Malgosia A. Fitzmaurice (born 20 July 1955 as Małgorzata Lachs) is a Polish lawyer who is professor of

public international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

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. She is an international lawyer with a specialist interest in marine environmental matters, the law of treaties, and indigenous peoples.

Early life and education

Malgosia Fitzmaurice was born at

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

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on 20 July 1955 to

Manfred Lachs Manfred Lachs (21 April 1914 – 14 January 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who served as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and greatly influenced the development of international law after World War II. Life Lachs was born ...

. She studied Law at the

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, graduating in 1977. I.n 1980 she obtained her Ph.D at the same university, and became a member of the Polish Bar.

Career

In 2000, Fitzmaurice was appointed to the Professorship of International Law at Queen Mary University of London. She became The

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Professor of Marine Environmental Law at the

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in October 2012. She was elected to Associate membership of the Institut de Droit International in 2019. In 2021, Fitzmaurice was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking public research university in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, ...

Writing

* International Environmental Protection of the Baltic Sea (Martinus Nijhoff) * International Protection of the Environment (RCADI 2002) * Watercourse Cooperation in Northern Europe - A Model for the Future (with O.Elias) (TMC Asser Press 2004) * Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law (Edward Elgar 2009) * Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (with O. Elias) (Eleven Publishing 2005) * The International Protection of the Environment (RCADI 2002) * Whaling and International Law (Cambridge University Press 2015) * Whaling in Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment (with Dai Tamada as co-editor) (Brill/Nijhoff 2016) * Treaties in Motion: The Evolution of Treaties from Formation to Termination (with Panos Merkouris), published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

References

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