Meinhard Doelle Legacy Lecture Series

1 videos • 5 views • by Schulich Law This event is co-sponsored by the College of Sustainability and the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. To see other lectures from the College of Sustainability please visit https://vimeo.com/collegeofsustainabi.... Our friend, colleague and environmental law scholar, Dr. Meinhard Doelle (1964-2022) started his career as a law professor at Dalhousie University in 2003. He was also the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at the Schulich School of Law at the time of his passing. Professor Doelle’s research interests involved the intersection of environmental law, energy law and climate change. He served as drafter of the NS Environment Act and as policy advisor on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in 1992. From 2000 to 2006, he was a non-governmental member of the Canadian delegation to the UN climate change negotiations. He continued to follow the negotiations as an official observer. From January to May 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Center of the IUCN in Bonn, Germany. He co-chaired a strategic environmental assessment on tidal energy in the Bay of Fundy from 2007 to 2008 and served on the Lower Churchill Joint Federal-Provincial Review Panel from 2009 to 2011. In 2013 to 2014, Meinhard co-chaired a provincial panel on aquaculture, collaborating with colleague and friend Professor Bill Lahey. He was the Canadian Chair of Marine Environmental Protection at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, from 2019 to 2021. His teaching within the law school involved courses in environmental law, energy law, climate change, and contract law. He served as the Associate Dean (Research) from 2012 to 2017, and the Associate Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute from 2004 to 2012 and the Director from 2013 to 2016. He was also involved in interdisciplinary teaching outside the law school, most notably at the College of Sustainability, where he co-taught a course on Humanity in the Natural World. Throughout his time at the faculty of law, Meinhard was recognized by his colleagues for his knowledge, collegiality, kindness, and dedication to teaching and to students.