Professor Robin Churchill

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. International Human Rights Law, International Dispute Resolution, Rights in Europe, International Law of Marine Resources, and Principles of International 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

Books

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

Book Chapters

2009 "The European Committee on Social Rights: Putting Flesh on Bare Bones of the European Social Charter" with U. Khaliq, M. Langford(eds) in Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-0521860949
2007 "From Port State to Court State? International Litigation as a Possible Weapon to Combat Sub-Standard Ships", T M Ndiaye and R Wolfrum(eds) in Liber Amicorum Thomas A Mensah: Law of the Marine Environment and Settlement of Disputes, Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 899-916
2007 "Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: the Current Use and Future Potential of the Collective Complaints Mechanism of the European Social Charter", M Baderin and R McCorquodale(eds) in Economic, Social, Cultural Rights in Action, Oxford University Press, pp. 195-240
2006 "Some Reflections on the Operation of the Dispute Settlement System of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea during its First Decade", D. Freestone, R. Barnes and D. Ong(eds) in The Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects, Oxford University Press, pp. 388-416
2005 "The Impact of State Practice on the Jurisdictional Framework contained in the LOS Convention", A. Oude Elferink(eds) in Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea: The Role of the LOS Convention, Leiden: Nijhoff, pp. 91-143
2001 "Managing Straddling Fish Stocks in the North-East Atlantic: A Multiplicity of Instruments and Regime Linkages but how Effective a Management?", O.S. Stokke(eds) in Governing High Seas Fisheries: The Interplay of Global and Regional Regimes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 235-72

Articles

2007 "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 "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 "The MOX Plant Litigation: the First Half-Life" with J. Scott in 53 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, pp. 643-676
2001 "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 "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