Dariusz Rafał Bugajski
(Captain, PhD, DSc) is graduate of the Faculty of Navigation & Naval Weapons at Polish Naval Academy as well as the Faculty of Law at the University of Gdańsk. He served as commanding officer of an Anti-submarine Warfare Naval Ship (Fast Attack Craft). Received PhD in 2001 and habilitation in international law at the Faculty of Law at Szczecin University in 2009. Member of the Maritime Law Commission of the Polish Academy of Science, the Shipbuilding Council Society, the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, national expert of Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (International Hydrographic Organization) and editor-in-chief of the ‘International Humanitarian Law’ journal. He currently is a professor of International Law and Law of the Sea at the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia. His scientific interests include international law and security, law of the sea, international humanitarian law, strategy and history.
Stuart Casey-Maslen
is Extraordinary Professor of International Law at the University of Pretoria in South Africa where he teaches jus ad bellum, human rights law, counterterrorism law, disarmament law, and the law of armed conflict. He has a doctorate in international humanitarian law and master’s degrees in international human rights law and forensic ballistics. His book on ‘The Right to Life under International Law’ was published by Cambridge University Press in September 2021. His books on international counterterrorism law and hybrid warfare under international law will be published in 2024.
Arne Willy Dahl
is Honorary President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War where he served as president in 2006–2012. He has authored ‘Håndbok i militær folkerett’ (handbook of military international law) and several academic articles. He is the co-editor and co-author of the ‘Oslo Manual on Select Topics of the Law of Armed Conflict’ (2020) and member of the Steering Committee for the revision of the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Dahl has served in many positions in the Norwegian civil service, including as a Judge Advocate General from 1989 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2014, Head of Legal office at the Chief of Defence headquarters (2001–2002) and public prosecutor at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (2003–2005).
is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. He studied in Norway, Sweden, England and Germany (PhD) and focuses on both domestic and international law – constitutional law, human rights, law of the sea, jus in bello, jus ad bellum, legal history and methodology. Among his publications we find a book on piracy, and he currently works on a book on naval graves.
Sofia Galani
(LLB, LLM, PhD, FHEA) is an Assistant Professor at the Panteion University of Athens and a Scientific Advisor to the Hellenic Parliament. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie on maritime security, the law of the sea, human rights and terrorism and she has published in these areas. She is the author of ‘Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Victim-Centred Approach?’ (Cambridge University Press 2021) and a co-editor (with Professor Sir Malcolm Evans) of ‘Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance?’ (Edward Elgar 2020). Sofia is one of the principal contributors to the UNODC Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners. She sits at the Non-Executive Board of Advisors of Human Rights at Sea and is one of the authors of the Geneva Declaration of Human Rights at Sea.
Shin Kawagishi
is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Shizuoka University, Japan. Prior to coming to Shizuoka University, his working experiences include an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate School of Law in Kyoto University. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He holds Doctor of Laws in 2010 and Master of Laws in 2007 respectively from the Graduate School of Law in Kyoto University. He also holds Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law in Keio University in 2004. He has published on public international law, especially law on the use of force, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, in international and domestic law journals.
Timo Koivurova
is Research Professor and Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Finland. He has a multidisciplinary specialization in Arctic law and governance but has also conducted broader research on global law (including authoring an English-language textbook on international environmental law).
Alexander Lott
(PhD) works as a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Alexander is also a lecturer (0.1) of administrative law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is the author of books ‘Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea’ (Brill 2022) and ‘The Estonian Straits: Exceptions to the Strait Regime of Innocent or Transit Passage’ (Brill 2018). Alexander has published widely on the law of the sea, human rights, international security law, administrative law, and environmental law. This book forms part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship (2022–2024) that Alexander was awarded with by the European Commission. Prior to joining the academia, he worked as a legal adviser at the constitutional review and administrative law chambers at the Estonian Supreme Court as well as at the Ministry of Justice.
Iva Parlov
is an associate professor at the Department of Law and Governance, at the Norwegian Business School (BI). Her main research interests are within international law of the sea and international maritime law. She holds a PhD in law from the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, the Arctic University of Norway. Parlov is the author of the monograph ‘Coastal State Jurisdiction over Ships in Need of Assistance, Maritime Casualties and Shipwrecks’ (Brill 2022). She has been continuously publishing in international journals and collected works, with a particular focus on the law of the sea and shipping.
Anna Petrig
holds the Chair of International and Public Law at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She has a PhD in the field of the law of the sea and human rights law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Anna is a member of the Bar of
Henrik Ringbom
is Professor of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland and Professor II (part-time) at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo. His previous work experience includes 11 years as an EU official at the European Commission and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). Prof. Ringbom has published widely in the field of European and international shipping law and environmental law.
Ulf Sverdrup
is a professor at the Department of Law and Governance, at the Norwegian Business School (BI). He was Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) from 2011 to 2023. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo. Sverdrup led the Norwegian government-appointed commission that reviewed the implications of geopolitics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, and he was the Head of the Secretariat for the Official Norwegian Europe Review. Sverdrup has published extensively on various topics in international politics, with a particular emphasis on European affairs and Norwegian foreign policy.
Pierre Thévenin
(PhD) is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tartu. He conducts research on Soviet and Russian approaches to the law of the sea.
Theresa Winkel
is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland. She conducts research on legal resilience and hybrid threats with a European and Arctic focus.