Notes on Contributors
Vasco Becker-Weinberg
Dr. iur. (Hamburg), LL.M. (Lisbon), lectures at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa on law of the sea and ocean governance subjects, as well as at several Portuguese and foreign universities. He is the co-coordinator of the LL.M. program at NOVA on “The Law of the Sea and the Sea-Economy” and supervises several masters’ students from Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries. Professor Becker-Weinberg has researched at prominent academic institutions and written and published extensively in public international law and the law of the sea and is currently undertaking post-doctoral studies in public international law at NOVA, specifically on the intersection between human rights law and the law of the sea. He is a researcher at CEDIS – Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade – and a participant in the COST Actions “MarCons – Advancing Marine Conservation in the European and Contiguous Seas” and “Ocean Governance for Sustainability”, and the Horizon2020 proposal “Blue-Heritage – Boosting European Coastal and Maritime Cultural Heritage”. Professor Becker-Weinberg was previously legal advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of the Sea (2013–2015) and a full-time scholar at the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg (2008–2012). Over the years, Professor Becker-Weinberg has taken part in several Portuguese delegations to international fora dealing with the law of the sea, including the United Nations, the European Union and the Convention on Biological Diversity. He has also been involved in the drafting of Portuguese policies and legislation on law of the sea and ocean governance subjects.
Maria Gavouneli
LL.M. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Cantab), is Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law & Athens Public International Law Center – Athens PIL, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Visiting professor and lecturer in several universities and research institutions, including Fulbright Visiting Scholar 2018–2019 at the University of California Berkeley; member of several academic societies and currently co-convenor of the LAWSEA Interest Group of the European Society of International Law and member of the International Law Association Committee on Sea-Level Rise; recipient of multiple research grants. Author of four monographs, including Pollution from Offshore Installations (Martinus Nijhoff 1995 – Prix Paul Guggenheim), State Immunity and the Rule of Law (Athens 2001), Functional Jurisdiction in the Law of the Sea (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007), Energy Installations at Sea (2016 – in Greek); editor of seven volumes; numerous chapters and articles; co-editor-in-chief: Yearbook of International Environmental Law; member of the board of several law journals. Vice-chair of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights; Head of the Greek delegation at the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions and the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) at the Council of Europe; member of the Expert Group on Corruption of the European Commission.
Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli
has been working in the field of ocean affairs and the law of the sea for most of her career at the United Nations, and since August 2013 in the capacity of Director of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs. Prior to her current position, she held the position of Chief of the Treaty Section, Office of Legal Affairs, for three years. Before that she had been working in the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for 23 years, including as Deputy Director. Ms. Goettsche-Wanli is an alumnus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and of Columbia University, New York.
Gina Heathcote
is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and International Law and the Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London where she teaches Public International Law and Feminist Legal Theory. She is the author of The Law on the Use of Force: A Feminist Analysis (Routledge 2012) and co-editor, with Professor Dianne Otto, of Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and International Law (Palgrave 2014). Gina has published widely on topics linked to feminist methodologies and international law, collective security and the relationship between law and violence. Her forthcoming book Feminist Dialogues on International Law will be published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Loveday Hodson
is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester, UK. Her primary research interest is in the intersection of international law, gender, and sexuality. She has published widely in the area of women’s rights, as well as on conceptions of LGBT family rights in international law. She is co-convenor of the European Society of International Law’s interest group on Feminism and International Law, through which she has organised a number of conferences, seminars and panels.
Momoko Kitada
is a former seafarer and her research interests lie in gender and diversity issues in shipping, in particular, women seafarers and seafarers’ families in terms of identities and welfare issues. Momoko joined WMU in 2011 and serves as an Associate Professor as well as in the Secretariat of the WMU Women’s Association (WMUWA). She leads WMU’s collaboration efforts with the IMO in terms of women’s integration in the maritime sector and assists WMUWA in connection with other IMO regional support networks. She is the editor of Maritime Women: Global Leadership (Springer 2015).
Liesbeth Lijnzaad
is extraordinary professor Practice of International Law (part time). She is also judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg. Prior to joining ITLOS, she was the Legal Adviser of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and head of its international law department. In that capacity she has acted as Agent for the Netherlands in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Criminal Court. She has been the co-chair of the UNGA’s Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction (2010–2015). She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the San Remo Institute of International Humanitarian Law. Her research interests include: general international law, international humanitarian law, law of the sea, sources of international law (customary law, law of treaties), resources law (oil and gas, deep seabed mining), boundary limitation, as well as feminism and international law. She studied law and history, receiving master’s degrees in international law (1985) and Dutch law (1987) from the University of Amsterdam.
