Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD

Full name: Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD

Prof. Shearer is a retired Professor of Law.  He is a Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee since 2001. He is also a Senior Member (Part-time) of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Australia. 

Professional affiliations: Prof. Shearer is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of South Australia and Victoria; Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; Practitioner, High Court of Australia;  President, International Law Association (Australian Branch) since 2004; Elected Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague; Arbitrator designated by Australia under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Summary of previous appointments:  Senior Lecturer, Reader in Law, University of Adelaide, 1964-1974; United Nations Development Programme, resident consultant on treaty succession to the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, 1971-72; Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford, 1978; Commonwealth Secretariat (London), rapporteur on the revision of Commonwealth extradition arrangements, 1980; Visiting Professor, Summer School in International Law, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1985; Dean, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, 1984-87, 88-90; Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1975-1993; Scholar-in-residence, International Legal Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, 1991; Challis Professor of International Law, University of Sydney, 1993-2003; Visiting appointment Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 2000-2001; Editor, Sydney Law Review, 2001-2003; Judge ad hoc, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg Germany, Southern Bluefin Tuna case (Australia and New Zealand v. Japan, 1999), and the Volga case (Russian Federation v. Australia, 2002); Member of the Arbitral Tribunal, Case Concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore In and Around the Straits of Johor (Malaysia v. Singapore) 2003-2005; Member of the Arbitral Tribunal, Maritime Delimitation between Guyana and Suriname, 2004- Royal Australian Navy Reserve, Legal Panel, 1974-2001 (ret’d with rank of Captain).