 Dr
Sarah Derrington
Sarah Derrington teaches maritime law at undergraduate and post-graduate
level and equity and commercial law at the University of Queensland. She
was a visiting lecturer to the University of Nottingham from 2002 to 2006
where she taught International Carriage of Goods by Sea in the LLM programme.
More recently she has been a Visiting Professor to the University of Aix-Marseilles,
France. She has published in various journals including the Law Quarterly
Review, Modern Law Review, Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, the Insurance
Law Journal, andthe Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce has
written a chapter in The Modern Law of Marine Insurance, Vol 2 by
D. Rhidian Thomas (LLP, 2002). In conjunction with James M Turner of the
English Bar, she has authored The Law and Practice of Admiralty Matters (OUP,
2007).
She is the Australian Vice-President of the Maritime Law Association of
Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ) and has represented Australia and New
Zealand in the CMI’s work on uniform rules for the carriage of goods
by sea and in relation to reform of the law of marine insurance. She is a
member of the Admiralty Rules Committee (Cwlth).
Dr Derrington continues to practise at the private Bar, exclusively in shipping
law.
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 Dr
Rachel Baird
Rachel Baird joined the Law School in February 2005 following
five years of lecturing and research at Melbourne University
and Deakin University. Her PhD, which is under examination,
centred on strategies to deter and eliminate illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing through an examination of regional
and coastal state practice in the Southern Ocean. Rachel has
subsequently published in the area of international fisheries
management and law of the sea. Prior to taking up academia
Rachel worked in private practice and for the Department of
Defence. (as an Air Force Legal Officer). She holds a Bachelor
of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland
and Master of Law from the Queensland University of Technology
specialising in International Environmental law. |
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Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz
Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz joined the School of Law in March 2005. He
received his legal education in France, Ireland, Switzerland
and the United States. He is a graduate of the French National
Institute of Political Studies, of the Graduate Institute
of International Studies in Geneva and of the University of
Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. He was also
a visiting student at Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently
working on a Ph.D. thesis at the Graduate Institute of International
Studies in Geneva under the direction of Professor Lucius
Caflisch, a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and
a former Swiss delegate at the Third UN Conference on the
Law of the Sea. His thesis examines whether international
organisations have the right to register vessels, aircraft
and spacecraft and, if so, under what conditions. When the
right exists, the thesis analyses the regime applicable to
various categories of objects. His professional experience
include an assistant Professorship at the University of Miami
School of Law where he taught various courses and seminars
in Public International Law and European Union Law, and a
Robert Schuman scholarship at the European Parliament in Luxembourg
where he worked at the General Directorate for Studies and
Research. At the University of Miami, he was also a research
assistant to Professor Bernard Oxman, a former U.S. delegate
at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. Vincent
Bantz has authored or co-authored various works on the Law
of the Sea and Public International Law. He lectures on the
Law of the Sea, European Union Law and Comparative Law. |
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Craig Forrest
Before joining the Law School in 2001, Dr Craig Forrest spent
two years as a naval officer in the South African Navy, worked
as a research grants assistant at Kings College, London and
lectured at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Teesside and
Holborn College, London. His current research interest is
in International Law, particularly the Law of the Sea, Maritime
Law and Cultural Heritage Law, and he was recently a member
of the South African delegation to the UNESCO meeting of experts
to draft an international convention on the protection of
underwater cultural heritage. Craig has published in Lloyd's
Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Marine Policy, International
and Comparative Law Quarterly, Ocean Development and International
Law and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.
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|  Professor
Edgar Gold AM CM QC
Professor Gold had a first career at sea and was Master of
a number of ships. He then studied law and has a BA and LLB
from Dalhousie University, Canada and a PhD in maritime transport
from Wales University. He was an academic at Dalhousie for
many years, now being an Emeritus Professor, as well as being
in practice. He is a Past President of the Canadian Maritime
Law Association, a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime
International, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science,
a Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, a Member
of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the
Nautical Institute, and numerous other associations. Dr Gold
is the Canadian Member of the Board of Governors and Visiting
Professor at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden,
as well as at the International Maritime Law Institute, Malta.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law,
University of Queensland and lives much of the year in Brisbane,
teaching regularly in the CML maritime law courses.
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 Dr
Michael White QC
Dr Michael White is an Adjunct Professor within the TC Beirne
School of Law and former Executive Director of the Marine
and Shipping Law Unit, a Master Mariner and a Queen's Counsel.
He had a first career in the Australian Navy before attending
the University of Queensland where he graduated Bachelor of
Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. He practised full-time as a
barrister at the Queensland Bar from 1974 until 1999 and was
made Queen's Counsel in 1988. He is also admitted to practice
in PNG and the Solomon Islands. He was awarded a PhD by Bond
University for a thesis entitled "Marine Pollution Laws
of the Austrasian Region". This thesis was was later
published in book form, with some amendments, by the Federation
Press in 1994. Dr White is the editor of Australian Maritime
Law, 2nd ed. (Federation Press, 2000) and has written widely
in maritime law related areas.
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| MASLU is able to call
on other members of the T C Beirne School of Law with expertise
in areas such as International Trade Law, International Law,
Constitutional Law, Torts Law, Electronic Commerce and Dispute
Resolution, and other members of the BEL Faculty and other
UQ Faculties. It regularly calls on numerous Guest Lecturers
from the marine industry and legal practice who present papers
in the MASLU courses. The interdisciplinary skills of the
Centre for Marine Studies, a scientific, especially marine
biology, research centre located at the University of Queensland,
are also regularly used as Guest Lecturers. All of the above
assist with research and in giving advice to the post-graduate
researchers in the marine law area. |
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