Professor Cameron Moore

Professor - School of Law

Cameron Moore

Phone: +61 2 6773 2850

Email: cmoore6@une.edu.au

Biography

Professor Cameron Moore is the Deputy Head of the School of Law at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. He also has an appointment at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong and is a visiting Associate Professor with the Centre for Military and Security Law and the Centre for Public and International Law at the Australian National University. His publications include the books Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea: Warships, States and the Use of Force (2021), Crown and Sword: Executive Power and the Use of Force by the Australian Defence Force (2017) and ADF on the Beat: A Legal Analysis of Offshore Enforcement by the ADF (2004), and other articles and chapters on the Australian Defence Force and maritime security. Between 1996 and 2003, Cameron was a Royal Australian Navy Legal Officer. Cameron is still an active Navy reservist, with the rank of Commander. He was also the Academic Master of Robb College at UNE in 2011 and 2012. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2015.

Qualifications

BA(Hons) (UWA), LLB (UNSW), LLM (JCU) PhD (ANU)

Legal Practitioner (ACT), Barrister and Solicitor (WA), Legal Practitioner (NSW), Solicitor and Barrister (High Court)

Teaching Areas

LAW318/LLM518: Law of the Sea

Primary Research Area/s

Maritime Security; Military Law; Public and International Law

Publications

Doctoral Thesis

2015 The Australian Defence Force and the Executive Power, ANU

Books

2021 Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea: Warships, States and the Use of Force (Routledge)

2017 Crown and Sword: Executive Power and the Use of Force by the Australian Defence Force (ANU Press) https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/crown-and-sword

2015 Natural Resources Law (a compilation of readings) (Thomson Reuters)

2005  (As contributing author) Future Environmental Policy Trends to 2020: Impact on Ship Design & Operations,
Edited by Glen Kerr and Barry Snushall (Centre for Maritime Policy, Wollongong and the RAN Sea Power Studies Centre, Canberra)

2004 ADF on the Beat: A Legal Analysis of Offshore Enforcement by the Australian Defence Force, (Ocean Publications, Wollongong)

Book Chapters

2019 'Structure of the Australian Defence Force' and 'Military Law and Executive Power' in Robin Creyke, Dale Stephens and Peter Sutherland (eds) Military Law in Australia (Federation Press, 2019)

2019  ‘The Potential Application of the Maritime Powers Act 2013 to Armed Conflicts at Sea’ in Dale Stephens and Matthew Stubbs (eds), The Law of Naval Warfare (Lexis Nexis) with Lieutenant Commander Ali Schaeffer RAN and  Lieutenant Tim Quaddrio RAN

2015 ‘Waterworld: Climate Change, Statehood and the Right to Self Determination’ in Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective (Routledge, UK) edited by Ottavio Quirico and Mouloud Bhoumgar, 104

2015 ‘Use of Force in Maritime Regulation and Enforcement’ in the International Research Handbook on Maritime Regulation and Enforcement (Routledge, UK) edited by Robin Warner and Stuart Kaye, 27

2011 ‘Maritime Regulation and Enforcement’ in Australian Coastal and Marine Law (Federation Press) edited by Rachel Baird and Donald Rothwell, 322

2011 ‘Piracy and the Use of Force in Australian Law’ in Australia’s Response to Piracy: A Legal Perspective (Sea Power Centre Australia) edited by Andrew Forbes, 87

2009 ‘Act of State Doctrine in the Antipodes: The Intersection of National and International Law in Naval Constabulary Operations’ in Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand (Routledge, UK) edited by Natalie Klein, Joanna Mossop and Donald R. Rothwell, 172

2009 ‘Australia’s Traditional Maritime Security Concerns and post-9/11 Perspectives’ with Donald R. Rothwell in Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand (Routledge, UK) edited by Natalie Klein, Joanna Mossop and Donald R. Rothwell, 37

2005 (As contributing author) Future Environmental Policy Trends to 2020: Impact on Ship Design & Operations, Edited by Glen Kerr and Barry Snushall (Centre for Maritime Policy, Wollongong and the RAN Sea Power Studies Centre, Canberra)

2002 Book chapter – ‘Protecting Australia’s Maritime Borders: The Operational Aspects’ with Commodore Warwick Gately Protecting Australia’s Maritime Borders (University of Wollongong) 37

Refereed Articles

2021 ‘The Myall Creek Massacre as Part of a Broader War: War and the Common Law of the Nineteenth Century’ 9(1) International Journal of Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Law and Policy 2021, ‘The Defence Strategic Update, Maritime Strategy and The Law’ 2 Australian Naval Review 2020, 55

