1700 Registration
1800-2000 Welcome Reception
Thursday, May 23, 2002
0900 Registration and Coffee
0930 Welcome Remarks
Professor Gustaf Lindencrona
President, Stockholm University
Professor John Norton Moore
Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy
University of Virginia School of Law
Professor Said Mahmoudi
Faculty of Law, Stockholm University
1000 Opening Comments
H.E. Hans Blix
Former Swedish Foreign Minister
History of Stockholm Declaration
1030 Break
1100 Panel I: Impact of the Stockholm Declaration on International Environmental Law Principles
Moderator: Professor John Norton Moore
Professor Patricia Birnie
University of London
Impact for the Development of International Law of Cooperation:
UNCLOS, Straddling Stocks and Biodiversity Conventions
Professor Jutta Brunnée
University of Toronto
Structure and Process of International Environmental Law
Professor Alexandre Charles Kiss
University of Strasbourg
The Destiny of the Principles of the Stockholm Declaration
1230 Lunch Break
1330 Panel II: Impact of the Stockholm Declaration on International Environmental Institutions
Moderator: H.E. David Anderson, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Professor Alan Boyle
University of Edinburgh
WTO and UNCLOS
Professor David Freestone
World Bank
Role of the World Bank in the Marine Environment Area
Professor Geir Ulfstein
University of Oslo
The Marine Environment and International Environmental Governance
Ambassador Mary Beth West
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Oceans & Fisheries
U.S. Department of State
International Challenges in Addressing Marine Environmental Problems
1500 Break
1530 Panel III: Regional Protection of the Marine Environment
Moderator: H.E. Tullio Treves, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Professor Jonas Ebbesson
Stockholm University
Baltic Sea Area
Mr. William R. Edeson
Senior Legal Officer, FAO
Hard and Soft Law Solutions to Future Fisheries Problems
Professor Rainer Lagoni
University of Hamburg
Regional Protection of the Marine Environment in the North Sea under the OSPAR Convention of 1992
Dr. Alexander Skaridov
Russia Association of International Law
Polar Seas
1700 Adjourn
Friday, May 24, 2002
0930 Panel IV: Marine Environment in Enclosed and Semi-Enclosed Seas
Moderator: H.E. Anatoly Kolodkin, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Dr. Maria Gavouneli
Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law
Mediterranean Sea
Professor Nilufer Oral
Bilgi University
Black Sea
Dr. Sergei Vinogradov
Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy University of Dundee
Sustainable Use of the Caspian Natural Resources: How Feasible Is It?
Professor Igor Vio
University of Rijeka Faculty of Maritime Studies
Adriatic Sea
1100 Break
1130 Panel V: Marine Environment Jurisdictional Issues
Moderator: H.E. Choon Ho Park, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Professor Erik Franckx
Free University of Brussels
Coastal States
Professor Kari Hakapää
University of Lapland
Jurisdictional Developments and Law of the Sea Convention
Dr. Marie Jacobsson
Senior Legal Adviser Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Flag State Perspectives
Mr. J. Ashley Roach
Office of the Legal Adviser
U.S. Department of State
Particularly
Sensitive Sea Areas
1300 Lunch Break
1400 Panel VI: Science and the Marine Environment
Moderator: H.E. Dolliver Nelson, Judge, Vice-President International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Mr. Bertil Hägerhäll
Krav
NGO Perspectives
Professor Carl Folke
Stockholm University, Sweden
Dr. Bayram Öztürk
Turkish Marine Research Foundation
Aegean Sea
Mr. George Taft
Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Science and Continental Margins
1530 Adjourn
Saturday, May 25, 2002
0930 Panel VII: Sustainable Development and the Marine Environment
Moderator: H.E. Satya N. Nandan, Secretary-General International Seabed Authority
Mr. Ray Gambell
Former Secretary of the International Whaling Commission
Moratorium or Management
Professor Moritaka Hayashi
Waseda University School of Law
Three Decades’ Progress in High Seas Fisheries Governance
Mr. Kolbeinn Arnason
Head of Department Ministry of Fisheries of Iceland
Mr. Dick Monroe
Darden Environmental Trust
Replacing Bias with Reality to Achieve Stockholm’s Dream of a Poverty and Pollution Free World
1100 Lunch
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Bjorn Lomborg, University of Aarhus
Skeptical Environmentalist
1315 Panel VIII: Future Developments
Moderator: H.E. Alexander Yankov, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Dr. Rosalie Balkin
Director, IMO Legal and External Affairs
New Developments in Compensation
Professor Günther Handl
Tulane Law School
Protecting the Marine Environment: The End of Unilateralism?
Professor Ellen Hey
Faculty of Law, University of Rotterdam
Marine Environmental Rules as both Norm and Process
1445 Closing Remarks
Professor John Norton Moore
Professor Said Mahmoudi
1900 Gala Reception and Dinner (Opera Källaren)
Keynote Speaker:
H.E. Hans Corell
Under Secretary General of Legal Affairs, United Nations