Professor Robin Churchill

Professor of International Law

Email: r.r.churchill@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 386795

Room No: 4.12

Degrees

LL.B (London)
LL.M (London)
Ph.D (Wales)

Biography

Robin Churchill has been Professor of International Law at Dundee since October 2006. Before that, he was at Cardiff University for many years, successively as lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor of law. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Tromso (Norway), a research officer at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Centre for Maritime Policy, University of Wollongong (Australia).

Professor Churchill has acted an adviser/consultant to various non-governmental organizations (particularly environmental and fisheries organizations), a number of foreign governments, the European Commission and the European Parliament. He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Year Book of International Law, the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law and Law, Science and Policy. He is also a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's Panel of Arbitrators for Arbitration of Disputes relating to Natural Resources and the Environment.

Professor Churchill has given numerous guest lectures and conference papers, both in the United Kingdom and in nearly 20 other countries.

Teaching

Undergraduate:- EU Law, International Law.
LL.M. UN Human Rights Law, International Dispute Resolution,Regional Systems of Human Rights Protection, International Law of Marine Resources, and WTO Law.

Professor Churchill offers postgraduate supervision in the field of international law of the sea, international environmental law, EU fisheries law and human rights.

Research

Professor Churchill's main research interests lie in the fields of the International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, EU fisheries law and human rights, on the first three of which he has published widely.

Selected Publications

Articles

2012 Robin Churchill, "The Bangladesh/Myanamar Case: Continuity and Novelty in the Law of Maritime Boundary Delimitation" in (2012) 1 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, pp. 137-152
2012 Robin Churchill, "Dispute Settlement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2011" in (2012) 27 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, pp. 517-551
2007 Robin Churchill, "The Jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea relating to Fisheries: Is there much in the Net?" in 22 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, pp. 383-424
2004 Robin Churchill, "The Collective Complaints System of the European Social Charter - An Effective Mechanism for Ensuring Compliance with Economic and Social Rights?" with U. Khaliq in 15 European Journal of International Law, pp. 417-456
2004 Robin Churchill, "The MOX Plant Litigation: the First Half-Life" with J. Scott in 53 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp. 643-676
2001 Robin Churchill, "Facilitating (Transnational) Civil Liability Litigation for Environmental Damage by Means of Treaties: Progress, Problems, and Prospects" in 12 Yearbook of International Environmental Law, pp. 3-41
2000 Robin Churchill, "Autonomous Institutional Arrangements in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Little-Noticed Phenomenon in International Law" with G. Ulfstein in 94 American Journal of International Law, pp. 623-59

Books

2010 Robin Churchill, "The EC Common Fisheries Policy " with Daniel Owen, Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199275847
1999 Robin Churchill, "The Law of the Sea " with A.V. Lowe, 3rd Edition, Manchester University Press ISBN: 978-0719043826
1992 Robin Churchill, "Marine Management in Disputed Areas: The Case of the Barents Sea " with G. Ulfstein, London: Routledge ISBN: 978-0415038119
1987 Robin Churchill, "EEC Fisheries Law ", Dordrecht: Nijhoff

Book Chapters

2012 Robin Churchill, Urfan Khaliq 'The Protection of Economic and Social Rights: A Particular Challenge?' in H. Keller and G. Ulfstein(eds) UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 199-260)
2011 Robin Churchill, 'The European Union and the Challenges of Marine Governance: From Sectoral Response to Integrated Policy?' in D. Vidas and P. J. Schei(eds) The World Ocean in Globalisation (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011, pp. 395-436)
2011 Robin Churchill, 'Compliance Mechanisms in the Law of the Sea: From the Individual to the Collective' in H. Hestermayer et al(eds) Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity: Liber Amicorum R�diger Wolfrum (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011, Vol. I, pp. 777-806)
2010 Robin Churchill, 'Trends in Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Towards the Increasing Availability of Compulsory Means' in D. French, M. Saul and N. D. White(eds) International Law and Dispute Settlement: New Problems and Techniques" ( Hart, pp. 143-171) ISBN: 9781841139128
2010 Robin Churchill, Geir Ulfstein, Myron H. Nordquist 'The Disputed Maritime Zones around Svalbard' in Tomas H. Heidar and John Norton Moore(eds) Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea Martinus Nijhoff" (Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 551-593) ISBN: 9789004177567
2009 Robin Churchill, U. Khaliq 'The European Committee on Social Rights: Putting Flesh on Bare Bones of the European Social Charter' in M. Langford(eds) Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law" (Cambridge University Press) ISBN: 978-0521860949
2007 Robin Churchill, 'From Port State to Court State? International Litigation as a Possible Weapon to Combat Sub-Standard Ships' in T M Ndiaye and R Wolfrum(eds) Liber Amicorum Thomas A Mensah: Law of the Marine Environment and Settlement of Disputes (Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 899-916)
2007 Robin Churchill, 'Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: the Current Use and Future Potential of the Collective Complaints Mechanism of the European Social Charter' in M Baderin and R McCorquodale(eds) Economic, Social, Cultural Rights in Action (Oxford University Press, pp. 195-240)
2006 Robin Churchill, 'Some Reflections on the Operation of the Dispute Settlement System of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea during its First Decade' in D. Freestone, R. Barnes and D. Ong(eds) The Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects (Oxford University Press, pp. 388-416)
2005 Robin Churchill, 'The Impact of State Practice on the Jurisdictional Framework contained in the LOS Convention' in A. Oude Elferink(eds) Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea: The Role of the LOS Convention (Leiden: Nijhoff, pp. 91-143)
2001 Robin Churchill, 'Managing Straddling Fish Stocks in the North-East Atlantic: A Multiplicity of Instruments and Regime Linkages but how Effective a Management?' in O.S. Stokke(eds) Governing High Seas Fisheries: The Interplay of Global and Regional Regimes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 235-72)