HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495
Books
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: A Legal Primer to an Emerging International Regime
Moira McConnell, Dominic Devlin, Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), adopted by the International Labour Organization, is the fourth pillar of the international maritime regulatory regime. It both fills a gap in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Recasting Transboundary Fisheries Management Arrangements in Light of Sustainability Principles
Canadian and International Perspectives
Edited by Dawn A. Russell and David L. VanderZwaag 
The management of transboundary fish stocks might be described as a complex mosaic. Multiple fora are trying to incrementally shift the fisheries management course towards a sustainable future. Recasting Transboundary Fisheries Management Arrangements in Light of Sustainability Principles reviews and critiques key recasting efforts with a primary focus on Canada’s transboundary fisheries management arrangements for the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It provides a primer on the international law and policy framework governing transboundary fisheries and offers bilateral and regional case studies in the search for more principled fisheries governance approaches based on the new sustainability imperatives.
This book offers current Canadian and international perspectives on the challenges facing regional fisheries management organizations, as well as bilateral and national arrangements, as they face the tides of sustainability reform. Struggles to implement precautionary and ecosystem approaches are especially highlighted.
Download order form
Eritrean Carriage of Goods by Sea Law: Designing a Forward
Looking Regime
Author: Berhanykun Ghebremedhn. Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG
Bibliographic data is availalbe at: http://dnb.d-nb.de
The geopolitical location of Eritrea makes it an important shipping route. Since independence, it has embarked on a major rehabilitation and expansion of its transportation network. It has also begun to reform its legislation on the carriage of goods by sea in light of its economic interests in shipping, accommodate the interests of its trading partners, facilitate operation of the carriage contract, and to be relevant to the legal implications of ongoing developments in shipping technology. But thus far, the reform reflects the British Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1971. This monograph analyses the existing Eritrean, and the new draft shipping law in light of other relevant national laws, regional and international conventions, and jurisprudence, and sets out detailed recommendations that the emergent law must accommodate in order to serve its reform objectives. This work will not be of interest to only maritime law students, academics and practitioners, but also to Eritrean law and policy makers, the international shipping community and, in view of the quickening pace of African economic integration, other African states especially those in eastern Africa.
Environmental Law: Cases and Materials
Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2009, Meinhard Doelle with Chris Tollefson
This is an entirely new and unique casebook for use in environmental law courses across Canada written by two leading academics in the field of environmental law. It includes a comprehensive collection of cases, articles, commentary, notes and questions. It is designed as a teaching tool for a foundation course in environmental law. The work covers a broad range of topics, including:
• International Environmental Law
• The Common Law
• Jurisdiction over the Environment
• Environmental Regulation
• Compliance and Enforcement
• Judicial Review of Environmental Decision-making
• Federal Environmental Assessment
• Parks and Protected Areas
• Species Protection
• Climate Change
Understanding and Strengthening European Union-Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance
Edited by: Timo Koivurova, Aldo Chircop, Erik Franckx, Erik J. Molenaar and David L. VanderZwaag
Copies of this publication are available free of charge (just pay the postage cost) by contacting
Kamrul Hossain at khossain@ulapland.fi
http://www.arcticcentre.org/?DeptID=25361
This book is now available on-line for personal use only: Understanding and Strengthening European Union-Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance.
Climate Governance in the Arctic
Edited by: Timo Koivurova, E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Nigel Bankes
Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average. This is opening the Arctic to transportation and resource development and creating serious challenges for local communities and indigenous peoples.
Climate Governance in the Arctic considers two aspects of climate change from an institutional perspective. It focuses on how relevant regimes, institutions and governance systems support mitigation of climate change. It also examines the extent to which the varying governance arrangements in the Arctic support adaptation and the development of adaptation processes for the region. The book’s focus on Arctic governance offers unique insights within climate change mitigation and adaptation research.
