Aldo Chircop
Professor of Law
Email: aldo.chircop@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1007
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Arctic shipping
- Canadian maritime law
- International maritime law
- International law of the sea
- Ocean law and policy
Education
- LLD (Malta)
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- JSD (Dalhousie)
Bar admissions
- Nova Scotia
Research grants
- Uniformity and Diversity in Shipping Regulation: Reconciling General and Particular Interests in Canadian and International Maritime Law. SSHRC.
- SSHRC Insight Grant, Navigating Arctic Waters: Polar Code & Beyond. SSHRC.
- Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, Module N, Ocean Frontier Institute for Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
- Regulating shipping in Russian Arctic Waters: Between international law, national interests and geopolitics (SIRAW). UiT the Arctic University of Norway and Research Council of Norway.
- Law and Governance in the Arctic: Environmental and Climate Change Considerations. Centre for International Governance Innovation and University of Copenhagen.
- Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI): Designing Safe, Sustainable, and Inclusive Coastal Communities and Industries for Atlantic Canada.
- Demystifying Maritime Governance: Analysis of the frameworks and emerging issues for the governance of shipping in Canada. Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Shipping.
Recently completed
- First Canadian-Japanese Scholarly Exchange on the Law of the Sea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
- Regulating Maritime Occupational Health and safety in the Canadian Arctic Gateway: Regulatory Divergence or Convergence between the Shipping and Fishing Sectors.
- The Leverhulme Trust, UK, International Network Grant for a project entitled āProject on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project)ā.
Cross-appointments & affiliations
- Marine Affairs Program, Faculty of Science, pilipiliĀž», International Development Studies Program, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Centre for the Study of Security and Development, Department of Political Science
- Member, Canadian Transportation Research ForumĀ
- Member, Canadian Maritime Law AssociationĀ
- Member, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
- Member, American Society of International Law
- Member, Canadian Council on International Law
- Visiting Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China
- Advisory Board member, Brill Research Paper Series
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of International Maritime Law
- Editorial Board Member, Brazilian Yearbook of the International Law of the SeaĀ
- Researcher, Ocean Frontier Institute
Teaching
- Maritime Law and Practice (Maritime Law I) ()
- Law of the Sea ()
Areas of supervision:Ģż
Canadian Maritime Law, International Maritime Law, International Law of the Sea, Arctic Shipping
Research interests
Dr Chircop's principal areas of research are in Canadian maritime law, international maritime law and international law of the sea. In particular, his maritime research focuses on the international regulation of shipping in polar regions, especially in the Arctic. He is Chair of the ComitĆ© Maritime Internationalās International Working Group on Polar Shipping. His previous positions included directorships of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (MELAW), Marine Affairs Program (MAP), International Ocean Institute (IOI) and the Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta. Dr Chircop was also Canadian Chair in Marine Environment Protection at the IMO's World Maritime University in Malmƶ, Sweden. Dr. Chircop has published extensively in Canada and overseas.