Coalter G Lathrop

• Senior Lecturing Fellow in International Law, Duke University

Coalter Lathrop holds a degree in marine policy from the University of Washington and a JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law from Duke University. He publishes and presents on the law of the sea, the Arctic, island sovereignty, and maritime boundaries; teaches Law of the Sea at Duke University; and has lectured at the Yeosu Academy for the Law of the Sea, the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea, and the International Boundaries Research Unit.

Lathrop directs Sovereign Geographic, an international law firm and cartography consultancy serving sovereign clients throughout the world. Over the last twenty-five years, Lathrop has acted as counsel and advisor in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and ad hoc tribunals on questions of territorial sovereignty, maritime delimitation, transboundary harm, and shared resources, and he has provided negotiating support and advice on related matters to governments and private interests in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America.

He also served as the rapporteur of the ILA Baselines Committee, is the current chair of the ABILA Law of the Sea Committee, was a founding co-chair of the ASIL Law of the Sea Interest Group, is a fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and is in his second decade as the editor of International Maritime Boundaries, an ASIL/Brill co-publication.

• –present Senior Lecturing Fellow in International Law, Duke University

• 2006 Duke University, LLM International and Comparative Law

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