Dr Camille Goodman is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, where her research applies the law of the sea to address policy-relevant challenges with a focus on fisheries, offshore renewable energy, and the impacts of climate change. Camille teaches into a wide range of courses on the law of the sea, maritime regulation, fisheries and ocean governance, and is the convenor of the Women in Maritime Security Network, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Camille is also a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Sea Power Centre Australia. Prior to joining ANCORS in 2021, Camille worked at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department for 15 years, 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. She acted as the Australian Government legal adviser at international meetings and negotiations, and managed litigation before international courts and tribunals.

Camille undertook her doctoral research at the ANU College of Law between 2015 and 2018 as a Sir Roland Wilson Scholar, focusing on the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. While the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea clearly gives coastal States ‘sovereign rights’ to explore, exploit, conserve and manage the living resources of the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone, the nature and extent of these rights—and the way in which coastal States can employ them—is not well understood. Camille’s research addressed this gap, reviewing and analysing the practice of 145 coastal States to articulate and justify a contemporary statement regarding the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone. This research formed the basis of Camille’s first book, Coastal State Jurisdiction Over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, published by OUP in November 2021.

Visit Camille's University of Wollongong profile or get in touch with Camille directly at cgoodman@uow.edu.au

Supervisor: Professor Donald Rothwell

Publications

• Campbell B and Goodman C (2009) ‘Litigation against foreign States: the Foreign States Immunities Act 1985 (Cth)’, Judicial Officers’ Bulletin, 21(9):71-72.
• Goodman C (2009), ‘The Regime for Flag State Responsibility in International Fisheries Law - Effective Fact, Creative Fiction, or Further Work Required?’ Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 23:157-169.
• Goodman C (2013) ‘ “Strength through Cooperation”: A 21st Century Treaty for Multilateral Maritime Enforcement in the Pacific’ Australian Year Book of International Law, 31:12-39.
• Goodman C (2017) ‘Striking the right balance? Applying the jurisprudence of international tribunals to coastal state innovations in international fisheries governance’. Marine Policy, 84:293-299.
• Goodman C (2017) ‘Australian Jurisdiction and International Law’, in Crawford E and Rothwell D R (eds), International Law in Australia 3rd edition, Thomson Reuters, Sydney.
• Goodman C (2017) ‘The Cooperative Use of Coastal State Jurisdiction with Respect to Highly Migratory Stocks: Insights from the Western and Central Pacific Region’, in Martin L, Salonidis C, Hioureas C G, Laird I, Sabahi B and Whitesell A M (eds), Natural Resources and the Law of the Sea Exploration, Allocation, Exploitation of Natural Resources in Areas Under National Jurisdiction and Beyond, Juris, New York.
• Goodman C and Matley H (2018) ‘Law Beyond Boundaries: innovative mechanisms for the integrated management of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction’. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(1):402-404.
• Goodman, C (2018), ‘Rights, Obligations, Prohibitions: A Practical Guide to Understanding Judicial Decisions on Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone’. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 33(3):558-584.
• Goodman C (2019) The nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone [PhD Thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.
• Goodman C (2021) Coastal State Jurisdiction over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing Cooperative Responses by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations to Climate-Driven Redistribution of Tropical Pacific Tuna Stocks’, Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1046018.
• Goodman C (2022) ‘Winds of Change: Australia’s Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021’ Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, 7(1):37-150. doi: 10.1163/24519391-07010011.
• Goodman C, Davis R, Azmi K, Bell J D, Galland G, Gilman E, Haas B, Hanich Q, Lehodey P, Manarangi-Trott L, Nicol S, Obregon P, Pilling G, Senina I, Seto K and Tsamenyi M (2022) ‘Enhancing cooperative responses by regional fisheries management organisations to climate-driven redistribution of tropical Pacific tuna stocks’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2432.
