Neil Craik

Neil Craik is a Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo with appointments to the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where he teaches and researches in the fields of international and Canadian environmental law. His primary research interests are in climate and geoengineering law and governance, deep seabed mining regulation and environmental impact assessment. Professor Craik is on the Board of Advisors for the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment (American University), and was an advisor to the Geoengineering Research Governance Project (University of Calgary/Oxford).

He is currently the Principal Investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant on the international law respecting the global commons. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Co-director of the BSIA/CIGI International Law Summer Institute and has served as the Director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo from 2011 to 2017.

Professor Craik has degrees from McGill (BA hons. – philosophy), Dalhousie Law School (LLB), Edinburgh University Law School (LLM) and the University of Toronto Law School (SJD), and was called to the bar in Ontario in 1993.