Dr Camille Goodman

Associate Professor Camille Goodman joined the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in March 2021. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law, where she completed her PhD in January 2019, with support from the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation.

From 2005 to 2020, Camille worked at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, principally in the Office of International Law, providing legal and policy advice to the Australian Government on a wide range of public international law issues, with a particular focus on law of the sea and international fisheries law. From 2010 to 2012, she was seconded to the International Fisheries team at the Department of Agriculture. In these roles, Camille served as the Australian Government legal adviser at many international meetings, including the negotiation of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization and the Port State Measures Agreement, and at meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. She also managed international litigation before international courts and tribunals.

Camille is the Deputy Editor of the journal 'Ocean Development and International Law', and an active and long-standing member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for International Law (ANZSIL), where she established the Oceans and International Environmental Law Interest Group. Her first book, titled 'Coastal State Jurisdiction Over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone' was published by Oxford University Press in November 2021 and won the 2023 ANZSIL Book Prize.

Camille's research seeks to apply and develop the law of the sea to address policy-relevant challenges, particularly in the context of fisheries, offshore renewable energy, the causes and impacts of climate change, and the links between sustainable development and the law of the sea. She focuses on areas where uncertainty or ambiguity in the legal framework produces gaps or opportunities, and seek to find effective solutions that are firmly grounded in international law and improve outcomes for individuals, States, the international community, and the environment.