Kaye is currently the Director of the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. Kaye was a senior lecturer in law at the University of Tasmania and was Head of the Law School at James Cook University. In 1995 he was appointed one of the two Australian nominees to the International Hydrographic Organisation’s Panel of Experts on Maritime Boundary Delimitation. In 2000, he was appointed by the Australian Government to the list of Arbitrators under the 1991 Madrid Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty. He was Dean of Law at the University of Wollongong between 2002 and 2006. Kaye was appointed to a Chair in Law at the University of Melbourne in 2006, and from 2011-13 was Dean of the Law School at the University of Western Australia. He is on the Board of Editors of Ocean development and International Law and the Antarctic and southern Ocean Law and Policy Occasional Papers. He is also a member of the advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military law at the University of Melbourne. Kaye was appointed to a Chair in Law at the University of Melbourne in 2006. He is on the Board of Editors of Ocean development and International Law and the Antarctic and southern Ocean Law and Policy Occasional Papers. He is also a member of the advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed to the International Hydrographic Organization's Panel of Experts on Maritime Boundary Delimitation in 1995 and in 2000 was appointed to the List of Arbitrators under the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty. He has been chair of the Australian Red Cross National International Humanitarian Law Committee since 2003. He is a legal officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Australian Academy of Law.
