Charles Norchi

Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law
Director, Center for Oceans & Coastal Law

Professor Charles Norchi
207.228.8016

300 Fore Street, Room 529
Portland, ME 04101

Education

A.B., Harvard University
J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
J.S.D., LL.M., Yale Law School

Current Courses

  • Arctic Law, Science and Policy
  • Doctorate I
  • Doctorate II
  • Doctorate Research Colloquium
  • Graduate Research Colloquium
  • International Human Rights
  • International Law
  • Maritime Law
  • Ocean & Coastal Law Journal
  • Oceans Law & Policy

Research Interests

  • Arctic Law and Climate Change
  • Law of the Sea
  • Public International Law
  • Policy Sciences

Charles H. Norchi is the Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law, director of the Center for Oceans & Coastal Law, and a faculty member of the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine. He teaches International Law, Oceans Law and Policy, International Human Rights, Maritime Law and Arctic Law, Science, and Policy.  His research interests are public international law, Arctic law and climate change, international law of the sea, and policy sciences.

Professor Norchi has served as chair of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS), the Fulbright-Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arctic Scholar in Iceland, as visiting professor at City University of Hong Kong School of Law and at Peking University School of Law, as human rights fellow at Harvard Law School, as research fellow in the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and as Myres S. McDougal Fellow at Yale Law School.  He is co-chair of the Arctic Futures Institute, a member of the American Polar Society, and serves on the Boards of the World Affairs Council of Maine, the Harvard Club in Maine, Journal of the North Atlantic and Arctic, and the International Association of Maritime Port Executives (IAMPE). He is a contributing editor of Global Geneva, and a fellow of the Explorers Club, the Royal Geographic Society, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the current president of the Society of Policy Scientists.

Professor Norchi holds an A.B. from Harvard College, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School, and an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School.

Selected Publications

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Water Tower in a Warming World, Global Geneva (with Paul A. Mayewski and Alexander More) (August 2021).

An Arctic Treaty in an Age of Contagion?, Journal of the North Atlantic and Arctic (June 2020). [JOANNA]

COVID-19 and Climate Change: The Planet's Twin Crises, Global Geneva (with Paul A. Mayewski) (May 2020). [GLOBAL GENEVA]

Law as Strategy: Thinking Below the State in Afghanistan, 95 INT’L L. STUD. 362 (2019).[PDF]

The Arctic: Law, Science, and Policy, 22 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 97 (2017) (with Paul Mayewski). [PDF]

The Arctic in the Public Order of the World Community, 22 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 5 (2017). [PDF]

 

Unlike Antarctica There is no Arctic Treaty, Journal of the North Atlantic and Arctic (2018). [JONAA]

Book Review: Stefan Talmon and Bing Bing Jia, eds., The South China Sea Arbitration: A Chinese Perspective, 29 OCEAN Y.B. 521 (2015).

Maritime Piracy and World Public Order, HUFS GLOB. L. REV., Aug. 2013, at 1.

The Extended Continental Shelf of the United States and International Law, in TECHNICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE REGIMES OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF AND THE AREA, (Zhiguo Gao et al. eds, 3d ed. 2013).

China and the Public Order of the Oceans, 17 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 197 (2012). [PDF]

PIRACY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: PROBLEMS, STRATEGIES, LAW (A. Pedone & Hart 2012) (edited with Gwenaelle Proutiere-Maulion). [Pedone]

Piracy and the Public Order of the Oceans, in Piracy in Comparative Perspective: Problems, Strategies, Law (Charles Norchi & Gwenaelle Proutiere-Maulion eds., A. Pedone & Hart 2012). [Pedone]

Introduction: The Deep Sea Horizon Incident, 16 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 245 (2011). [PDF]

Introduction: The Gulf of Maine Judgment at Twenty-Five, 15 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 177 (2010). [PDF]

Fixing a Fractured State: A Jurisprudence for a Free Society, 18 Asia Pac. L. REV. 95 (2010).

Culture and Law on the Durand Line: Continuity and Change, in CULTURAL CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT (William L. Asher & Jay M. Heffron eds., 2010). [Amazon]

When International Law Was Made in Maine: The Gulf of Maine Judgment at 25 Years, 10 ME. B. J. 16 (2010). [PDF]

Malta, Maine and Beyond: Trends in the Theory and Practice of Maritime Boundary Delimitation, in SERVING THE RULE OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR DAVID JOSEPH ATTARD (Norman L. Martinez Gutieerez ed., 2010). [Routledge]

Penser Sous l’Etat: Retour Philosophique sur le “Nation-Building,” TOME 52 ARCHIVES DE DROIT DU PHILOSOPHIE (2009).

