"Contributors" [2013] ELECD 475; in Guilfoyle, Douglas (ed), "Modern Piracy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) vii

Book Title: Modern Piracy

Editor(s): Guilfoyle, Douglas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849804844

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contributors

Robert Beckman is the Director of the Centre for International Law
(CIL), a university-wide research centre at the National University of
Singapore (NUS) which was established in 2009. In addition to serving
as Director of the Centre, he also heads its ocean law and policy
programme and its research projects on the South China Sea and
International Maritime Crimes. Professor Beckman received his J.D.
from the University of Wisconsin and his LL.M. from Harvard Law
School. He is an Associate Professor at the NUS Faculty of Law, where
he has taught for more than 30 years. He currently teaches Ocean Law &
Policy in Asia and Public International Law at the NUS Faculty of Law.
Professor Beckman is an expert on the issues of law of the sea in
Southeast Asia, including piracy and maritime security. He served for
several years as a regional resource person in the workshops on Manag-
ing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea. He has represented
Singapore in various CSCAP meetings on maritime security, and has
worked for many years on the legal and policy issues relating to the
Straits of Malacca and Singapore. Professor Beckman lectures in the
summer diploma programme at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law &
Policy in Rhodes, Greece. Professor Beckman is also an Adjunct Senior
Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the S Rajaratnam School
of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University
(NTU).
Christian Bueger is lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff Univer-
sity. Before ...