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PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

Dr Danae Azaria is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Laws of University College London (UCL). She is the author of the monograph Treaties on Transit of Energy via Pipelines and Countermeasures published by Oxford University Press (2015) and included in the series Oxford Monographs in International Law. A panel inspired by this monograph was included in the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). The monograph received the 2016 Research Project of the Year Award from the Greek Energy Forum, and her doctoral thesis, which was the basis of the monograph, was awarded the Tenekides Prize of the Hellenic Society of International Law. Dr.

Azaria is a general public international lawyer with a special interest in international energy law, the law of the sea, the law of treaties and state responsibility. She is a member of the Legal Advisory Task Force of the Energy Charter Secretariat.

Dr Emily Barritt is a Centre Fellow at the Cambridge for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, a Teaching Fellow in Tort Law at King’s College London and a Lecturer in Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Her research has two strands: environmental rights democracy and stewardship in the context of the UNECE Aarhus Convention; and legal options for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

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Professor Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Dr. iur. (Hamburg), LL.M (Lisbon), is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and a qualified lawyer at the Portuguese Bar Association. He is the co-coordinator of the LL.M program on “Law and Sea-Economy” and is undertaking post-doctoral studies in public international law at NOVA. He is also a member of CEDIS – Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade, where he

is coordinating a research project on human trafficking. He 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). Vasco Becker-Weinberg occasionally lectures in several Portuguese and foreign universities and has undertaken extensive research at prominent academic institutions. He has written several works in public international law and the law of the sea and is the author of Joint Development of Offshore Hydrocarbon Deposits in the Law of the Sea (Springer Verlag: 2014), “Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and shipping interdiction” (with Guglielmo Verdirame, OUP: 2015), and “Portugal's legal regime on marine spatial planning and management of the national maritime space” (Marine Policy vol. 61: 2015). As legal advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of the Sea, Vasco Becker-Weinberg took part in the preparation of the Portuguese legal regime on marine spatial planning and management of the national maritime space.

Charles L.O. Buderi is a partner in the infrastructure and oil & gas practice groups with a particular depth of experience in public international law. His experience in public international law relates both to international arbitration disputes involving states and to the representation of governments in connection with sovereignty, treaty, diplomatic and other public international law matters. His infrastructure experience has principally involved large-scale development projects and private equity activities in the Middle East, where he has advised clients on diverse aspects of structuring, financing and executing such projects. He also has represented clients

in other fundraising and investment activities, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters throughout the Middle East region. His experience in the energy industry includes privatizations, joint ventures, project finance, construction and development of energy infrastructure, and a wide range of commercial and contractual matters in the petroleum and petrochemical industries. All of this work has been on behalf of national oil companies. He also has international arbitration and dispute resolution experience related to the petroleum industry and to other international commercial transactions. He argued and won the first case to be brought before the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre in 2006. Mr. Buderi has published articles related to the shipping industry, the law of the sea, international arbitration and various other international law topics. He also has lectured on various project finance and oil industry topics in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.

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Professor David D. Caron is presently serving as a Judge with the Iran - United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague and as Professor of International Law at King’s College London. Professor Caron joined as Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law from the US, where he was the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Rule of Law, member of the Executive Council of the American Bar Association Section on International law, member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law, Co-Director of the

Law of the Sea Institute, Co-Director of Berkeley’s Miller Institute on Global Challenges and the Law, and as a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Professor Caron’s scholarship addresses international law and organization, with the corpus of work focusing on public and private international dispute resolution, international courts and tribunals, the United Nations, the law of the sea, international environmental law, climate change and general theory of international law. David Caron served as Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration from 2005 to 2009 and is a Co-Editor in Chief of World Arbitration and Mediation Review. He has served as an arbitrator in international matters, including from 1996 to 2003 service as a Commissioner with the Precedent Panel (E2) of the U. N. Compensation Commission in Geneva resolving claims arising out of the 1990 Gulf War. He is a member of the Bars of the State of California and of England and Wales, and is a Barrister Member of Chambers at 20 Essex Street.

Jordan Diamond is the Executive Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) and Executive Director of the Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) at the UC Berkeley School of Law. CLEE channels the expertise and creativity of the Berkeley Law community into pragmatic policy solutions to environmental and energy challenges in California and across the nation. LOSI is a forum for international discussion, debate, and scholarship on critical ocean law and policy questions. Jordan’s work focuses on ensuring environmental laws and policies incorporate the best information available, are developed through inclusive and transparent processes, and are implemented through adaptive and accountable systems. Prior to joining CLEE, Jordan was the Co-Director of the

Ocean Program at the Environmental Law Institute, where she concentrated on strengthening ocean and coastal governance at local and regional levels. Jordan holds a JD and certificate in environmental law from Berkeley Law, where she was the managing editor of Ecology Law Quarterly, and a BA in earth and environmental sciences and a certificate in environmental studies from Wesleyan University, where she received the Sease Prize for outstanding work in environmental science. In 2013, Jordan received the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Distinguished Environmental Advocates: The Next Generation award.

