09/10/2026
Congratulations and best wishes to Schulich School of Law Professor Dr. Aldo Chircop (LLM ’84, JSD ’88) on his recent retirement after 34 years of service.
Chircop joined Dalhousie University in 1992 with a joint appointment as Marine Affairs Program director. He taught maritime law and the law of the sea, among other Marine & Environmental Law Program and core law courses and supervised many graduate students.
In addition to his teaching and research, he was also director and associate director of the law school’s Marine & Environmental Law Institute, was the Canada Research Chair in Maritime Law and Policy (Tier 1), and the Canadian Chair in Marine Environmental Protection at the IMO-World Maritime University in Sweden while on leave from Dalhousie.
Leading numerous grant-funded projects, Chircop’s publications include books, articles, and chapters, as well as 25 co-edited volumes of the Ocean Yearbook; his Maritime Law opus won the Walter Owen Book Prize. He was also a visiting professor at several overseas universities and a valuable contributor to the work of UN agencies, NGOs, and the Comité Maritime International.
As he begins this new chapter, the Weldon community extends its deep gratitude to Chircop for his many years of dedicated scholarship and leadership.
