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Oct. 23 Marine Transportation Symposium honors Gerard Mangone

2:40 p.m., Oct. 20, 2003--The University of Delaware and its College of Marine Studies will hold a marine transportation symposium on Thursday, Oct. 23, to celebrate the renaming of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy in honor of Gerard J. Mangone, University Research Professor of International and Maritime Law and first director of the center. The symposium will be held in the Trabant University Center on the UD campus from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Gerard J. Mangone, University Research Professor of International and Maritime Law

The one-day symposium focuses on national and international policy issues affecting marine transportation. Marine transportation is generally recognized as one of the most economically significant and important uses of the world’s oceans. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 67 percent of the consumer goods purchased by Americans moves by way of ships. This number is expected to more than double in the next 20 years in response to a growing international trade.

The symposium will address trends in marine transportation, including implications of technological changes in vessels and ports. A variety of policy issues regarding marine transportation also will be addressed, such as safety in shipping, maritime security in ports and harbors and environmental issues such as ballast water discharges, invasive species and air pollution from ships. The symposium will conclude with a consideration of major issues in international and national maritime law and policy.

Robert Ostrom, chief counsel of the U.S. Maritime Administration, will deliver the morning keynote address and discuss his thoughts on the “Issues, Opportunities and Challenges in Marine Transportation.” Annick de Marffy, director of the United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea, will provide an overview of the accomplishments, prospects, and challenges served by the United Nations Law of the Sea in a keynote lunchtime address.

A reception for Dr. Mangone will be held in Bayard Sharp Hall, also on the UD campus, directly following the symposium, from 4:15–5:30 p.m. The reception will include the unveiling of a portrait of Mangone and a plaque that will officially rename the Center for the Study of Marine Policy as the “Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy.”

Mangone joined UD in 1972 as professor of marine studies and political science and organized the Marine Policy Program in the College of Marine Studies. In 1973, he created the Center for the Study of Marine Policy—the first research center at an American university to study the legal, political and economic issues facing the ocean, seabed and coastal zone and served as its director for 16 years. During that period, he also served for two years as the coordinator of graduate education at the University, substantively revising procedures for admission and evaluation of graduate students in all colleges.

In 1990, Mangone organized the Joint Diploma Program in Shipping and Port Management between UD’s College of Marine Studies and the Port of Singapore and, for seven years, served as the program’s director. And in 1999, he initiated a joint degree program with Widener University School of Law to give students the opportunity to obtain both a master’s degree in marine policy from UD and a law degree in reduced time.

While at Delaware, Mangone has taught nine different courses and supervised some 40 students in achieving a graduate degree. He has written 12 books, edited 25 others and contributed chapters to several other books. He currently is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law.

Mangone recently compiled and edited “Port Security for the United States and Trade and Shipping in the Pacific Rim.” And earlier this year, he published “The Legal Regime of the Turkish Straits,” which is the 13th book in his edited series “International Straits of the World.”

Mangone has been a consultant to the White House, the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations and other public agencies as well as the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1976, he was named H. Rodney Sharp Professor of International Law and Organization, and, in 1989, he earned the title of University Research Professor of International and Maritime Law. He received the prestigious Tagore Law Professorship at the University of Calcutta and the Francis Alison Award at the University of Delaware.

Even though Mangone reached official retirement age more than a decade ago, he maintains a busy schedule of graduate teaching, student advising and research. This year marks Mangone’s 54th year of university teaching, with more than 30 years at the University of Delaware.

Photo by Kathy Atkinson

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