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Dr Rosemary Rayfuse is an Emeritus Scientia Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney, where she led the Public International Law programme in the Faculty of Law and Justice from 1994 to 2020. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and has held visiting and conjoint appointments at universities around the world. Prior to joining UNSW she was a Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, taught international law at the University of Cambridge, and practiced law in Vancouver, Canada. She holds the degrees of LLB from Queen's University, LLM from the University of Cambridge, PhD from the University of Utrecht, and a Doctor of Laws honoris causa (LLD h.c.) from Lund University.
Professor Rayfuse researches in the area of Public International Law in general and more specifically in the Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law. She has published widely on issues of ocean governance, protection of the marine environment in areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the normative effects of climate change on international law and has particular expertise in high seas fisheries, climate change and the ocean, and polar ocean governance. She is on the editorial or advisory boards of a number of international law journals, is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and Chair's Nominee on the International Law Association's Committee on International Law and Sea-Level Rise.
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