Founding Affiliates

Owen McIntyre is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (National University of Ireland), where he serves as the Director of the LL.M. (Environmental & Natural Resources Law) Programme and as Co-Director of the Centre for Law & the Environment.

His principal interest lies in the field of (International) Environmental Law, with a particular research focus on International Water Law. He has served as the inaugural Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law's Specialist Group on Water and Wetlands, as a Panel Member on the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and on the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency. He has been appointed by the Government of Ireland to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board. He holds visiting positions at Wuhan University, Xiamen University, the University of Dundee, and Charles University Prague. He serves on the boards of several international journals and is the General Editor of the Journal of Water Law.

He has consulted widely in the fields of International Water Law, Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law for such clients as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and European Union.  He has also advised river basin commissions (RBOs) in Europe, Africa and Asia on transboundary water cooperation.

His publications include:

Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International Law (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007).  

The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes: Its Contribution to International Water Cooperation (Brill, Leiden, 2015), A. Tanzi, O. McIntyre, A. Kolliopoulos, A. Rieu-Clarke and R. Kinna (eds.).

A History of Water: Sovereignty and International Water Law, (IB Tauris, London, 2015), T. Tvedt, O. McIntyre, T. Kasse Woldetsadik (eds.).

Environmental Rights – The Development of Standards, S. Turner, D. Shelton, J. Razzaque, O. McIntyre and J.R. May (eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing, O. McIntyre, and S. Nanwani (eds.) (Brill, Leiden, 2020).