Research Interests

My work is currently in the field of Public International Law and addresses the Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law and Human Rights, as well as post-Communist legal transitions in Central and Eastern Europe.

Recent Publications

 Edited book

Blackstone’s Statutes on Media Law (First Edition) R. Caddell and H. Johnson, pp 400 + xii (OUP, 2006).

Blackstone’s Statutes on Media Law (Second Edition) R. Caddell and H. Johnson, pp 400 + xii (OUP, 2008).

Articles and Chapter Contributions

“Nature Conservation in Estonia: From Soviet Union to European Union” (2009) 40 Journal of Baltic Studies 307-332; also published in D. J Galbreath (ed.), From Phosphate Springs to Nordstream: Contemporary Environmentalism in the Baltic States (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).

 “Public Interest Speech and Investigative Journalism: Latvia, the Diena Litigation and the European Court of Human Rights” in A. Charles (ed.), Media in the Enlarged Europe (Bristol: Intellect, 2009), 177-187.

“Depositary”, “Secret Treaties” and “Treaties, Registration and Publication” in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

“Legal Responses to People Trafficking: An Overview of the International and Regional Framework” in P. Downes (ed.), Human Trafficking in the Baltic States (Tallinn: Living for Tomorrow, 2008), 110-154.

“Biodiversity Loss and the Prospects for International Cooperation: EU Law and the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals” (2008) 8 Yearbook of European Environmental Law 218-264.

“The Prohibition on Driftnet Fishing in European Community Waters: Problems, Progress and Prospects” (2007) 13 Journal of International Maritime Law 265-288.

“By-Catch Mitigation and the Protection of Cetaceans: Recent Developments in EC Law”, (2005) 8 Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 241-259.

 “International Law and the Protection of Migratory Wildlife: An Appraisal of Twenty-Five Years of the Bonn Convention” (2005) 16 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 113-156.

Reports

Report on the Current Organisation of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals and Related Agreements: The Future Shape of CMS and the CMS Family (Nairobi: UNEP, 2009), 48pp (with R. Lee, B. Filgueira and L. Frater).

EC Law and the Baltic Harbour Porpoise: A Report to ASCOBANS 26pp (ASCOBANS, 2008); report commissioned as invited expert to the Fifteenth Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee in April 2008, also presented as an invited expert to the ASCOBANS Jastarnia Group in February 2008.

ASCOBANS: Progress and Prospects 26pp (WWF, 2006); report presented to the Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas in September 2006.

Forthcoming

 “Caught in the Net: Driftnet Fishing Restrictions and the European Court of Justice” (2010) Journal of Environmental Law.

Conferences convened

"New Uses of the Sea: International Shipping in the Twenty-First Century" (September 2010, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University).

Papers

"Dangerous Goods, The Rotterdam Rules and the Environment" (May 2010, Sixth European Colloquium on Maritime Law Research, Swansea University).

“The Interface and Implementation of Regional Management Regimes in the Conservation of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise” (March 2010, European Cetacean Society Annual Conference, Stralsund, Germany).

“New Adventures in Treaty Evolution: Modernizing the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling” (Invited lecture, November 2009 International Law Association, Cardiff University).

“The Marine Application of the Habitats Directive: Challenges and Opportunities” (Invited lecture, April 2009, Sea Mammal Research Unit, St. Andrews University).

“Protecting the ‘Responsible’ Journalist? Investigative Reporting and the English Judiciary” (October 2008, University of Bedforshire).

“The Conservation of Cetaceans under EC Law” (April 2008, Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North-East Atlantic and North Seas, UN Tower, Bonn Germany).

“EC Law and the Conservation of Migratory Species: Problems and Prospects” (March 2008, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester).

“The Role of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species in the Conservation of Whales” (February 2008, Symposium on Legal Aspects of Marine Biodiversity, University of Tromso, Norway).

“EU Law and the Trade in Endangered Species: Problems and Prospects” (January 2007, 9th International Wildlife Law Conference, Stetson University, Florida).

“The Case against the Resumption of Commercial Whaling” (November 2006, Symposium on Whaling, University of Reykjavík/Foreign Ministry of Iceland).

“From Whaling to Gnashing of Teeth: Reflections on Sixty Years of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling” (September 2006, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Keele University).

“Goodwin Plus Ten: The Disclosure of a Journalist’s Confidential Sources of Information” (March 2006, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Stirling).

“Reynolds Privilege and the Responsible Journalism Test” (September 2005, Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde).

“Driftnets and Cetaceans: EU Law and the By-Catch of Marine Mammals” (November 2004, 8th International Wildlife Law Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans).

Relevant Activities 

Member of the International Law Association, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Society of Legal Scholars, European Cetacean Society and the UK-Baltic Study Group. Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

PhD Supervision

I would welcome proposals or enquiries for research into international law, especially the law of the sea and international environmental law.

Current PhD student

Hattan Timraz, “The Implementation of Selected IMO Regimes within the Gulf Region”