Notes on Contributors
Abbe E. L. Brown
is Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Aberdeen. She has a particular interest in the intersection between intellectual property and laws relating to important societal challenges, and in 2019 published her second monograph “Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology” with Edward Elgar. Abbe has been involved in biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction since 2018, working closely with Marcel Jaspars. Abbe is a member of iucn World Commission on Environmental Law and has attended meetings of the igc. Before returning to academia in 2003, Abbe spent 10 years as a practising litigator in London, Melbourne and Edinburgh.
The authors are delighted to acknowledge the significant contribution made to this piece by Dr. Olivia Woolley (School of Law University of Aberdeen, shortly to be of Durham University), and research assistance provided by Jack Cameron (graduate of the School of Law University of Aberdeen). We also acknowledge the invaluable contribution to scholarship and to the ongoing negotiations by Arianna Broggiato, Thomas Vanagt, Laura E. Lallier, Geoff Burton and Dominic Muyldermans – authors, alongside Jaspars, of the Mare Geneticum piece to which reference is made in this chapter.
Hans Corell
(Sweden) was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations 1994–2004. From 1962 to 1972, he served in the Swedish judiciary. In 1972, he joined the Ministry of Justice where he became Director of the Division for Administrative and Constitutional Law in 1979. In 1981, he was appointed Chief Legal Officer of the Ministry. He was Ambassador and Under-Secretary for Legal and Consular Affairs in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1984 to 1994. Since his retirement from public service in 2004 he is engaged in many different activities in the legal field, inter alia as legal adviser, lecturer, and member of different boards. Among others, he is involved in the work of the International Bar Association, the Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice and the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law.
David Dubay
is a Military Professor of International Law and Associate Director for the Law of Maritime Operations, Stockton Center for International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. The views presented are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, or the U.S. Naval War College.
Harriet Harden-Davies
is a visiting Science Diplomacy Fellow at The Fletcher School and a post-doctoral research fellow with the Nereus Program at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ancors), University of Wollongong. Harriet gratefully acknowledgements the support from the Nippon Foundation Nereus Program for attendance at this conference and the research for this paper. Harriet has worked as a consultant for ioc-unesco on projects relating to the preparation for the UN Decade of Ocean Science. hhdavies@uow.edu.au
Alf Håkon Hoel
is Professor of Ocean Law and Policy at UiT – the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, and a global fellow at the Wilson Centre in Washington, DC. His research addresses issues related to ocean governance in general and in fisheries in particular, and recent publications discuss the new fisheries arrangement for the central Arctic Ocean, challenges in international ocean governance, and the implementation of integrated oceans management.
Lisa Eurén Höglund
has a law degree from Uppsala University and has studied international law at Université de Strasbourg Robert Schuman. Ms. Eurén Höglund was actively engaged in the bbnj process as representative of Sweden from 2012 to 2019, including as head of the Swedish Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference. Ms. Eurén Höglund is an experienced diplomat with experience from a broad range of foreign policy areas, including development cooperation. She fulfilled the Diplomatic Training Program of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2004.
Nong Hong
is Executive Director and Senior Fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies in Washington, DC. She holds a PhD in interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations from the University of Alberta, Canada, and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the University’s China Institute.
Marcel Jaspars
is Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Marine Biodiscovery Centre at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Marcel Jaspars’ main expertise is in the discovery, characterisation and utilisation of useful products and processes from marine genetic resources. Marcel has been active at national and international levels to develop the science, its applications/industrial uptake and associated policy involved in marine biodiscovery and biotechnology. Since 2014 Marcel has been involved in the bbnj process, providing scientific input and co-authoring the Mare Geneticum proposal which provides building blocks based on good scientific practice towards a solution for the mgr aspects of the bbnj process.
Rena Lee*
is President of the bbnj Inter-governmental Conference, Ambassador for Oceans and Law of the Sea Issues, and Special Envoy of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore.
*Views expressed are her own and do not reflect the views of the Government of Singapore.
