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Keith MacMaster is a legal and financial policy researcher focusing on sustainable finance. His research is directed at two broad areas: climate finance and deep seabed mining. The first area aims at improving responsible investing and creating new sustainable financial products. The second area analyzes the financial mechanisms relating to deep seabed mining, ensuring parties responsible for environmental damage have liability attached.
This Hi PhD thesis ("Comprehensive Wealth and the Development of Deep Seabed Mining Finance") addressed the financial and investment issues in deep seabed mining, arguing that additional measures are necessary to prevent environmental and social harms, to provide for compensation and remediation should those harms occur, and to ensure that the principles of the common heritage of mankind are implemented.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
2018 → 2023
LLM, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
2017 → 2018
MBA, Richard Ivey School of Business
2006 → 2007
LLB, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
2000 → 2003
BA, University of Cape Breton
1996 → 2000
External positions
Lawyer, Weldon McInnis
2023 → …
Research Interests
- Sustainable Investing
- Seabed Mining
- Law of Trusts
- Professional Ethics
- Property Law
- Invetment Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Disciplines
- Law
- Bankruptcy Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Environmental Law
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Sustainable Seabed Mining and the Phase 1 Environmental Standards and Guidelines
MacMaster, K., Jan. 1 2023, In: Australian Year Book of International Law. 41, 1, p. 37-73Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mining For Equality: Soft Targets and Hard Floors for Boards of Directors?
MacMaster, K. & Seck, S. L., Jan. 1 2020, Mining For Equality: Soft Targets and Hard Floors for Boards of Directors?.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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More Data, Less Problems: A Case for More Precise Climate Data in Investment Allocation
MacMaster, K., Aug. 13 2020, In: Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Environmental Liability for Deep Seabed Mining in the Area: An Urgent Case for a Robust Strict Liability Regime
MacMaster, K., Jan. 1 2019, In: Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press. 33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Le devoir de vigilance: A Canadian Perspective
MacMaster, K. & Seck, S. L., Jan. 1 2019, Le devoir de vigilance: A Canadian Perspective.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter