Dr. Ronan Long

Dr. Ronan Long
Dip. Law (NUI), B.C.L. (NUI), Ph.D. (Dub.), Dip (Rhodes Academy Oceans Law and Policy)

Manahan Law of the Sea Research Fellow

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email: ronan.j.longnuigalway.ie

Ronan Long read for his PhD in Trinity College Dublin. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European Commercial Law at the School Of Law in NUI, Galway and lectures EC Law, International Law, Planning and Environmental Law, Law of the Sea and European Fisheries Law. He has also lectured at the Rhodes Academy Oceans Law and Policy and is a supervisor of advanced academic research under the United Nations - The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme. In this capacity, he has worked with mid-career legal professionals from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.

He has written and co-edited five books, and contributes to the leading peer-review journals as well as international workshops/conferences on the law of the sea, ocean management, and the law and policy of the marine environment. His work has been cited by the European Commission, the United Nations Secretary-General in his annual report to the General Assembly on oceans and the law of the sea, and in legal proceedings in the superior courts in Ireland and the European Court of Justice. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law.

Prior to his academic career, he was a permanent staff member at the European Commission (1993-2000) and undertook over 40 missions on behalf of the European Institutions to the Member States of the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, Central America as well as to African countries. His responsibilities included representing the European Commission at European Council working groups and at several international fora as well as drafting EC regulations governing new satellite technologies for vessel monitoring systems. He contributed to the negotiation and monitoring of the bilateral fishery/trade agreements with Morocco and Mauritania.

Dr. Long is Research Director at the Marine Law and Ocean Policy Centre which is a cross-faculty initiative between participants from the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the Law School and Trinity College Dublin. He has participated on the European Union delegation at a number of international fora dealing with the law of the sea including the United Nations and is Ireland’s representative at UNESCO /IOC Advisory Body of Experts of the Law of the Sea. He acts as an adviser/consultant on oceans law and policy issues and provides commissioned work to a number of government departments, state agencies, foreign governments, the European Commission, as well as to public and private bodies including the OSPAR Commission, the International Hydrographic Organisation, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, and the North-Sea Regional Advisory Council.  As the Managing Director of an off-campus SME (www.marinelaw.ie) he is participating on an extra-mural basis in the ODEMM Project in conjunction with 11 European partners.

As a keen yachtsman, he has represented Ireland at the top competitive level in offshore racing, including spending a memorable year on board NCB Ireland in the work-up programme for the Round the World Race in 1989.

Monographs / Edited Works

• Legal Challenges in Maritime Security (with M. Nordquist, R. Wolfrum, J. Norton Moore) (Boston/Leiden, Nijhoff, 2008) pp. 559
• Law, Science and Ocean Management(with M. Nordquist, T. Heidar, J. Norton Moore) (Boston/Leiden, Nijhoff, 2007) 850 pp.
  • Foreword by President Mary McAleese
  • Review by Prof. Christopher Joyner
• Marine Resource Law (Dublin, Thomson Round Hall, 2007) 840 pp.
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  • Reviews
    • Ocean Yearbook
    • ICLQ
    • IJMCL
    • Review Marine Institute 
    • Ocean Development and International Law
• Enforcing the common fisheries policy, (with P. Curran)(Oxford, Blackwell Science, 2000) 370 pp.
  • Review from Fish & Fisheries, Blackwell Science (2002)
  • Online Resources Book

Other Publications & Conference Papers

• Download in PDF format (correct as of November 2010).

International Conferences Co-Chaired

• ICES International Symposium: Issues Confronting the Deep Sea, Horta Azores. April 27-30, 2009.
• Legal Challenges in Maritime Security, Heidelberg, Germany. May 2007.
• European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas, Murcia, Spain. September 25-28th, 2007. Co-sponsored under the PROTECT project.
• Law, Science and Ocean Management, Dublin Castle, Ireland. July 2006

Areas Of Research

• Regulating marine biodiscovery / scientific research
• Marine Resource Law and Policy
• European and International Fishery Law
• Law of the Sea
• European Maritime Policy
• Offshore Petroleum Law / Renewable Energy
• Foreshore

Academic Awards

• Scholar-in-Residence University of Virginia (2007)
• Marine Biodiscovery Fellowship NDP (2005-2007)
• Michael Manahan Fellowship (2003-2005)
• Academic Prize - Britannia Royal Naval College (1981)

International & European Research Projects

• HERMES
• PROTECT
• The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme

Post-Graduate Students

• Mr. Sei
• Mr. Izildo Ferreira
• Commander Mark Mellett DSM (graduated PhD 2009)
• Ms. Naomi Foley (PhD pending)
• Mr. Muhammad Nazmul Hoque
• Mr. Mang Hau Thang

Teaching Spring Semester 2010

• European Union Law
• Public International Law
• Law of the Sea
• Environmental Law

Student Evaluation of Teaching

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