Coalter G. Lathrop
Principal, Sovereign Geographic

Coalter G. Lathrop directs Sovereign Geographic, an international law firm and cartography consultancy serving sovereign clients throughout the world. Over the last twenty-five years, Lathrop has acted as counsel and advisor in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and ad hoc tribunals on questions of territorial sovereignty, maritime delimitation, transboundary harm, and shared resources, and he has provided negotiating support and advice on related matters to governments and private interests in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America. 

Lathrop holds a degree in marine policy from the University of Washington and a J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University. He publishes and presents on the law of the sea, the Arctic, island sovereignty, and maritime boundaries; teaches courses on Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law at Duke University; and has lectured at the Yeosu Academy, the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea, and the International Boundaries Research Unit. Lathrop served as the rapporteur of the ILA Baselines Committee, is the current chair of the ABILA Law of the Sea Committee, was a founding co-chair of the ASIL Law of the Sea Interest Group, and is in his thirteenth year as the editor of International Maritime Boundaries, an ASIL/Brill co-publication.

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