David M. Ong is Professor of International and Environmental Law at Nottingham Trent University, UK where he is also the founding Course Director of the LLM Degree in Oil, Gas & Mining (OGM) Law. His main research interests are in 1) the International Law of the Sea, particularly on offshore joint development, published in the American Journal of International Law (1999) and Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, 2000 (2001); 2) International Environmental Law published in European Journal of International Law (2001), Irish Yearbook of International Law, 2006 (2008), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 2006 (2008), and 3) International Investment & Development Finance Law, Nordic Journal of International Law (2010 & 2016), Netherlands International Law Review (2011), International Journal of Law in Context (2015) and more recently in the Journal of International Economic Law (2017) and Tulane Journal of Environmental Law (2017), as well as many edited volumes of essays, four of which he has co-edited. Recognition of his international profile is evidenced inter alia through the recent invitation (in January, 2019) to join a newly-established International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on Asian State Practice of the Domestic Implementation of International Law as Rapporteur on the ‘Environment’. This serves to confirm David’s growing profile as one of the foremost Asian international law academics working in the UK and Europe.
