Andrea Caligiuri
is Associate professor of international law at the Faculty of Law, and director of the Interdepartmental Research Centre on the Adriatic and the Mediterranean (CiRAM) at the University of Macerata (Italy). He has published extensively on the law of the sea, international criminal law, and international human rights law. In particular, he is the author of the book L’arbitrato nella Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sul diritto del mare (Editoriale Scientifica 2018), and co-editor (with I Papanicolopulu, L Schiano di Pepe, and R Virzo) of the book Italia e diritto del mare (Editoriale Scientifica 2023). He is a member of the Società Italiana di Diritto Internazionale e di Diritto dell’Unione Europea (sidi), of the Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer (AssIDMer) and of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Gentiliani (cisg).
Mar Campins Eritja
is Full professor of public international law, and Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law (since 2017) at Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). Her main fields of expertise is the international and European environmental law, developed through continuous participation in competitive I+D projects (as principal investigator and researcher), publications in scientific journals and in collective books as well as through participation in and organization of congresses and scientific meetings of national and international scope. Former vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and former Deputy to the Vice-Rector for International Policy and Vice-Rector for International Policy. Fulbright Scholar at American University and visiting professor at several universities in the USA, Canada and Europe.
Laura Carballo Piñeiro
is Full professor of private international law at the University of Vigo (Spain). Her areas of expertise include conflicts of laws, international litigation, international labour law, and maritime law. Before joining the University of Vigo, she was Professor and Nippon Foundation Chair at the World Maritime University (Sweden) where she started to provide her expertise to various UN agencies, including the International Maritime Organization (imo) and the International Labour Organization (ilo). She is still a visiting professor at World Maritime University, has been visiting professor at different European and Latin American institutions, and Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law.
is Head of research in public international law, Åbo Akademi University (Finland). Main research interests concern international organizations, including the European Union, and the function of international law and legal concepts. Relevant publications include: ‘The EU’s Interaction with Institutions in the Baltic Sea Region’ in The EU and the Baltic Sea Area (Rosas, A. and Ringbom, H., eds., Bloomsbury, 2023); ‘Regulating the Baltic Sea – A Showcase of Normative Pluralism’, 2019 German Yearbook of International Law 61; and ‘Complexities of the Baltic Sea Regulatory Framework’ (2018) Marine Policy 98.
Miguel García García-Revillo
is Associate professor of public international law at the University of Córdoba (Spain) and legal adviser. Promoter and founding Co-chair of the Law of the Sea Interest Groups of both the American Society of International Law (asil losig) and the European Society of International Law (esil lawsea ig). He has extensively published on law of the sea, and international environmental law. His book The Contentiuos and Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Brill/Nijhoff 2015) is an international reference on this topic.
Géraldine Giraudeau
is Full professor of law at the University of Paris-Saclay (uvsq, France), junior member of the ‘Institut universitaire de France’, and an associated member of the Research Centre for Law and Economics of the University of New Caledonia. She holds a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France) and the University Carlos iii of Madrid (Spain). She has focused her research in public international law, especially in law of the sea, territorial issues, and questions around insularity in the Pacific region.
Arron N Honniball
is Senior research fellow at The Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (mpfpr, Germany), working within the Foundation’s asean and Indian Ocean maritime governance projects. Prior to joining mpfpr, he was a Research Fellow (2019–2021) at cil (National University of Singapore) and PhD Candidate (2014–2018) at nilos (Utrecht University). Latest works address the obligations of the State of Nationality (2023, International Law Studies, with VJ Schatz); defining maritime terrorism (2023, International Law Studies); and the interpretation of Article 51 of unclos (2022, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, with ar Darmawan).
is Assistant professor of public international law at the University of Córdoba (Spain). Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the same university. Nippon Foundation Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017/2018). Visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, King’s College London, The Hague Academy of International Law, and University of Buenos Aires. His main areas of research are the law of the sea and the peaceful settlement of disputes. Member of the Board of the Spanish Association of Professors of International Law and International Relations (aepdiri).
Guillaume Le Floch
is Full professor of international law at the University of Rennes (France). He is also Director of the Institut de droit publics et de science politique (idpsp) and Secretary general of the Société française de droit international (sfdi). He is the author of several books and articles mainly in the fields of the law of the sea, international dispute settlement, and international human rights law.
Mitchell Lennan
is Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), and a ukri gcrf One Ocean Hub member. His research interests revolve around the ocean, where he explores the intersections of international law of the sea, climate, biodiversity, human rights, and trade law. He has been involved in international dispute settlement as an assistant to Counsel for Republic of Maldives in Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius/Maldives) at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (itlos) in 2020. He interned in the itlos Legal Office in 2018.
Gabriela A Oanta
is Full professor of public international law, Jean Monnet Chair “European Union’s law of the oceans: New legal-maritime scenarios”, and director of ‘Salvador de Madariaga’ University Institute of European Studies at the University of A Coruña (Spain). Visiting Professor (under contract) at the University of Salerno (2019) and University of Perugia (2020). Visiting Scholar in Environmental Rights at Widener University Delaware Law School (2024). Since 2018, co-convenor of the esil’s Interest Group on the Law of the Sea. Member of the Pool of Experts (PoE) of the UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects (Regular Process). She has published extensively
Ilias Plakokefalos
is Assistant professor of public international law at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (2012–2015), and he was Assistant professor at Utrecht University (2015–2017). He has worked as an advisor to the Greek Government (2017–2019) and at the Greek Parliament (2019–2023).
Mercedes Rosello
is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Lincoln (England). She has an interest in international fisheries law and has published extensively in this area. Her work includes elements of high seas commercial and non-commercial fishing, control of illegal and unregulated fishing, flag and port State fisheries controls, fisheries governance of regional fisheries management organisations, protection of natural persons on board of fishing vessels, the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union, and legal security across all fisheries contexts.
Susana Sanz Caballero
is Full professor of public international law at the University ceu Cardenal Herrera (Valencia, Spain). She is the holder of a Jean Monnet Chair and a member of the Council of Administration of the Association Fondation René Cassin. She holds the diploma of expert in international protection of human rights of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and the Master of Arts in Social Sciences of the Juan March Foundation. She was senior advisor of the European Union in its structured dialogues with Brazil in the field of human rights. She is ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Jessica NM Schechinger
is Postdoctoral research fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (nclos) at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She was a co-convenor of the European Society of International Law (esil) Interest Group on the Law of the Sea between 2018 and 2024 and is a member of the International Law Association (ila) Committee on Protection of People at Sea, as well as a member (and Science Communication Coordinator) of cost Action ca23103 ‘BlueRights’. She previously worked at the University of Glasgow, the
Stephanie Switzer
is Reader in Law (Associate Professor) at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). She researches in the field of public international law and has a particular interest in global health and international trade law. She is a co-investigator with the One Ocean Hub, a ukri funded global interdisciplinary research collaboration which is pioneering research on human rights and the marine environment with a view to better connecting marine and social sciences, and the arts, to support fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and planet flourish.
Youri Van Logchem
is Associate Professor of Law (Law of the Sea and Environmental Law) at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (nclos) at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Before that, he was a senior lecturer at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University and a PhD fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (nilos), at Utrecht University. He has published widely on law of the sea issues, including a monograph entitled The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas (Cambridge University Press 2021). His work has been cited before international courts and tribunals. Youri has also received awards for academic achievements, including the Rhodes Academy Submarine Cables Award.