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Professor Holly Doremus is James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Faculty Director of the Law of the Sea Institute and Co-Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. Doremus brings a strong background in life sciences and a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship to her work at Berkeley Law. She earned her PhD in Plant Physiology from Cornell University and was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Missouri before making the transition to law. In addition to her law school teaching

experience, she has taught in the graduate ecology program at UC Davis, in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, and at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara. She has co-authored papers with economists and ecologists, and has been a member of two National Research Council review committees. Doremus received her JD and Environmental Law Certificate from Berkeley Law, where she was an articles editor for the Ecology Law Quarterly and a member of the Order of the Coif honor society. She then clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced municipal and land use law with the firm of Eickelberg & Fewel in Corvallis, Ore., and taught at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University before beginning her law teaching career at UC Davis in 1995. She is a Member-Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She was honored as a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow for 2001-2006.

Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont is Coordinator of the Public International Law Advisory Group. He is a lawyer and a consultant in public international law, international investment law and dispute resolution. He has advised Asian, European, Middle Eastern, African and Latin American governments, as well as public and private entities and corporations, on public international law matters. His advisory services have involved the issues of the law of the sea and maritime boundary delimitation, international environmental law and transboundary harm, dispute settlement procedures before international courts and tribunals, the law of treaties, state and international organisations responsibility,

international economic sanctions (UN, US, EU), state immunity, international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament and non-proliferation issues. Pierre-Emmanuel is serving as legal adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral sanctions (unilateral coercive measures) and has worked on several international arbitration cases including investor-state disputes related to foreign investments under the ICSID Convention, the Energy Charter Treaty and bilateral investment treaties. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Free Faculty of Law, Economics and Management of Paris (FACO), where he teaches investment treaty arbitration and commercial arbitration. In addition, he is a member of the International Law Association’s (ILA) French Branch and the Board of Experts of the Hague Centre for Law and Arbitration. Pierre-Emmanuel holds a postgraduate degree in International Dispute Resolution from the University of Paris XII, a Master’s degree in Private Law from the University of Nantes, and a Diploma of Notary from the University of Aix-Marseille. His lectures and extensive publications have covered topics related to public international law, international dispute settlement, environmental law, investment treaty arbitration and international economic law.

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Professor Gudmundur Eiriksson is Professor and Executive Director, Centre for International Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law School and Advisor, International Office and Global Initiatives, O.P. Jindal Global University. Professor Eiriksson served with the United Nations in New York from 1974 to 1977. He then joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and served as Assistant Legal Adviser, Legal Adviser and Ambassador of Iceland in Ottawa (2003 - 2005), Pretoria (2008 - 2009) and New Delhi (2009 - 2014). He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1987 to 1996 and a

Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1996 to 2002. He was a member of Icelandic delegations in numerous international forums, including the Council of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization where he served as President from 1984 to 1988. Professor Eiriksson has lectured on international law at 40 Universities, worldwide, including from 1987 to 1996 at the University of Iceland, from 1994 to 1995 at the University of New Mexico School of Law and from 2001 to 2003 and 2005 to 2008 at the University for Peace, where he co-founded and co-directed the Programme on International Law and Human Rights. Professor Eiriksson is the author of The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Nijhoff, 2002) and numerous articles on the law of the sea, legal education, international criminal law, international organizations, international relations, disarmament and human rights. He holds an A.B. degree and a B.S. degree (Civil Engineering) from Rutgers, an LL.B. (Hon.) degree from King's College, London and an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School. He is a Fellow of King's College, London.

Professor Erik Franckx is full-time research professor, President of the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has been appointed by Belgium as: expert in maritime boundary delimitation to the International Hydrographic Organization (2005 - ); member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2006 - ); and arbitrator under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (2014 - ). He served as a consultant to governments (foreign as well as the three levels of the Belgian structure, i.e. the federal, regional and community level), international, supranational and non-governmental organizations.

He is at present legal counsel on behalf of the Netherlands in the Arctic Sunrise Arbitration against the Russian Federation (2013 - ). He has published widely in the area of the law of the sea (for a complete list, see http://www.vub.ac.be/IERE/efranen.html).

Professor Maria Gavouneli LL.B. (Honours) (Athens); LL.M. (Cantab); Ph.D. (Cantab) (Paul Guggenheim Prize); Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Athens; Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; visiting professor and lecturer in several universities and research institutions. Member of several academic organisations, including the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (visiting

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researcher in 2000); the American Society of International Law (co-chair of the Law of the Sea Interest Group – LOSIG, 2012-2015); the European Society of International Law (co-convenor of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea – LAWSEA, 2014-2016); the Association internationale du droit de la mer (Assidmer); the International Law Association (Secretary-General of the Hellenic Branch); the Hellenic Society of International Law & International Relations (Secretary-General); the Hellenic Arbitration Association; the ILA Committee on international law and sea-level rise (2013-); having served in the Committee on the legal principles relating to climate change, member and co-author of the 2014 Washington Declaration on the legal principles relating to climate change (2010-2014); and co-rapporteur, Committee on transnational enforcement of environmental law (2005-2006). Attorney-at-law and Arbitrator under ICC rules, other domestic rules and Greek law; counsel, legal advisor and consultant in energy and environmental matters; arbitrator with the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE).

