Professor Rosemary Rayfuse
LLB (Queen’s), LLM (Cantab.) (PhD (Utrecht)
Dr Rayfuse is a Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law where she is the Co-Director of the International Law and Policy Group and of the Climate Change Law and Policy Initiative. Professor Rayfuse has published widely on numerous aspects of public international law, in particular on the law of the sea and issues relating to high seas governance including the issues of sustainability, compliance and enforcement in high seas fisheries, and polar oceans governance. Her current research focuses on protection of the marine environment and the legal regime governing ocean fertilisation and other geo-engineering solutions to climate change, and on the impacts of mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change on non-climate specific multilateral, regional and sectoral regimes including the law of the sea, international environmental law, and the law on the use of force.
Professor Rayfuse is the founding editor of the ICSID Reports and the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, the Indian Society for International Law Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law, correspondent to the Editorial Board of the Netherlands International Law Review and on the Advisory Boards of the International Community Law Review and the Aegean Review of International Law. She is rapporteur on Fisheries and Marine Mammals for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law and Australian rapporteur for the Oxford Reports of International Law in Domestic Courts
Professor Rayfuse is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and the Co-chair of its working group on High Seas Governance. She is also a member of the Executive Council of the Australia and New Zealand Society for International Law, the International Law Association (Australia Branch), the Management Committee of the UNSW Centre for Refugee Research, the NSW Australian Red Cross Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee and the Australian Centre for Human Rights subcommittee on international law/international humanitarian law. She has been adviser to the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, the Australian and Canadian governments, the European Commission, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and numerous non-governmental organisations including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Australian and Canadian Red Cross societies, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and TRAFFIC Oceania.
Contacts: +61 (0)2 9385 2059 | r.rayfuse@unsw.edu.au