Dr Charles H. Norchi

Charles H. Norchi is the Benjamin Thompson Professor of Law in the University of Maine School of Law where he is Director of the Center for Oceans Law and Founder of the Arctic Law Program. He is an expert in International Security and International Maritime & International Law, about which he is widely published and has lectured in forty-four countries. Norchi is co-chair of the International Institute for Law, Science and Policy in Geneva. Professor Norchi is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (RAS) for which he is the namesake of the RAS Afghanistan prize. He has worked as a journalist in Afghanistan, legal counsel to UN organizations and international companies, has studied in France and Switzerland, and holds degrees from Harvard University, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Yale Law School.