Former Team Members

Ruby Mahana Moynihan

Division of Social Sciences
Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Working Group Climate Change
Working Group Social-science Water Research

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

R. Moynihan

Areas of Expertise & Research

  • Public International Law
  • International, European and National Water Law
  • International Environmental Law
  • Climate Change Adaptation and Water Security

Curriculum Vitae

2012 − 2016

Research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

2010 – 2012

Research Associate at the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (under the auspices of UNESCO), University of Dundee (Scotland)
Project consultancy for the ‘UN Watercourses Convention Global Initiative’ together with the World Wide Fund for Nature and consultancy for the IUCN Centre for Environmental Law, Bonn, on climate change adaptation and water governance

2008 – 2010

Environmental and Public Lawyer, Anderson Lloyd Lawyers New Zealand
Practice areas: Environment and Planning Law

since 2009

Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (New Zealand Law Society)

2003 – 2009

Student at the University of Otago, New Zealand

Degree 1: Master of International Studies (MInst) (with Distinction), Masters Thesis: International Law and Policy on Water Allocation: An Assessment of New Zealand's Implementation of Agenda 21

Degree 2: Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Otago, New Zealand

Degree 3: Bachelor of Arts (BA) Major in Political Science, University of Otago, New Zealand

Current Projects

Integrated Project ‘Water scarcity’
Research group ‘International Environmental Law’

Since 06/2012
‘International Water Research Alliance Saxony’ (IWAS Initiative)
Objectives: The improvement of water management in view of the EU-water framework directive and international environmental law in countries of the former Soviet Union (Eastern Europe)

Memberships

  • European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • International Law Association (ILA)
  • IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL)
  • CEL Specialist Group on Water and Wetlands (SGWW)
  • Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)

Selected Publications

  • Wouters, P. and Moynihan, R. ‘Benefit Sharing in International Water Law,’ In Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Flavia Loures (Eds.), The UN Watercourses Convention in Force: Strengthening International Law for Transboundary Water Management, (Earthscan Publishers, Forthcoming 2012).
  • Rieu-Clarke, A. and Moynihan, R. and Magsig B.-O. ‘UN Watercourses Convention: A User’s Guide’ (IHP-HELP CWLPS (UNESCO) 2012).
  • Wouters, P. and Moynihan, R. ‘International Law and Water Security’, In Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Flavia Loures (Eds.), The UN Watercourses Convention in Force: Strengthening International Law for Transboundary Water Management, (Earthscan Publishers, Forthcoming 2012).
  • Wouters, P. and Moynihan, R. ‘Transboundary Water Law,’ In Klaus Bosselmann, Daniel Fogel, and J. B. Ruhl (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vol. 3: The Law and Politics of Sustainability, Great Barrington, MA: (Berkshire Publishing, 2011).
  • Moynihan, R. (2009) ‘International Law and Policy on Water Allocation: Does New Zealand Comply?’ Resource Management Journal, NZ Resource Management Law Association, December 2009, 5.
  • Moynihan, R. and Crawford J (2009). ‘Fleetwing Revisited: Central Plains Water, Supreme Court Update’, Resource Management Journal, NZ Resource Management Law Association, August 2009, 11.