Ian Townsend-Gault

Associate Professor of Law and Director, Southeast Asian Legal Studies

LL.B. University of Dundee 1976

Tel: 604.822.5637
Fax: 604.822.8108
E-mail: itgault@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: Allard Hall, room 349

Personal Web Page: European Union Law and Trade and Investment in the PRC

Profile

Ian Townsend-Gault has taught at universities in Britain and Norway, and also at Calgary and Dalhousie before coming to UBC in 1989. Professor Townsend-Gault teaches and researches in international law, especially marine resource law, maritime boundaries, maritime co-operation, and the protection of the marine environment. Professor Townsend-Gault has recently started to work on human rights and international justice issues. He has acted as a consultant to the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, and the international development agencies of Canada, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and has advised governments in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe on international legal issues. He has close links with universities and research institutions in countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Courses

• Perspectives - (International Perspectives)
• International Law
• International Law of Marine Resources
• European Union Law
• Topics in European Law and Integration
• Oil and Gas Law

Research Interests

• International Law of the Sea
• Maritime Co-operation
• Marine Environmental Protection
• International Law of Human Rights
• International Justice Issues

Representative Published Works

• Institutional and Legal Arrangements for maritime Security in the Asia-Pacific , forthcoming
• Holding the Line: Borders in a Borderless World , co-editor Heather Nicol, University of British Columbia Press(2004).
• "Maritime Boundary Delitationm in the Arabian Sea", in Schoifield et al, eds., "The Razor's Edge - International Boundaries and Political Geography", Kluwer law International , 2002.
• "Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea: Informal Diplomacy for Conflict Prevention", co-author Hasjim Djalal in Crocker, Hampson and Aall, eds., Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World , Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 1999.
• "Regimes for Managing Regional Seas and Oceans: The Use and Abuse of International Law", in Bateman, ed., Maritime Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Current Situation and Prospects, Canberra, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre , Australian National University, 1999.

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database