Climate Governance in the Arctic is intended for an audience of international lawyers, international relations scholars and political scientists concerned with the regional implications of climate change for existing governance regimes and the role of indigenous peoples within those regimes.
http://www.springer.com/law/book/978-1-4020-9541-2
The Future of Ocean Regime-Building
Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. Johnston
Edited by: Aldo Chircop, Ted L. McDorman and Susan J. Rolston
One of the most creative innovations of the international diplomatic community in the 20th century was its invention of the international regime,” wrote Douglas M. Johnston in his last major work published posthumously (The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena, Nijhoff, 2008). While regimes often provide order and certainty and a consequent reduction in disputes and misunderstandings, regimes are driven by specific concerns. With diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives, the distinguished contributors to this tribute follow a long tradition of scholarly inquiry into the governance, creation, operation, viability and maintenance of international regimes. Their contributions on ocean and environmental regimes as diverse as fisheries, ocean dumping, maritime security, seafarers’ rights, or enhancement of marine environmental protection attest to the depth to which modern international law and the underlying international relations have been transformed into an international law of structured cooperation. This book includes biographical and bibliographic notes on Douglas M. Johnston. For more information visit Brill.
www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=28395
The Federal Environmental Assessment Process - A Guide and Critique
The Evolution of Federal Environmental Assessment Procedures
Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) is among the most employed pieces of legislation in this country, a statute that applies to thousands of development projects per year. When choosing to grant or deny approval for proposed developments, environmental assessments can provide an invaluable and objective platform for the decision maker. Understanding how the government wields this potentially powerful tool and how the process works is vital for all environmental and natural resource lawyers, particularly with the Act scheduled for a major parliamentary review.
Professor Meinhard Doelle, the author of this unique publication, brings a vast range of environmental law experience to the project. Considering that, as a development planning tool, an environmental assessment is a critical information-gathering and decision-making instrument, Butterworths The Federal Environmental Assessment Process – A Guide and Critique needs to be part of your arsenal. Published May 2008 by LexisNexis Canada. For more information visit Butterworths Catalog and Bookstore.
Places of Refuge for Ships
This book is about the contemporary problem of places of refuge for ships in need of assistance. There is an uncodified humanitarian custom providing a right to a ship in distress to assistance and protection by coastal authorities, including access to a place of refuge when necessary. With modern ships carrying large volumes of hazardous cargo and fuel, a disabled ship can pose a significant threat to the marine environment and interests of an affected coastal state. After being refused refuge, the Erika and Prestige became casualties causing severe environmental damage. Today, while the humanitarian right to assistance remains, the threat to the marine environment and the coastal state has to be considered in the granting of refuge.
Written by scholars and practitioners, the book consists of 20 multidisciplinary chapters addressing the law, policy and management aspects of the problem. Edited by: Aldo Chircop & Olof Linden. In Print, 2006. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 7th Edition
The seventh edition of International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada is primarily designed for students and others who experience the world from a Canadian perspective. While the text includes international documents and decisions, it also draw extensively on the practice of international law, chiefly as interpreted and applied in Canada.
The book is also supported by a website. This electronic resource enhances the use of the printed text by the provision of additional international legal sources. In particular, the website provides online access to full copies of the treaties, United Nations documents, and international law case reports partially reproduced in the book. In addition, it offers an electronic index by means of a keyword search of the entire text and footnotes.
General Editors: Hugh M. Kindred & Phillip M. Saunders. Published 2006, Edmond Montgomery Publications Limited.
From Hot Air to Action?
Climate Change, Compliance and the Future of International Environmental Law. By Meinhard Doelle, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D.
“Climate change is not a problem that can be adequately addressed by any one national. It’s a global problem requiring a global solution. Meinhard Doelle’s examination of the international community’s attempts to grapple with the challenge of climate change through the Kyoto Protocaol is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of humanity and our capacity to change it for the better.” — David Suzuki
Published on November 29, 2005 by Carswell.
MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation
Contributions to international environmental negotiation in the Mediterranean context. Edited by Evangelos Raftopoulos and Moira L. McConnell.
Published in December 2004 by Ant. N. Sakkoulas - Bruylant Publishers. For more information visit: Mepielan.
Canadian Environmental Protection Act & Commentary, 2005/2006 Edition
By Meinhard Doelle, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D. Since its passage in 1988, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) has been the cornerstone of federal environmental law and policy. Published in 2005 by LexisNexis Canada. For more information visit: Butterworths.
Maritime Law in Canada
Congratulations are in order to MEL Institute Associates Aldo Chircop and Hugh Kindred, and Honorary Fellow Edgar Gold for their publication, Maritime Law in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2003). It was awarded a prestigious national award, The Walter Owen Book Prize (2005) by the Foundation for Legal Research.
The authors have written the first general treatment of Canadian maritime law to be published since 1916. This comprehensive text covers the whole of modern shipping law.
Published on January 1, 2003 by Irwin Law.