Adam Soliman is the director of The Fisheries Law Centre. He is a researcher focused on legal and economic issues in Fisheries. He teaches fisheries law in several countries and advocates for further access to justice in small-scale fisheries. He researches and conducts analysis to issues in fisheries management with special focus on small-scale fisheries. He specializes in fisheries management scheme and property rights particularly in catch shares and other management schemes. He started his career in the agribusiness sector, working for a family operation in the Middle East. He holds a BSc and MSc. in Agricultural Economics. He also had Juris Doctorate from the University of Hong Kong and a LLM in Agriculture and Food Law from the University of Arkansas. Adam Soliman asserts the importance of including fisheries law in law school curriculums. He describes the access to justice gap in fisheries and coastal communities as three intertwined issues: lack of education; lack of legal research and lack of advocacy.
Academic publications
Ecoterrorism and the Reinterpretation of Piracy: The Sea Shepherd Case, forthcoming 2014
Duty of Stewardship and Fisheries Governance: A Proposed Framework, forthcoming 2014
Using Individual Transferable Quotas To Achieve Social Policy Objectives: A Proposed Intervention, Marine Policy 45C, pp. 76–81
Individual Transferable Quotas in World Fisheries: Addressing Legal and Rights-Based Issues, Ocean and Coastal Management Journal, Volume 87, January 2014, Pages 102–113
ITQs and Fisheries Management: Policy Risk in Canadian Sablefish, in 2012: New Rules of Trade?, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, 2012
Adapting ITQs To Support Small Scale Fisheries: Alaska's Community Development Quota Program for Halibut and Sablefish, in Governing the Governance, planned to be published within the MARE Series at Springer in 2015
Stewardship as a Legal Duty, in Enhancing the Stewardship, Too Big To Ignore Working Group 4, forthcoming 2015
Selected non-academic articles
Hong Kong Offers a Growing Opportunity to Australia's Food Producers, Hong Kong Business, July 2013
Genetically Engineered Salmon: Can Producers be Required to Label it?, IntraFish, April 2013
Why Canadian Agriculture Economics Programs Should Offer Agriculture and Food Law Courses, Newsletter, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, March 2013
Seafood Markets and Their Potential, Fish Info & Services, March 2013
