• Professor Jon Van Dyke – Professor, University of Hawaii School of Law
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  Jon M. Van Dyke has been Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1976, where he teaches Constitutional Law, International Law, International Ocean Law, and International Human Rights.  Professor Van Dyke’s most recent book is a co-authored casebook entitled International and Litigation in the U.S. (with Jordan J. Paust and Linda A. Malone, Thomson/West, 2nd ed. 2005), and his forthcoming book is a legal history of Hawaii’s lands entitled Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii? which is scheduled for publication by the University of Hawaii Press in the coming year.  He has written or edited seven other books, including  Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea (with Mark J. Valencia and Noel Ludwig, 1997), and Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony (with Durwood Zaelke and Grant Hewison, 1993).

  
  

• Captain Lincoln Stroh – U.S. Coast Guard
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Captain Stroh is the Deputy Commander at Sector Corpus Christi.  This summer he will take over as Commander, Sector New Orleans.  Some of his previous field assignments include Marine Safety Offices Portland, Jacksonville, Huntington and Corpus Christi. 

Captain Stroh is a 1983 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine Engineering with High Honors.  He earned two Master of Science Degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, one in Naval Architecture and the other in Polymers.  Captain Stroh also attended The Brookings Institution as a Federal Executive Fellow in 2003.

• Professor Luis Rodriguez-Rivera – Professor, School of Law, University of Puerto Rico

 

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Luis E. Rodríguez-Rivera, B.A., Yale University; J.D., Harvard Law School; LL.M., University of Cambridge.  He is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law and Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust.  Professor Rodríguez-Rivera teaches International Environmental Law, Environmental Law and Administrative Law, and has lectured at the University of Fribourg’s Faculty of Law, Switzerland, and the University of Barcelona, Spain.  He has also served as Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Solid Waste Authority.  Professor Rodríguez-Rivera’s recent scholarship has focused on the human right to environment and nuclear law.

• Professor Daniel Suman - Rosenthal School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

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  Daniel Suman holds a Ph.D. Degree in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. He has a M.Ed. in International Education and a Masters of Arts Degree in Comparative Education from Columbia University. He received his B.A. degree from Middlebury College in Chemistry. In addition, Suman has a J.D. and Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of California at Berkeley and a Certificate of Latin American Studies from Columbia University.   He currently is a Professor in the Division of Marine Affairs and Policy at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, as well as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law.  Suman’s primary research interests concern the establishment and implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).  He also collaborates on a number of Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) initiatives in several Latin American countries.