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The Alaska
World Affairs Council
Presents
Dr. Ted
McDorman
Faculty of Law
University of Victoria, B.C.
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Friday,
25th September 2009 – Hilton
Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. -
Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 23rd
September to the Alaska World
Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by
email to
AlaskaWorldAffairs.org
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Lunch Program $20 for
Members - $25 for
Non-Members - $6 for Coffee
Only
Professor McDorman joined
the Faculty of Law in 1985
and was promoted to
Professor in 2001. His
teaching areas include
public international law,
international trade law,
international ocean and
environmental law, and
private international law
(conflicts of law).
He taught Canadian
constitutional law for many
years and has also taught
Canadian environmental law
and comparative Asian law.
He has a cross-appointment
with the Department of
Geography and is an
Associate of the Centre for
Asia-Pacific Initiatives.
Professor McDorman has been
a visiting professor at
institutions in Thailand,
Sweden, the Netherlands and
Canada. He has over 100
publications in the areas of
ocean law and policy,
international trade law and
comparative constitutional
law. Since 2000, he has been
the editor-in-chief of Ocean
Development and
International Law: The
Journal of Marine Affairs.
He has undertaken a variety
of projects for the Food and
Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations,
including: the drafting of
legislation, conducting
workshops and report writing
on fisheries and fisheries
trade. He has also written
reports for the governments
of Canada, Quebec and
British Columbia.
From 2002 to 2004, Professor
McDorman was Academic-in-
Residence with the Bureau of
Legal Affairs of the
Department of Foreign
Affairs and International
Trade in Ottawa. In the
spring of 2007, he was the
Fulbright Visiting Chair in
Canada-U.S. Relations at the
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in
Washington, D.C.
For more information about
University of Victoria Law,
please visit their web site
at
http://www.law.uvic.ca/about.php
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