Felicity Attard
Dr. Felicity G. Attard is the author of the monograph ‘The Duty of the Shipmaster to Render Assistance at Sea under International Law’ published by Brill in its Queen Mary Studies in International Law series.She obtained her bachelor and doctor of laws degrees at the University of Malta. Her doctorate thesis dealt with the contribution of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to the international law regulating maritime security. She then read international maritime law at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), where she obtained an LL.M with distinction. Her thesis examined maritime security under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. She continued her studies at Queen Mary University of London, where she undertook a masters programme on research in law. She was awarded a first-class degree for her work on the smuggling of persons under the high seas regime. In 2019, she was awarded an IMLI PhD for her research on the duty to render assistance at sea under international law.Dr. Attard is an academic in the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, where she lectures in international law and the law of the sea. She has been a teaching assistant at Queen Mary, University of London. Dr. Attard has lectured on maritime law at Harvard Law School, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at the University of London, the IMO International Maritime Law Institute and the International Ocean Institute. She has been invited by international media including the BBC, Agence France-Press, and the National to speak on various issues such as migration by sea and maritime territory disputes.She has presented papers at a number of international conferences (United Kingdom, Malta, Italy, Cyprus, Georgia, and Brazil) and has published articles in learned journals, including Benedict’s Maritime Bulletin and the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.
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