribunal For The Law of the Sea.  Click here to read the full press release.

2006 Doctoral Thesis Awards Presented to Professor Professor Meinhard Doelle
http://www.dalgrad.dal.ca/

Professor Edgar Gold Awarded Order of Australia
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours published on 13 June 2005, Professor Edgar Gold, CM, QC, of Brisbane, has been awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for “services to maritime law and protection of the environment as a policy developer and adviser, and through academic roles and involvement in international maritime organisations.” View the article.

Public lectures:

February 22, 2008:  “Fisheries Management in New Zealand”
Stefan Leslie, MMM 1997, Deepwater Manager
Ministry of Fisheries, New Zealand

February 20, 2008: Speaker Series #4
With or Without Ice?:  Perspectives on Polar Governance
Polar Bears and Climate Change:  International and National Legal Responses
Nigel Bankes, Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Calgary

January 22, 2008:  Speaker Series #3
With or Without Ice?:  Perspectives on Polar Governance
Partitioning the Central Arctic Ocean among Five Coastal States: Will it be Resolved by Contention or by Consensus?
Ron Macnab, Canadian Polar Commission
Click here for more information

January 12, 2008:  Advocacy by Charities and Non-Profits & The Fundamentals of Service as a Director

November 15, 2007:  Stepping it Up:  Switching to Green Energy NOW, Paul Gipe (view the presentation)

November 14, 2007:  Speaker Series #2
With or Without Ice?:  Perspectives on Polar Governance
Canada's Arctic Policy

October 10, 2007:  The Argentina-Uruguay Pulp Mills Case before the International Court of Justice:  Provisional Measures and Environmental Protection

October 10, 2007:  Speaker Series #1
With or Without Ice?:  Perspectives on Polar Governance
The Antarctic Treaty System:  Past, Present and Future

September 27, 2007:  The International Legal Personality of the European Union, Dr. Vincent Power

June 8, 2007:  Under the Polar Ice:  Diversity, Disturbance and Climate Change, Dr. Kathleen Conlan

January 17, 2007:  "The Emergence of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas:  New Restrictions on the Freedom of Navigation?"

October 10, 2006: The Argentina-Uruguay Pulp Mills Case before the International Court of Justice: Provisional Measures and Environmental Protection, Dr. Washington Baliero

September 20, 2005: Undoing Grotius: Emerging Assertions of Non-Flag Enforcement on the High Seas, Rosemary Rayfuse

October 12, 2005: Canada's Greenhouse Gas Offset System: Demystifying Carbon Credits, Carol-Ann Brown

November 13, 2004: Security and Environment concerns and the Criminalization of Seafarers

December 6, 2004: Waterkeepers: Bringing Meaning and Force to Environmental Law in Canada, Mark Mattson 

Public Forums:

• November 27, 2007:  "Taking Action on Climate Change:  From the Global to the Local"
  Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, Author of Deglobalization & Winner of the 2003 Right Livelihood Award
  Meinhard Doelle, Legal Scholar and Author of From Hot Air to Action:  Climate Change, Compliance, and the Future of International Environmental Law
  Brendan Hayley, Coordinator of the Energy Issues Committee at the Ecology Action Centre
• November 8, 2007:  Meet the MELP Profs
• January 14, 2005: Creating a Positive Future for Fisheries and Coastal Communities Worldwide
• May 19, 2005: Comparing Bilateral Investment Treaty Practice in Canada, Mexico, the United States and the European Union: Cross-Border Influences and Alternatives

Workshops and conferences:

• January 17, 2006: Marine Biodiversity – Beyond National Jurisdiction Workshop
• May 19, 2005: Renewable Energy Promotion in Atlantic Canada: A Key Component of a Sustainable Energy Strategy
• May 18, 2005: Comparing North America’s Legal Regimes: Similarities and Differences, Cooperation and Conflict
• October 4-7, 2004: An International Colloquium on Environmental Law & Land Use
• September 27, 2004: Principles in Practice Workshop

Lectures:

• Sept. 20, 2005: "Undoing Grotius: Emerging Assertions of Non-Flag Enforcement on the High Seas.” Presented by Dr. Rosemary Rayfuse, Associate Professor and Director of International Law Programs, University of New South Wales.
• Oct. 12, 2005: ”Canada's Greenhouse Gas Offset System: Demystifying Carbon Credits” by Carol-Ann Brown. With the spring release of Canada's revised climate change plan, Project Green, as well as the summer publication of proposed rules for large final emitters and for a domestic greenhouse gas credit system, a Canadian emissions trading market is rapidly becoming a reality.  The presentation will set the context for, and discuss the details of, the Canadian Offsets System.
• Nov. 13, 2004: "Security and Environment concerns and the Criminalisation of Seafarers." Presented by the Company of Master Mariners of Canada and Marine and Environmental Law Institute.
• Dec. 6, 2004: "Waterkeepers: Bringing Meaning and Force to Environmental Law in Canada." Presented by Mark Mattson, Canadian Waterkeeper Alliance President & Environmental Lawyer. Co-sponsored with the Environmental Law Students Society.

The Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Business Law Forum was established, thanks to a donation by the law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and Dalhousie Law School Alumni at that firm, to foster an exchange of ideas about business law at Dalhousie Law School and within the business and legal communities in Atlantic Canada.