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Professor DUFF, JOHN A. (Boston)
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences

    Phone: (617) 287-7445
    Alt. Phone: 617-265-0254
    Email: John.Duff@umb.edu


**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**
Research Interests:
Professor Duff's research interests include law and policy implications of ocean and coastal resource management. His work includes, among other things, analyses of property interests in ocean space and marine resource use; “ocean zoning”; public resource management; and, offshore energy policy.



Education:
University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine
Ph.D. student, Public Policy and Management Program, Muskie School of Public Service, Present

University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
Master of Arts, 1997. Department of Journalism. GPA 4.00

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Master of Laws, 1995. Law and Marine Affairs.

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
Juris Doctor, 1990.

Nairobi International Law Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, May - July, 1989.

University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 1985. Magna Cum Laude
Minor in Mathematics/Computer Sciences



Professional History:
University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences

Senior Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute

University of Maine School of Law, Portland, Maine, 1999 - 2004
Associate Research Professor of Law & Director, Marine Law Institute

University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Mississippi, 1995 - 1999
Adjunct Instructor of Law and Director (1999), Mississippi - Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program

Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1998


Current Research Support:
Fisheries Saltonstall - Kennedy Grant Aquaculture/CWA/ESA Analysis $76,204 7/1/2003 - 12/31/2004

Maine Science and Technology Foundation Marine Connectivity Grant $90,000 7/1/2000 - 8/30/2003

Maine Sea Grant Seaweed Harvesting Legal and Regulatory Framework $10,490 2/1/2002 - 1/30/2004


Selected Publications:
Bolla, Johnston, McDorman and Duff, INTERNATIONAL OCEAN LAW: MATERIALS AND COMMENTARIES (Carolina Academic Press January 2005).

John A. Duff, Public Shoreline Access in Maine – A Citizen’s Guide to Ocean and Coastal Law, (monograph produced by Marine Law Institute; Maine Sea Grant College Program; and, University of Maine Cooperative Extension) (2004).

John A. Duff, A Note on the United States and the Law of the Sea: Looking Back and Moving Forward, 35 OCEAN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 195 - 219 (2004).

John A. Duff, Offshore Management Considerations: Law and Policy Questions Related to Fish, Oil and Wind, 31 B.C. ENV’L AFF. L. REV. 385 - 402 (2004).

John A. Duff, The Coastal Zone Management Act: Reverse Preemption or Contractual Federalism?, 6:1 OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW JOURNAL 109 - 118 (2001).

Prosser, Burrowes, Vestal and Duff, HARBOR MANAGEMENT: A LEGAL GUIDE FOR HARBOR MASTERS AND COASTAL OFFICIALS (2000 revised edition) (Maine State Planning Office & University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service).

John A. Duff, Royalty Relief Act Spurs Oil and Gas Exploration in Deep Waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in OCEAN YEARBOOK, VOLUME 14, 203 - 231 (University of Chicago Press 2000).

George V. Galdorisi and Kevin R. Vienna, Beyond the Law of the Sea: New Directions for U.S. Oceans Policy. Reviewed by John A. Duff, 30 OCEAN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 82 - 87(1999).

John A. Duff and Kristen Fletcher, Augmenting the Public Trust: The Secretary of State=s Efforts to Create a Public Trust Ecosystem Regime in Mississippi, 67 MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL 645 - 694 (Spring 1998).

John A. Duff and William C. Harrison, The Law, Policy, and Politics of Gillnet Restrictions in the State Waters of the Gulf of Mexico, 9 ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 389 - 417 (Winter 1997).

John A. Duff, Recent Applications of United States Laws to Conserve Marine Species Worldwide: Should Trade Sanctions Be Mandatory?, 2 OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW JOURNAL 1 - 31 (1996).

John A. Duff, UNCLOS and the Deep Seabed Mining Regime: The Risks of Refuting the Treaty, 19 SUFFOLK TRANSNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 1 - 66 (1995).