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Dr Margaret Young is the William Charnley Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD and an LLM (First class) from the University of Cambridge and a BA/LLB (First class) from the University of Melbourne and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Her research interests are in international trade law and international environmental law and her current project considers how these fragmented bodies of law interact to solve problems related to the sustainability of fisheries. Dr Young lectures in the LLM course on WTO law and she is the assistant editor of the British Year Book of International Law. She is the lead organiser of an academic conference on “Regime Interaction in International Law: Theoretical and Practical Challenges”, to be held at the Lauterpacht Centre in June 2009.
Lecture summary: Global fish stocks are disappearing. The accelerating decline is exacerbated by overfishing, subsidies for shipbuilding, illicit trade and inadequate management. In response, multiple international legal “regimes” seek to control these practices. The World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, regional fisheries organisations, and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have overlapping mandates relating to fisheries sustainability. However, there is little understanding about how these regimes interact in practice, or how they should interact, leading to significant problems in the negotiation, implementation and enforcement of law. My presentation explores alternative legal bases for regime interaction and assesses practical and theoretical implications for international law and governance.
Faculty of Law profile: Dr Margaret Young.
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