Patricia Mallia
graduated in Law from the University of Malta and Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University. She obtained her Ph.D. from IMO International Law Institute, focussing on contemporary threats to maritime security. In 2012 she was awarded the Elisabeth Mann Borgese Fellowship through which she carried out post-doctoral research in the area of the Common Heritage of Mankind. Her research interests focus on issues related to the law of the sea, primarily, on the analysis of contemporary maritime threats and the human element of maritime security. She has contributed to a number of books published both in Malta and abroad, and has written several articles. Her book Migrant Smuggling by Sea: Combating a Current Threat to Maritime Security through the Creation of a Cooperative Framework was published by Martinus Nijhoff in 2010. Patricia Mallia is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Law at the University of Malta.
Vanessa Murphy
holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law. She is currently a Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and has worked with organisations including DCAF, Human Rights Now, and the International Criminal Law Media Review. Prior to working in international law, Vanessa worked in litigation on behalf of victims of sexual abuse, and the management of support services for victims of sexual violence and human-trafficking.
Francesca Mussi
is a Research Fellow in International Law at the University of Trento, where she is currently engaged in a research project on international and regional human rights law in the administration of justice in Somalia. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Milano-Bicocca (2017), where she defended a thesis on the contribution to the development of an international legal framework on migration at sea made by Italian judicial decisions as a form of State practice, and a Law Degree from the University of Parma (2011). Francesca Mussi has been visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen and postgraduate researcher at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Her main fields of expertise include international migration law, international human rights law and international law of the sea.
Gabriela A. Oanta
is an associate professor of public international law at the University of A Coruña (Spain) since 2011 and a holder of a Jean Monnet Module on “European Union’s Integrated Maritime Policy” (reference: 2016–2174). She is the Director of the Specific Postgraduate Training Course “The European Union’s Integrated Maritime Policy” as well as the Academic Secretary of the ‘Salvador de Madariaga’ University Institute for European Studies within the same University. She has been a member of different research groups and projects financed by various international and Spanish research institutions. Her research focuses on the international law of the sea, Common Fisheries Policy, European Union’s enlargement process, and business and human rights.
Alice Ollino
holds a Ph.D. in public international law from the University of Milano-Bicocca, a LL.M. in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a combined LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Torino. Alice’s research interests include general public international law, international responsibility and feminist approaches to international law. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, Alice worked for the Secretariat of Amnesty International in London and practiced criminal law in an Italian law firm. She is also a qualified lawyer.
Nilufer Oral
is a member of the law faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (2017–2021). Dr. Oral was a legal advisor to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on law of the sea and served as a climate change negotiator between 2009 until 2016. She is a Distinguished Senior Scholar of the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of California Berkeley. She is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and served as Co-chair of its Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs. She was elected to the IUCN Council (2012–2016) and is currently a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Steering Committee and Chair of the International Council on Environmental Law (ICEL). Dr. Oral served as Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014–2017). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the WWF-Turkey. Dr. Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World series (Brill Nijhoff). She also serves on the Board of Editors of the European Journal of International Law and is an Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea. She has numerous publications on the law of the sea, marine environment and international law.
Irini Papanicolopulu
is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She has been a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Glasgow and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Professor Papanicolopulu conducts research and has published widely in international law, including among others law of the sea, delimitation of maritime boundaries, environmental law, international humanitarian law, human rights law and the protection of cultural heritage. She has been guest lecturer at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Germany), the International Maritime Law Institute (Malta), the Institute for Advanced Defence Studies (Italy), the Oxford International Law Course for Military Lawyers (UK), and the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Italy). Her most recent book, entitled International Law and the Protection of People at Sea was published by Oxford University Press in March 2018. She currently serves as the Convenor of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the Italian Society of International Law.
Tullio Scovazzi
is professor of international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, and occasionally participates, as legal advisor of the Italian government, in negotiations and meetings relating to human rights, cultural properties, law of the sea and the environment.
Ioannis Stribis
is an Assistant Professor of International Institutions at the University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has been a Research Fellow at The Academy of Athens, Bureau of International and Constitutional Institutions (2003–2009). He has been the Legal Adviser of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC; Istanbul, 1999–2003); of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS; Athens, 2003–2009); and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE; Vienna, 2009–2016). He is the author of several monographs and articles in the fields of international law, law of the sea, international organizations, international peace and security and peaceful settlement of disputes.
David Testa
graduated in law with first class honours from the University of Malta where he completed his LL.B. and LL.D. degrees. Subsequently, he continued his studies at the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute (LL.M. in International Maritime Law, with distinction) and at the University of Cambridge (LL.M. in International Law, with first class honours). Presently he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Nottingham. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta and an Affiliate Member at Qatar University’s Centre for Law & Development. His research interests encompass general international law and the law of the sea, including particularly marine environment protection and dispute settlement issues. He has published in a number of journals including in Ocean Development & International Law and, most recently, in the Journal of Environmental Law (OUP).