PhD (geography), University of Durham, UK
Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden. He was previously Director of Research at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW),Australia and Leader of the Sustaining Oceans and Coastal Communities research theme within the UOW Global Challenges Program. He holds a PhD (geography) from the University of Durham, UK and an LLM from the University of British Columbia(UBC), Canada. He has held both an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship and QEII Senior Research Fellowship.
Clive is a maritime geographer and international legal scholar whose research interests relate to maritime jurisdictional aspects of the law of the sea, the determination of baselines along the coast in an era of sea level rise, the delineation of the limits to maritime claims and maritime boundary delimitation. Clive’s current research focuses on geo-legal and geo-technical aspects of maritime boundary and security issues. He has published over 200 publications including 23 books and monographs (including edited works) on these issues.
Clive is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise and serves as an International Hydrographic Office (IHO)-nominated Observer on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS). He has also been directly involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes, providing advice and research support to governments engaged in boundary negotiations. He has been involved in four boundary dispute settlement cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and has been appointed as a Peacebuilding Adviser on behalf of the United Nations and World Bank. Additionally, he served as an independent expert witness in the 2016 international arbitration case between the Philippines and China.
Clive has supervised 11 students to completion of their PhD studies. At WMU he teaches within the Ocean Sustainability, Governance &Management (OSGM Specialization), co-convening courses on ‘Governing Human Activities that Affect the Ocean’ and ‘Global Ocean Governance and Multilateral Diplomacy’. He also contributes to capacity-building training programmes in ocean governance and the law of the sea including the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy, the Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea, the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea and the Programme on Dispute Resolution in the Law of the Sea at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea(ITLOS).
Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden. He was previously Director of Research at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW),Australia and Leader of the Sustaining Oceans and Coastal Communities research theme within the UOW Global Challenges Program. He holds a PhD (geography) from the University of Durham, UK and an LLM from the University of British Columbia(UBC), Canada. He has held both an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship and QEII Senior Research Fellowship.
Clive is a maritime geographer and international legal scholar whose research interests relate to maritime jurisdictional aspects of the law of the sea, the determination of baselines along the coast in an era of sea level rise, the delineation of the limits to maritime claims and maritime boundary delimitation. Clive’s current research focuses on geo-legal and geo-technical aspects of maritime boundary and security issues. He has published over 200 publications including 23 books and monographs (including edited works) on these issues.
Clive is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise and serves as an International Hydrographic Office (IHO)-nominated Observer on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS). He has also been directly involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes, providing advice and research support to governments engaged in boundary negotiations. He has been involved in four boundary dispute settlement cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and has been appointed as a Peacebuilding Adviser on behalf of the United Nations and World Bank. Additionally, he served as an independent expert witness in the 2016 international arbitration case between the Philippines and China.
Clive has supervised 11 students to completion of their PhD studies. At WMU he teaches within the Ocean Sustainability, Governance &Management (OSGM Specialization), co-convening courses on ‘Governing Human Activities that Affect the Ocean’ and ‘Global Ocean Governance and Multilateral Diplomacy’. He also contributes to capacity-building training programmes in ocean governance and the law of the sea including the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy, the Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea, the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea and the Programme on Dispute Resolution in the Law of the Sea at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea(ITLOS).