Ronán Long
is the Director of the wmu-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute at the World Maritime University (wmu) in Malmö, Sweden, and holds the Nippon Foundation Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea. He is the author of over 70 scholarly articles and book contributions on oceans law and policy. He read for his PhD at the School of Law Trinity College Dublin, he has been a Senior Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the ‘Centre for Oceans Law and Policy’ at the University of Virginia. Additionally, Professor Long has participated at many law of the sea negotiations as a member of the European Union and Irish delegations including at the bbnj processes at the United Nations.
Larry Mayer
is a Professor and Director of The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He received a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Geophysics in 1979. In 2000 Larry became the founding director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. He is the recipient of the Keen Medal for Marine Geology and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm. In 2016 Larry was appointed by President Obama to the Arctic Research Commission, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 and in 2019 was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Larry’s current research deals with sonar imaging and remote characterization of the seafloor as well as advanced applications of 3-D visualization to ocean mapping problems and applications of mapping to Law of the Sea issues, particularly in the Arctic.
Ted L. McDorman
is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He has written widely on ocean law and policy issues having published over 120 articles, chapters in books, etc. Since 2000, he has been editor-in-chief of Ocean Development and International Law. From 2002–2004 and again from 2011 to 2013, Professor McDorman was “academic-in-residence” in the Legal Affairs Branch of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada) where he was involved in a number of Arctic law of the sea and environmental matters, worked on Canada’s submission to the clcs and represented Canada at several international forums. From January-May 2007, he was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C
Joanna Mossop
is an Associate Professor in law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research in the law of the sea covers a range of topics including marine biodiversity, dispute settlement, maritime security, fisheries and whaling. Her book The Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities (Oxford University Press, 2016) was a joint winner of the jf Northey Memorial Award. This chapter was completed while she was a MacCormick Fellow at Edinburgh Law School. In 2019 the New Zealand government nominated her to the list of arbitrators and conciliators under Annexes v and vi of unclos.
Arif Havas Oegroseno
is the Indonesian Ambassador to Germany. Previous to his ambassadorship to Germany, he was Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs. In the latter capacity Dr. Havas Oegroseno served as President of the 20th Meeting of the 162 State Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (splos). Before his vice-ministerial position, he was the Indonesian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, Head of Mission to the European Union and the World Custom Union 2010–2015. He worked vis-à-vis nato on maritime security issues. A career diplomat and an expert in international law of the sea, he has served in the Indonesian foreign service for over 25 years since 1986.
J. Ashley Roach
is a retired Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy; Visiting Senior Principal Research Fellow, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore; and retired from the Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State. The views expressed in this chapter are not intended to reflect the position of any government or any of their departments or agencies. The author’s PowerPoint is available at <
At State, he was responsible for law of the sea matters. He has taught, advised and published extensively on national maritime claims and other law of the sea issues, including piracy and armed robbery at sea. He has negotiated, and participated in the negotiation of, numerous international agreements involving law of the sea issues. He received his llm (highest honors in public international law and comparative law) from the George Washington University School of Law in 1971 and his jd from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963.
The views expressed in this chapter are not intended to reflect the position of any government or any of their departments or agencies.
Clive Schofield
is Head of Research at the wmu-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden and Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ancors), University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds a PhD in Geography, University of Durham, UK and an llm in international law, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research relates to international maritime boundary delimitation and technical aspects of the law of the sea on which he has delivered over 200 publications. He has also been involved in the peaceful settlement of international boundary disputes through negotiations and in cases before international judicial bodies.
Karen N. Scott
is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (anzsil) and Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Development and International Law (odil). She researches and teaches in the areas of public international law, law of the sea and international environmental law. Karen has published over 70 edited books, journal articles and book chapters in these areas. She was Head of the School of Law at the University of Canterbury (2015–2018) and previously taught at the University of Nottingham in the UK.
Siva Thambisetty
is Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. She researches and teaches comparative and international patent law with a particular focus on emerging technologies, including biotechnology. Her research and policy work is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach.
Robin Warner
is Professor, Deputy Director and Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ancors), University of Wollongong, Australia. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Oceans Coasts and Coral Reefs Specialist Group of the iucn World Commission on Environmental Law. Her research interests include law of the sea, oceans governance, marine environmental law and climate law. She is the author of more than 80 publications on ocean law and policy including Protecting the Oceans beyond National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, 2009)