OBITUARY: John Robert Victor Prescott B.Sc., M.A., Dip.Ed. (Durham), Ph.D. (Lon.), M.A. (Melb.), FASSA, 1931-2018

After his retirement he consulted to foreign governments on maritime boundary cases and appeared before the International Court of Justice and the Supreme Court of the United States. First thing Monday morning, I went to his office, in one of the wonderful Victorian terrace houses on Barry Street. A...

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Published in:Globe (Melbourne) 2019-01 (85), p.62-74
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundaries
Election results
Exclusive economic zone
Geography
Government archives
Maritime law
Native peoples
Politics
State elections
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Summary:After his retirement he consulted to foreign governments on maritime boundary cases and appeared before the International Court of Justice and the Supreme Court of the United States. First thing Monday morning, I went to his office, in one of the wonderful Victorian terrace houses on Barry Street. Anyone: academic, government bureaucrat, field surveyor or layman could read and understand them, and know that the content was good. Besides a long list of books and journal articles and commissioned reports, he wrote full-page educational supplements for major broadsheet newspapers. PRESCOTT, J.R.V. & BIRD, Eric C.F. "The influence of rising sea levels on baselines from which national maritime claims are measured and an assessment of the possibility of applying Article 7(2) of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea to offset any retreat of the baseline", in C. Grundy-Warr (ed.), International boundaries and boundary conflict resolution:
ISSN:0311-3930