2017 ‘The Arbitral Award in the Matter of the South China Sea between the Philippines and China - the Use of Force and Freedom of Navigation’ 2 Asia Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy 117

2012 ‘Great Big Hairy Bees: The Proposed Importation of the European  Bumblebee and the Precautionary Principle’ with Professor Caroline Gross, International Journal of Rural Law and Policy – Occasional Paper Series

2010 Book Review – “‘Calling out the Troops’ by Michael Head” 33(3) Melbourne University Law Review 1022

2009 Case comment - ‘White v Director of Military Prosecutions [2007]’ 4(2) University of New England Law Journal 53

2008 ‘Militaries as Wielders of Executive Power: The Australasian and Melanesian Militaries and their Formal Relationship with Government’ 8 New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 21

2006 ‘Turning King Canute into Lord Neptune: Australia’s New Offshore Protection Measures’ 3(1) University of New England Law Journal 57

2005 ‘“To Execute and Maintain the Laws of the Commonwealth”

The ADF and Internal Security - Some Old Issues with New Relevance’ 28(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 523

Reference Works

2009, 2013 & 2017  Oxford Australian Legal Dictionary (1st and 2nd eds) - 19 entries on maritime and constitutional law

2009 (Revised Edition) Lexis Nexis, Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 21(2) (at 12 October 2009) 330 Primary Industry, ‘Fisheries’

Other Articles

2017 Book Review of (Cambridge, 2016) by Alison Duxbury and Matthew Groves (eds) (2016) 20 Journal of International Peacekeeping 303


2016 ‘The War Powers Debate: The Governor-General as Commander in Chief’ The Strategist
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 29 August 2016

2013 Book Review ‘The Causes of War: Volume I: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE by Alexander Gillespie’ 11 New Zealand Year Book of International Law 335

2010 Book Review – ‘Calling Out the Troops by Michael Head’ 7(2) Journal of Australian Naval History 108

2009 ‘Australian Defence Force Operations’ with Captain Rob McLaughlin RAN 9 New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 172

2008 ‘Australian Defence Force Operations’ with Colonel Jim Waddell and Commander Rob McLaughlin RAN 8 New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 147

2003 ‘Legal Issues in the Design of Future Warships’ with Lieutenant Commander Chris Galloway, 107 Journal of the Australian Naval Institute

2003 ‘Legal Issues Surrounding an Australian Coastguard’ 28(2) Journal of the Australian Naval Institute

Other

2018 Report for the UNODC - Maritime Crime in the Sulu and Celebes Seas Region 2013 – 2018

2017 Assisted in developing the Guidelines for the Application of Common Operating Principles during Maritime Interactions between Claimant States in the Vicinity of the Spratly Islands
for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva and Singapore

2017 Co-editor – UNODC Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners

2017 Assisted in editing Beyond the Point of No Return: The Accidental Refugee: The Fighter Pilot from Eastern Europe by Colin Boresch (with Miriam Verbeek) (University of New England, 2017)

2016 ‘Notes on the Role of the Governor-General’ in Tony Kevin (Rapporteur) Report of the Australians for War Powers Reform Public Seminar: Legislating Reform of the War Powers

2013 Co-Editor – ‘REDD + Edition’ of the International Journal of Rural Law and Policy

2013  Gaggioli, G., Abbott, K., Libman, L., Ling, Y., Lubell, N., Momtaz, D., Moore, C., Nasrallah, M., Piedra Buena, C., Salmon, E., Report of Expert Meeting: The Use of Force in Armed Conflicts: Interplay Between the Conduct of Hostilities and Law Enforcement Paradigms. (Geneva: International Committee of the Red Cross),

2010 & 2015 Revised edition of the ADF Manual Australia’s Maritime Jurisdiction

2009 Submission to the National Human Rights Consultation on the ‘ADF and Human Rights’

2005 Contributing author - Joint Offshore Protection Command Legislation Study Report

Memberships

Visiting Associate Professor
College of Law - Australian National University

Honorary Principal Research Fellow
Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and National Security - University of Wollongong

Commander, Legal Officer:  Royal Australian Navy Reserve

Fellow:  Royal Geographical Society

Editorial Board Member:  Australian Journal for Ocean and Maritime Affairs

Editorial Board Member:  International Journal of Rural Law and Policy

Member:  Australian Naval Institute

Member:  International Society for Military Law and the Law of War