Tara Maria 
DAVENPORT

 
Assistant Professor

Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law

Dr. Tara Davenport is Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL) at NUS. She has an LLB from the London School of Economics, an LLM in Maritime Law from NUS, an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School.

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Contact

(65) 6516-3619
FED-02-37

Education

JSD, LLM (Yale), LLM (Maritime Law) (NUS); LLB (London School of Economics); Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Principles of Property Law

Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice

Dr. Tara Davenport is Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL) at NUS. She has an LLB from the London School of Economics, an LLM in Maritime Law from NUS, an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School

She received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2013 and the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship in 2014. She is a qualified Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. Her current research interests are public international law, law of the sea and international dispute settlement. She has written on the South China Sea disputes, submarine cables and deep seabed mining. She is a member of the Legal Working Group on Liability for Environmental Harm from Activities in the Area convened by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority. She is also the Rapporteur for the International Law Association Study Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines.

Books
Neil Craik, Tara Davenport and Ruth Mackenzie, Liability for Environmental Harm to the Global Commons (Cambridge University Press 2023)

Edited Books
Tara Davenport and Nilufer Oral (eds), UNCLOS at 40: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Tommy Koh (NUS Press 2024)

Book Chapters
Tara Davenport, 'The Role of Meetings of States Parties to UNCLOS' in Tara Davenport and Nilufer Oral (eds), UNCLOS at 40: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Tommy Koh (NUS Press 2024) 38

Tara Davenport, 'Southeast Asia and seabed mining' in Virginie Tassin (ed), Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea (Routledge 2024) 333

Tara Davenport, 'Singapore and the Protection of the Marine Environment' in Tommy Koh, Lye Lin-Heng and Shawn Lum (eds), Peace with Nature (World Scientific 2023) 63

Tara Davenport, 'Differentiated Rights and Responsibilities in Activities in the Area – From Wealth Redistribution to Marine Environmental Protection' in Maarten den Heijer and Harmen van der Wilt (eds), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2020 (T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague 2022) 147

Tara Davenport, 'The Use of Cable Infrastructure for Intelligence Collection During Armed Conflict: Legality and Limits' in Russell Buchan and Asaf Lubin (eds), The Rights of Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict (NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence 2022) 181

Tara Davenport, 'The International Seabed Authority as Claimant for Damage to the Marine Environment Resulting from Activities in the Area' in Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera and Myron H. Nordquist (eds), The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part XI Regime and the International Seabed Authority: A Twenty-Five Year Journey (Brill | Nijhoff 2022) 234

Tara Davenport, 'Formal and Informal Lawmaking by the International Seabed Authority: An Artificial Distinction?' in Natalie Klein (ed), Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea (Oxford University Press 2022) 183

Tara Davenport, 'Formal and Informal Lawmaking by the International Seabed Authority: An Artificial Distinction?' in Natalie Klein (ed), Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea (Oxford University Press 2022) 183

Tara Davenport, 'Singapore and Law of the Sea' in Kevin Tan (ed), Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia (General Editor : Lee Seokwoo, Brill 2021)

Journal Articles

  • International Law
  • Law of the Sea
  • International Dispute Settlement
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