• Wuwung L, Croft F, Benzaken D, Azmi K, Goodman C, Rambourg C and Voyer M (2022) ‘Global Blue Economy Governance: A Methodological Approach to Investigating Blue Economy Implementation’ Frontiers in Marine Science, Article 2388.
• Goodman C (2022) ‘The Lotus Case (France v Turkey) in Letts D and McLaughlin R (eds), Maritime Operations Law in Practice: Key Cases and Incidents, Routledge, London.
• Goodman C and Voyer M (2022), Submission to the Senate Environment and Communications Leglislation Committee Inquiry into the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2022, Australian Parliament House, Canberra.
• Goodman C (2023) ‘Compulsory Settlement of EEZ Fisheries Enforcement Disputes under UNCLOS: “Swallowing the Rule” or “Balancing the Equation”?’, Goettingen Journal of International Law 13(1):27-80.
• Anggadi C, Goodman C, Klein N and Rothwell D (2023), ‘Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea: Implications for the Customary International Law of the Sea’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):277-303.
• Goodman C (2023), ‘Harnessing the wind down under: applying the UNCLOS framework to the regulation of offshore wind by Australia and New Zealand’, Ocean Development and International Law, 54(3):253-276.
• Haas B, Goodman C, Hussain S and Davis R (2023), ‘Fact or Fiction? Unpacking the Terminologies used in Allocation Discussions’, Marine Policy, 152, Article 105630.
• Voyer M, Christopher T, Ahmed A, Carr C, Croft F, Davis A, Goodman C et al (2023), ‘Illawarra Offshore Wind Zone Proposal’, Submission to the Public Consultation, 4 October 2023 (University of Wollongong, Australia).
• C Goodman, R Davis, K Azmi et al ‘Preliminary Framework for Joint Management of Redistributed Tuna Stocks by WCPFC and IATTC’, GCF Study 8, Report for the Pacific Community (2023, ANCORS, Australia), https://www.greenclimate.fund/document/gcf-b41-02-add07 (Annex 26, Study 8).
• M Voyer, T Christopher, A Ahmed, C Carr, F Croft, A Davis, C Goodman et al, ‘Illawarra Offshore Wind Zone Proposal’, Submission to the Public Consultation, 4 October 2023 (University of Wollongong, Australia).
• C Goodman, ‘The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans by David Bosco’ (2023) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 1089-1091.
• M Conley Tyler and C Goodman, ‘IUU Fishing: There’s no one-size-fits-all solution’ DevPolicy Blog, 18 May 2023, https://devpolicy.org/iuu-fishing-theres-no-one-size-fits-all-solution-20230518/.
• F Anggadi and C Goodman, ‘Please Mind the Gap: A Venn Diagram Story of Method in International Law’ Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political, 31 January 2023, https://criticallegalthinking.com/2023/01/31/please-mind-the-gap-a-venn-diagram-story-of-method-in-international-law/.
• C Goodman, M Rosello and E van der Marel, ‘Innovating for change in global fisheries governance (again): an introduction’, (2024) 169 Marine Policy 106356.
• M Andriamahefazafy, B Haas, L Campling, F Le Manach, C Goodman et al, ‘Advancing tuna catch allocation negotiations: an analysis of sovereign rights and fisheries access arrangements’ 2024 3(1) Ocean Sustainability 16.
• C Goodman, ‘The South China Sea Arbitration: Jurisdiction, Admissibility, Procedure by Stefan Talmon’ (2024) 38 Ocean Yearbook 601-605.
• M Voyer, E Lee, F Croft, J Reeves, N Klocker, J Pascoe, C Goodman et al Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications Inquiry into the Offshore Wind Industry Consultation Process, 30 August 2024 (Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy).
• F Croft, M Voyer, D Ierodiaconou and C Goodman Improving decision-making in relation to offshore wind - priority knowledge and decision support needs. A report to the Australian Marine Conservation Society, March 2025 (Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy.
• C Goodman, ‘Coastal State jurisdiction and high seas freedoms in the EEZ: is the balance changing?’ in Suzanne Lalonde and Andrew Serdy (eds), Research Handbook on the Law of the Sea (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)
• C Goodman and V Schatz, ‘The Procedure for the Prompt Release of Vessels and Crews: Pragmatic? Predictable? Passé?’ in Suzanne Lalonde and Andrew Serdy (eds), Research Handbook on the Law of the Sea (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)
• C Goodman, ‘Exclusive Economic Zone’ and ‘Regional Fisheries Management Organizations’ in Donald Rothwell, Suzanne Lalonde, Jeffrey McGee and Evan Bloom (eds), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2025)