Tim Stephens

Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Stephens researches on international environmental law and the law of the sea.

Stephens was educated at St Aloysius' College, Sydney, and then at the University of Sydney where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. (Hons.) and a Ph.D. He read geography and took an M.Phil at St Johns College, Cambridge.

Stephens is a legal academic and commentator. Prior to taking up an academic appointment at the University of Sydney, he was Associate to the Hon Justice Arthur Emmett AO in the Federal Court of Australia. He has authored, co-authored or edited eight books, including International Courts and Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009). In 2010 he was awarded the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Junior Scholarship Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship and contributions in the field of international environmental law’. In 2014 he was appointed along with Professor Ivan Shearer (de) AM, on the nomination of the Australian Government, to the List of Experts for the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation.

• Saul, B., Stephens, T. (2015). Antarctica in International Law. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Rothwell, D., Oude Elferink, A., Scott, K., Stephens, T. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
• Butt, S., Lyster, R., Stephens, T. (2015). Climate Change and Forest Governance: Lessons from Indonesia. United Kingdom: Routledge.
• Stephens, T., VanderZwaag, D. (2014). Polar Oceans Governance in an Era of Environmental Change. Cheltenham & Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Saul, B., Sherwood, S., McAdam, J., Stephens, T., Slezak, J. (2012). Climate Change and Australia: Warming to the Global Challenge. Sydney: The Federation Press.
• Rothwell, D., Stephens, T. (Second Edition, 2016; First Edition, 2010). The International Law of the Sea. Oxford, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury / Hart Publishing.
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