ProfessorTim Stephens

BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Sydney) MPhil (Cambridge) PhD (Sydney) FAAL FRSN

Dr Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law and Associate Dean (External Engagement) at the University of Sydney Law School. He teaches and researches in public international law, with his published work focussing on the international law of the sea, international environmental law and international dispute settlement.

Tim is an author or editor of 12 books. His major publications include The International Law of the Sea (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2010, 2016, 2023) co-authored with Donald R Rothwell, and International Courts and Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2015 to 2018.

He has been appointed, on the nomination of the Australian Government, to the List of Arbitrators under the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, and to the List of Experts under the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. He served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law from 2015 to 2019.

Tim holds a PhD in law from the University of Sydney, an M.Phil in geography from the University of Cambridge, and BA and LLB degrees (both with Honours) from the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 

For a complete list of Tim's publications please see ORCID.

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