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Lowell Bautista

Lowell Bautista holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (cum laude) and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Laws (Marine and Environmental Law) degree from Dalhousie University in Canada. He also holds a Diploma from the Rhodes Academy of Ocean Law and Policy. Lowell Bautista is currently a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate on his last final year of study at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Lowell’s doctoral dissertation is entitled, “The Legal Status of the Philippine Treaty Limits and Territorial Water Claim in International Law: National and International Legal Perspectives” with supervisors Prof. Martin Tsamenyi and Dr. Clive Schofield.

Lowell Bautista is a practicing lawyer with several years of experience in legal and policy research, litigation, and consultancy. He was formerly Senior Legal Researcher, and Head of the Law of the Sea Program at the Institute of International Legal Studies (IILS) of the University of the Philippines Law Center, Associate Attorney at the Villanueva Gabionza and De Santos Law Offices, and Research Assistant at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University. His areas of research include international environmental law, maritime boundary delimitation, the South China Sea, maritime piracy and terrorism, Philippine maritime and territorial issues, underwater cultural heritage, and international humanitarian law, on which topics he has also published.

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