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Profile
Millicent McCreath is a Scientia PhD Scholar at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Her research focusses on the marine environment, state responsibility, community interests and dispute settlement.
From 2017 to 2019 Millicent was a Research Associate with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at CIL. While at CIL Millicent worked on projects under a grant from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore relating to shipping and the protection of the marine environment, as well as other topics including climate change and the oceans, maritime boundary delimitation and dispute settlement under the law of the sea.
Prior to joining CIL Millicent was a judicial clerk at the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. Millicent has a BA majoring in Environmental Studies and an LLB (honours) from UNSW Sydney. She also has an LLM in International Law of the Sea from the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway. Millicent is admitted to practice as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia and completed her practical legal training in public interest environmental litigation. In 2017 Millicent received the prize for the best written exam at the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy.
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Research Interests
- Public International Law
- Law of the Sea
- International Environmental Law
- International Dispute Settlement
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Selected Publications
‘The potential for UNCLOS climate change litigation to achieve effective mitigation outcomes’ in J Lin and D Kysar (eds) Climate Change Litigation in Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (forthcoming).
‘Dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in the Atlantic Ocean (Ghana/Côte d’Ivoire): Implications for the Law of the Sea (2019) Ocean Development and International Law (forthcoming) (with Z Scanlon).
High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges (Brill 2018) (co-editor with R Beckman, JA Roach and Z Sun).
‘Report of the Conference on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Adapting the Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change’ (2018) 33(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 836-846.
‘Prospects for the future use of ITLOS ad hoc special chambers following the Ghana/Cote d’Ivoire Case’ (2018) 17(2) Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 309-334 (with Z Scanlon).
‘Challenges for the establishment of marine protected areas in response to Arctic shipping’ in L Hildebrand, L Brigham and T Johansson (eds) Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic (Springer, 2018), 297-322 (with L Brigham).
‘Burgeoning practice of Southeast Asian States to protect the marine environment from the effects of international shipping’ (2017) 2(2) Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy 268-295.
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Conference Presentations
‘The potential for UNCLOS climate change litigation to achieve effective mitigation outcomes’ in J Lin and D Kysar (eds) Climate Change Litigation in Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (forthcoming).
‘Enhancing compliance with shipping regulations for environmental protection in Antarctica’ (2020) 34 Ocean Yearbook (forthcoming).
‘Climate change, the Anthropocene and ocean law: Mapping the issues’ in J McDonald, J McGee and R Barnes (eds), Edward Elgar Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (Edward Elgar) (forthcoming) (with D Freestone).
‘Dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in the Atlantic Ocean (Ghana/Côte d’Ivoire): Implications for the Law of the Sea (2019) 50(1) Ocean Development and International Law 1-22 (with Z Scanlon).
High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges (Brill 2018) (co-editor with R Beckman, JA Roach and Z Sun).
‘Report of the Conference on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Adapting the Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change’ (2018) 33(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 836-846.
‘Prospects for the future use of ITLOS ad hoc special chambers following the Ghana/Cote d’Ivoire Case’ (2018) 17(2) The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 309-334 (with Z Scanlon).
‘Challenges for the establishment of marine protected areas in response to Arctic shipping’ in L Hildebrand, L Brigham and T Johansson (eds) Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic (Springer, 2018), 297-322 (with L Brigham).
‘Burgeoning practice of Southeast Asian States to protect the marine environment from the effects of international shipping’ (2017) 2(2) Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy 268-295.
