Phillip Saunders

Dalhousie University
Canada

Biography

Phillip Saunders Q C is an Associate Professor in Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. He was Dean of Law from 2005-2010 and Cross-appointed to the School for Resource and Environmental Studies. He has teaching and research interests in international marine and environmental law, maritime boundary delimitation and fisheries law. Formerly with the International Centre for Ocean Development as Senior Policy Advisor and Field Representative, South Pacific and has advised states on matters of international law and law of the sea in the South Pacific, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central America and Russia. He also acted as Counsel for Nova Scotia in the arbitration of the boundary between the offshore areas of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and as Commissioner for the Canada-Nova Scotia review of the Deep Panuke offshore project. Co-general Editor and Co-author of International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada (8th ed., 2014).