Aldo Chircop, JSD, is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Maritime Law and Policy (Tier I). Originally from Malta, since 1992 his home is Canada, based at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. His fields of research and teaching are Canadian maritime law, international maritime law and the law of the sea which he explores from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. He has advised several governments, international organizations, law firms and community organizations. Professor Chircop has published extensively as well as co-editing the Ocean Yearbook (Brill). His most recent book is Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, the Human Impacts and Regulation (Springer Polar Sciences, 2020; co-edited with Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta and Ronald Pelot). Professor Chircop is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society and chairs the International Working Group for Polar Shipping of the Comité Maritime International (CMI).