Invited Participants
Nisuke Ando
He is a professor of law at Kyoto University as well as member of
Human Rights Committee which is established under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He also worked for Kobe
University as a professor in the faculty of law in 1981-1990. In 1995
he was designated as a Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow
in the field of public international law. Author of Surrender,
Occupation, and Private Property in International Law (Oxford
University Press, 1991) and A Digest of Japanese Practice in
International Law (Japan Institute of International Affairs and Keio
Shuppan Inc., 1985, 1989) as well as a writer of many other books and
articles on international law.
Robert L. Friedheim
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle,
Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern
California (USC). Author of seven books, including Negotiating The
New Ocean Regime (1993), Japan and the New Ocean Regime (1984)
and Making Ocean Policy (1981), more than 50 articles, and 50 studies
as director of a research project that served the U.S. Delegation to the
Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference. Dr. Friedheim
recently completed a term as director of the School of International
Relations, USC. He also served as director, USC Sea Grant Institutional
Program, and associate director, Institute for Marine and Coastal
Studies, USC.
Robin Friedheim
Robin Friedheim holds the B.A. in government from Barnard College,
Columbia University and the M.A. in history from Columbia
University. She has held various positions in university and corporate
public affairs and as a writer/editor, and currently devotes her efforts
to politics.
Douglas M. Johnston
Douglas M. Johnston received a Master of Arts degree in 1952 and a
Bachelor of Laws in 1955 from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
He continued his education at Yale University in the United States
where he received his Master of Laws in 1959 and his Doctorate of
Juristic Science in 1962. Mr. Johnston holds many other titles, emeritus
professor of law at the University of Victoria in Canada, visiting
professor of law at the National University of Singapore and adjunct
professor of law at Dalhousie University. Mr. Johnston served as the
former chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations at the University of
Victoria.
Among his many publications are the following; The International
LAW of Fisheries (Yale University Press, 1965 and 1987); Canada
and the New International Law of the Sea (University of Toronto Press,
1984); The Theory and History of Ocean Boundary-Making (McGill-Queens
University Press, 1988); and, International Treaties in the
Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966).
Rin-itsu Kawakami
Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University. Served as an
assistant professor at Kyoto University and a scholar at the Max Planck
European Law Institute in Germany. Presently professor of law at
Kyoto University and also an associate visiting professor at Berlin
Free University since 1995. Main books include Doitsu Shimin Shiso
to Ho-Ronri (Citizen's Thought and Legal Logic in Germany), Ho No
Bunka-Shakai-Shi (Cultural and Social History of Law), Gendai-Ho
No Shakai Riron (Social Theory of Modern Law), Doitsu Horitsu-Gaku
No Rekishi-teki Genzai (History of Present German Jurisprudence),
Tenno Kikan-Setsu No Rekishi-Teki Kozo (Historic Structure of the
Theory of Emperorship as an Institution) and Noshi No Ho-Mondai
(Legal Issues Associated with Brain Death). He translated legal classics
including Hoshakaigaku No Kisoriron (Ehrlich) and Boken-ron
'Matriarchy' (Bachofen).
Richard J. McLaughlin
Richard J. McLaughlin is associate professor of law and director of
the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program at the University
of Mississippi Law Center where he teaches courses on ocean and
coastal law, international law, international environmental law,
admiralty law, and land use planning.
He has written widely on a broad range of international and domestic
marine-related law topics. He served on the board of editors of the
Territorial Sea Journal and is currently national co-chairman of the
Marine Affairs and Policy Association. In 1991, he was named a
Fulbright scholar to Japan.
Professor McLaughlin holds a B.A. from Humboldt State University,
California (1978), a J.D. from Tulane Law School, New Orleans (1985),
an LL.M. from the University of Washington School of Law (1987),
and is completing the requirements for a J.S.D. degree at the University
of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Christopher D. Stone
Christopher D. Stone is professor of law at the University of Southern
California. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from
Harvard, a law degree from Yale, and was Fellow in Law and Economics
at the University of Chicago. At USC, he teaches international
environmental law, as well as courses in moral philosophy, property and
corporations. He has served as rapporteur for the American Bar
Association's International Committee on International Law and the
Environment, is a trustee of the Center for International Environmental
Law (CIELNSA) and an advisor to the Foundation for International
Environmental Law and Development (FIELD/London).
Among his books are the environmental classic, Should Trees Have
Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural 0bjects, and, most recently,
The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda
(Princeton University Press, 1993).
He is past chairman of the Committee on Law and Humanities of the
Association of American Law Schools, and has researched under or
consulted for a variety of governmental agencies including the
President's Commission on Communications Policy, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, the National Institute of
Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of
Energy, and the United States Sentencing Commission, as well as the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Professor Stone's current
interests include examining strategies for underwriting the defense and
repair of the global environment in the context of North-South tensions.
Steinar Andresen
Steinar Andresen is a political scientist from the University of Oslo,
Norway. He has worked at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute since his graduation
in 1979. He was a visiting scholar at the School of Marine Affairs,
University of Washington, Seattle 1987-88. He started out working
with law and policy at the sea as well as ocean management and
planning. More recently he has worked on international resource and
environmental regimes. Since 1991 he has been research director at
the Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
Paper Contributor
Thomas A. Clingan, Jr.
J.D. The George Washington University. Professor of law emeritus,
University of Miami School of Law. Author of The Law of the Sea,
Ocean Law and Policy (Austin and Winfield, 1994), and numerous
papers and articles related to International Law of the Sea. Prof. Clingan
served as vice-chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Third United
Nations Law of the Sea Conference and as chairman of the English
Language Group of its drafting committee. He also served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries Affairs with the
rank of Ambassador. Until recently, he was director of the Ocean and
Coastal Law Program at the University of Miami School of Law.
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