CONTRIBUTOR:

Lowell Bautista

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Lecturer

DEPARTMENT:

School of Law

INSTITUTION:

University of Wollongong

BIOGRAPHY:

Lowell Bautista is Senior Lecturer and Head of Students at the School of Law and Staff Member at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong. Dr Bautista is recognised for his expertise in the law of the sea, particularly for his contributions in the area of territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia-Pacific, especially on the South China Sea. He has an established and solid track record of research publication and active research collaborations with government and academic institutions and scholars regionally and globally. He is a lawyer with over ten years of experience in legal and policy research, litigation and consultancy. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (cum laude) and a Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the Philippines, a Master of Laws (Marine and Environmental Law) degree from Dalhousie University in Canada and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in law from the University of Wollongong. His areas of research include territorial and maritime boundary issues in the Asia-Pacific, the South China Sea, Philippine maritime and territorial issues, maritime piracy and terrorism, international humanitarian law, underwater cultural heritage, and international environmental law, on which topics he has also published.