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Betsy Baker

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Associate Professor and Senior Fellow for Oceans and Energy, Institute for Energy and the Environment

Dr. Jur., Christian-Albrechts-Universitatm, 2000;
LLM, Christian-Albrechts-Universitatm, 1994;
JD, University of Michigan, 1982;
BA, Northwestern University, 1978

Phone: 802-831-1270
Email: bbaker@vermontlaw.edu

Presentations

  • Canadian-U.S. Cooperation in the Beaufort Sea, International Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 26, 2010.
  • Mapping the Arctic Ocean: Law, Geophysics, and the Politics of Cooperation, Croft Center for International Studies, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, March 1, 2010.
  • Comparing Canadian Inuvialuit and Alaskan Inupiat Participation in Managing Marine Resources, Arctic Frontiers Annual Meeting, Tromsø, Norway, January 28, 2010.
  • From the Gulf of Maine to the Beaufort Sea: 25 Years of Change for Arctic Neighbours, "Shared Borders and Dividing Lines: A Century of Canada-U.S. Territorial and Boundary Disputes," Université de Montreal, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec, December 11, 2009.
  • Ecosystems and Arctic Boundaries, From the Gulf of Maine to the Beaufort Sea, 25th Anniversary Commemoration of the Gulf of Maine Maritime Boundary Delimitation, sponsored by University of Maine School of Law Marine Law Institute and the Marine and Environmental Law Institute of Dalhousie University, Prout's Neck, ME, November 14, 2009.
  • Governance and Arctic Shipping, "Considering a Roadmap Forward: The Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment," convened by University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Dartmouth College, and University of the Arctic, Fairbanks, AK, October 23, 2009.
  • International Ocean Law, Marine Scientific Research, and Intersections with National Legal Regimes, "International scientific collaboration and legal regimes in a changing Arctic Ocean," International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, September 21, 2009. Presentation available at www.iarc.uaf.edu/workshops/2009/4/baker.pdf.
  • State Sovereignty and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, 3rd Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, June 10, 2009.
  • Mapping for Advocacy-Using Marine Geophysical Data to Establish the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelves under the Convention on the Law of the Sea, with B. Coakley, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 17, 2008. Abstract # GC33B-0780available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFMGC33B0780C.
  • Science-Driven Cooperation and Policy: Addressing Canadian/U.S. Diplomatic Concerns in the Arctic, "The Law and Politics of Canadian Jurisdiction on the Arctic Ocean Seabed," Arctic Change 2008 Conference, in conjunction with the International Polar Year, Quebec City, Quebec, December 10, 2008.
  • The Development of International Courts and Tribunals in the 20th Century, panelist for "Manley O. Hudson: Progress in International Law," Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2008.