The Public Order of Ports, 14 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 155 (2009). [PDF]

The Legal Architecture of Nation Building: An Introduction, 60 ME. L. REV. 281 (2008). [PDF]

Freedom and Servitude in the Public Order of the Oceans. A Review of Navigational Servitudes: Sources, Applications and Paradigms, 13 OCEAN & COASTAL L. J. 369 (2008). [PDF]

From Real Estate to Nation-State: Who Will Lead Afghanistan? 53 DISSENT 24 (2006).

AFGHANISTAN: CROSSLINES ESSENTIAL FIELD GUIDES TO HUMANITARIAN AND CONFLICT ZONES (2004, 2005, revised ed. 2006).

A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT (World Bank 2005).

Toward the Rule of Law in Afghanistan: The Constitutive Process, in BEYOND RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN: LESSONS FROM DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE (John D. Montgomery & Dennis A. Rondinelli eds., St. Martin’s Press 2004). [Amazon]

Human Rights: A Global Common Interest, in THE UNITED NATIONS: CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF A GLOBAL SOCIETY (Jean E. Krasno ed., Lynne Rienner Publishers 2004). [Amazon]

A TECHNICAL NOTE FOR VALUE-BASED PARTICIPATORY PLANNING, MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS (World Bank 2003).

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED NATIONS (Acad. Council on the United Nations 2003).

Challenging Sovereignty: India, TRIPS and the WTO, in SOVEREIGNTY UNDER CHALLENGE: HOW GOVERNMENTS RESPOND (Nathan Glazer & John D. Montgomery eds., Transaction Publishers 2002) (co-authored with Ulrich Camen). [Amazon]

Indigenous Knowledge as Intellectual Property, 33 J. POL’Y SCI. 387 (2001). [Springer]

Indigenous Knowledge as Intellectual Property, in SOCIAL CAPITAL AS A POLICY RESOURCE (John Montgomery & Alex Inkeles eds. 2000).

The Circum-Mediterranean: from Clashing Civilizations to Transnational Arbitration, in NAVAL STRATEGY AND POLICY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (John B. Hattendorf ed., Frank Cass Publishers 2000). [Amazon]

A Pivotal States Human Rights Strategy, in THE PIVOTAL STATES: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR U.S. POLICY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD (Robert Chase, Emily Hill, & Paul Kennedy eds, W.W. Norton & Co. 1998). [Amazon]

BLOWBACK FROM AFGHANISTAN: HISTORICAL ROOTS (Int’l Sec. Studies, Yale Univ. 1996).

From Stage to Stagehand: The Media in the Post-Cold War International System, in SOMALIA, RWANDA AND BEYOND: THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IN WARS AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES (Edward Girardet ed., Columbia Univ. Press 1995). [Amazon]

AFGHANISTAN AFTER THE SOVIETS: TIME, CULTURE AND CHAOS (Modern Asia Research Centre 1995).

Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era, SPAN, Sept. 1995.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MEDIA (Crosslines Publ’ns 1995).

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NEW AFGHAN WAR: A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: A PRELIMINARY REPORT (Int’l League for Human Rights 1994).

Afghanistan’s New War, CROSSLINES GLOBAL REP., March-April 1994.

Human Rights in Afghanistan, IN BRIEF, Oct. 1994, no. 58.

Accountability in the New World Order, CROSSLINES (1993).

The Decision Seminar as an Instrument of Power and Enlightenment, 14 POL. PSYCHOL. 575 (1993) (co-authored with Andrew Willard). [JSTOR]

Federal Extraterritoriality and Fifth Amendment Due Process, 105 HARV. L. REV. 1217 (1992) (co-authored with Lea Brilmayer). [PDF]

Professor Charles Norchi
207.228.8016

300 Fore Street, Room 529
Portland, ME 04101

Education

A.B., Harvard University
J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
J.S.D., LL.M., Yale Law School

Current Courses

  • Arctic Law, Science and Policy
  • Doctorate I
  • Doctorate II
  • Doctorate Research Colloquium
  • Graduate Research Colloquium
  • International Human Rights
  • International Law
  • Maritime Law
  • Ocean & Coastal Law Journal
  • Oceans Law & Policy

Research Interests

  • Arctic Law and Climate Change
  • Law of the Sea
  • Public International Law
  • Policy Sciences