Bernard Oxman, the Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law, recently was the featured lecturer at Berkeley Law School, where he spoke about the newly adopted, historic High Seas Treaty, also known as the agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction. The Harry and Jane Scheiber Lecture brings leading experts and jurists to discuss vital aspects of and issues within the field of ocean law and policy.
At Miami Law, Oxman teaches conflict of law, international law, law of the sea, and torts. He is currently the faculty chair of the law school’s Master of Laws Program in Maritime Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Berkeley, Paris, and Stanford.
Oxman served as United States Representative to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and chaired the English Language Group of the Conference Drafting Committee that prepared the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which there are now 168 states parties. He also served as co-editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law and vice-president of the American Society of International Law. He is the only American ever appointed to serve as judge ad hoc of both the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, to which he was recently appointed in that capacity for the third time. He has also served as a member of the tribunal as well as counsel in various international arbitrations and proceedings between states as well as private parties.
