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Millicent McCreath

Millicent McCreath

Postgraduate Research Student
LLM (Law of the Sea), University of Tromsø, GDLP, ANU, LLB (Hons), UNSW, BA (Environmental Studies), UNSW

Scientia PhD Candidate, Teaching Fellow

Millicent is a Scientia PhD candidate at UNSW Law. Her doctoral research is focussed on the protection of the marine environment, state responsibility, community interests and dispute settlement.

From 2017 to 2019 Millicent was a Research Associate with the Oceans Law and Policy Programme at the National University of Singapore Centre for International Law, where she remains affiliated as a Global Associate. While in Singapore Millicent conducted research on a broad range of law of the sea issues, with a particular focus on issues of relevance to the Asia-Pacific. In 2016 Millicent was Tipstaff (judicial clerk) to Justice Pain of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, and is admitted to practice as a solicitor in New South Wales.

Millicent holds the degrees of BA (Environmental Studies) and LLB (Hons) from UNSW and LLM (Law of the Sea) from the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway. She attended the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy in 2017 where she was awarded the prize for the best written exam.

Areas of research

Law of the Sea, Public International Law, International Dispute Settlement, International Environmental Law

Supervisors

Rosemary Rayfuse, Natalie Klein, Jonathan Bonnitcha

Publications

  • N Klein and M McCreath, ‘Resolving international disputes concerning the marine environment’ in R Rayfuse, A Jaeckel and N Klein (eds), Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (2nd edn, Edward Elgar 2023) 124-149
  • V Schatz and M McCreath, ‘EEZ-adjacent distant-water fishing as a global security challenge: An international law perspective’ (Hybrid CoE Working Paper 19, September 2022)
  • M McCreath, ‘Community Interests and the Protection of the Marine Environment Within National Jurisdiction’ (2021) 70 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 569-603
  • M McCreath, ‘Enhancing compliance with shipping regulations for environmental protection in Antarctica’ (2020) 34 Ocean Yearbook 461-488
  • M McCreath, ‘The potential for UNCLOS climate change litigation to achieve effective mitigation outcomes’ in J Lin and D Kysar (eds), Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press 2020) 120-143
  • D Freestone and M McCreath, ‘Climate change, the Anthropocene and ocean law: Mapping the issues’ in J McDonald, J McGee and R Barnes (eds), Edward Elgar Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (Edward Elgar 2020) 49-80
  • M McCreath, ‘Enhancing compliance with shipping regulations for environmental protection in Antarctica’ (2020) 34 Ocean Yearbook 461-488
  • M McCreath and Z Scanlon, ‘Dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in the Atlantic Ocean (Ghana/Côte d’Ivoire): Implications for the Law of the Sea’ (2019) 50(1) Ocean Development and International Law 1-22
  • M McCreath and Amber Maggio, ‘Introduction: Climate change and the law of the sea: Adapting the law of the sea to address the challenges of climate change’ (2019) 34(3) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 387-390
  • R Beckman, M McCreath, JA Roach and Z Sun (eds), High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges (Brill 2018)
  • M McCreath and Z Scanlon, ‘Prospects for the future use of ITLOS ad hoc special chambers following the Ghana/Cote d’Ivoire Case’ (2018) 17(2) Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 309-334
  • M McCreath, ‘Report of the Conference on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Adapting the Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change’ (2018) 33(4) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 836-846
  • M McCreath and L Brigham, ‘Challenges for the establishment of marine protected areas in response to Arctic marine operations and shipping’ in L Hildebrand, L Brigham and T Johansson (eds), Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic (Springer 2018) 297-322)
  • M McCreath, ‘Burgeoning practice of Southeast Asian States to protect the marine environment from the effects of international shipping’ (2017) 2(2) Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy 268-295

Presentations

  • ‘Are Advisory Opinions Fair? ITLOS Advisory Opinions and the Furtherance of the Community Interest in the Protection of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction’, presented at the European Society of International Law Annual Conference, Law of the Sea Interest Group Workshop, Aix-en-Provence, France, 30/08/2023
  • ‘Community Interests in the Protection of the Marine Environment Within National Jurisdiction’, presented at the Utrecht University Public International Law Research Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 25/05/2023
  • 'Community Interests in the Protection of the Marine Environment Within National Jurisdiction’, presented at the 6th UCL-KCL Doctoral Symposium on Environmental Law, King’s College London, London, UK, 19/05/2023
  • ‘Advisory Opinions under the BBNJ Agreement and the Protection of Community Interests’, presented at the Online Webinar: Dispute Settlement under the BBNJ Agreement hosted by Utrecht University, 02/05/2023
  • ‘Whose Interests/What Interests Should be Served by International Courts and Tribunals in Deciding Disputes on the Merits?’, presented at the conference UNCLOS at 40: The Contribution of the Judiciary and Judicial Jurisdiction, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, online, 02/05/2022
  • ‘EEZ-adjacent Distant Water Fishing as a Global Security Challenge: An International Law Perspective’, presented at the European Society of International Law Research Forum, online, 22/07/2021 (with Valentin Schatz)
  • ‘Applying international marine environment protection obligations within national jurisdiction’, presented at the ILA Australia Early Career Panel on ‘Intersections of International Environmental Law with National Jurisdictions’ (online), 22/07/21
  • ‘Applying international marine environment and biodiversity protection obligations within national jurisdiction’, presented at the Global Dialogue on Biodiversity Law and Governance (online), 6-8/07/21
  • ‘Coastal state obligations to protect the marine environment within national jurisdiction’, presented at the ANZSIL Oceans and International Environmental Law Interest Group Workshop (online), 15/04/21
  • ‘The development of community interests in the protection of the marine environment’, presented at the ANZSIL Postgraduate Workshop (online), 02/12/20
  • ‘Community interests and the protection of the marine environment under national jurisdiction: Methodology aspects’, presented at the UNSW Law HDR Work in Progress Session (online), 12/08/20
  • ‘Community interests and the protection of the marine environment under national jurisdiction’, presented to the UNSW Law Environmental Law Group (online), 27/05/20
  • 'International legal framework for cooperation in East and Southeast Asia on the reduction of marine plastic pollution from land-based sources', presented at the Asian Society of International Law Regional Conference, Beijing, 13-14/10/18
  • 'Request for an advisory opinion from ITLOS on the content of climate change obligations in UNCLOS on behalf of Pacific Ocean small island developing states’ presented at the International Law Association 78th Biennial Conference, Sydney, 18-24/08/18
  • 'The potential for UNCLOS climate change litigation to achieve effective mitigation outcomes', presented at National University of Singapore – Yale Climate Change Litigation Scholarship Workshop, Singapore, 7-8/06/18
  • 'Standing and State responsibility for breaches of UNCLOS environmental obligations: Access to compulsory binding procedures for marine pollution from land or international watercourses', poster presented at A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, Luxembourg, 25-26/09/17
  • 'Coastal State measures for environmental protection affecting transit passage and archipelagic sea lanes passage', presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Emerging Voices Panel, Seoul, 26/08/17
  • 'Coastal State measures for environmental protection affecting transit passage and archipelagic sea lanes passage', presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Junior Scholars’ Workshop, Seoul, 24/08/17
  • 'Burgeoning practice of Southeast Asian states to protect the marine environment from the effects of international shipping', presented at the 14th Asian Law Institute Conference, Manila, 18-19/05/17