Kristina Maria Gjerde is Senior High Seas Policy Advisor to IUCN’s Global Marine and Polar Programme. With IUCN, Kristina has focused on promoting reforms to the laws and institutions that govern the high seas and international seabed beyond national jurisdiction, working at the nexus of marine law, science and policy. To that end, Kristina has spearheaded IUCN’s delegation at among others the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity and more recently the International Seabed Authority and the UN Preparatory Committee, which is developing recommendations for a new treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national boundaries. Kristina is also Adjunct

Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and the author or coauthor of more than 100 publications on law of the sea, fisheries, shipping, deep seabed mining and marine biodiversity conservation issues. In addition, Kristina has co-founded a mix of scientific and civil society collaborative partnerships including the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (2012), the High Seas Alliance (2011), the Sargasso Sea Alliance (now the Sargasso Sea Commission) (2010) the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (2008) and the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (2004). A graduate of the New York University School of Law, Kristina received her BA in history (summa cum laude) from the University of California, Los Angeles. After 17 years living in Warsaw, Poland, Kristina now splits her time living in Warsaw and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Relevant publications include: Gjerde et al. 2016. “Protecting Earth’s last conservation frontier: scientific, management and legal priorities for MPAs beyond national boundaries,” Aquatic Conservation; Mahon et al, 2015. Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme (TWAP) Assessment of Governance Arrangements for the Ocean, Volume 2: Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. UNESCO-IOC; Brooks et al, 2014. “Challenging the ‘Right to Fish’ in a Fast-Changing Ocean” Stanford Environmental Law Journal/Stanford Journal of Law, Science, & Policy; and Druel & Gjerde, 2014, “Sustaining marine life beyond boundaries: the need for and potential content of an UNCLOS Implementing Agreement for marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction” (Marine Policy).

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Judge Vladimir Golitsyn is President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Judge Golitsyn is a national of the Russian Federation. He has been active in the field of International Law for almost four decades. At the Government level, as Head of the Division of Public International Law in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the former USSR and as head or member of delegations at various negotiations on fishery, navigation and maritime boundary matters, as well as the Arctic and Antarctica. In July 2007, he acted as Chief Legal Counsel of the delegation/team of the Russian Federation in the proceedings in two prompt release cases brought by Japan against the Russian Federation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (the “Hoshinmaru” and the “Tomimaru” cases).

At the United Nations, where he worked for 25 years, in the Office of the Legal Counsel and as Director of the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, he was involved in a wide range of legal, in particular environmental and maritime matters, as well as such issues as the establishment and implementation of the oil-for-food programme for Iraq, negotiation of arrangements related to the Lockerbie case, assistance in the demarcation of boundary between Iraq and Kuwait, assistance in the implementation of the Algiers Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia concerning boundary issues, assistance in the implementation of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice concerning the boundary dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria, assistance in facilitation by the Secretary-General of negotiations between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea on maritime boundary, etc. Judge Golitsyn is currently Vice-President of the Russian Association of Maritime Law, Professor of international law at the Moscow State University. He also teaches at the Rhodes Summer Academy of Oceans Law and Policy and the Summer Academy of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea in Germany. Judge Golitsyn has been President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea since 1st October 2014, and before that he was for three preceding years President of the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the Tribunal.

Bill Hayton is an associate fellow of Chatham House and a journalist with the BBC. He is the author of The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia, named one of The Economist’s Books of the Year in 2014. His previous book Vietnam: Rising Dragon describes the diplomatic, social, political, and economic issues facing modern Vietnam. Hayton has presented widely on the South China Sea and other Southeast Asian issues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Nicholas A. Ioannides is completing his PhD in Public International Law at the University of Bristol. His thesis entitled “The Eastern Mediterranean States’ Approach to the Law of the Sea: Tensions and Trends’ focuses on the application of the law of the sea rules in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea in the light of hydrocarbon discoveries in the region. He received his LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2010 and earned an LLM in Public

International Law from the University of Bristol in 2012, while he was called to the bar in Cyprus in 2011. Nicholas is also interested in the Law of Use of Force, the Law of Armed Conflict, the Law of International Organisations and Jurisprudence. He is a member of the European Society of International Law; the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations; the International Law Association (Greek and Cypriot Branches); the Cyprus Bar Association and the Famagusta Bar Association.

Frederick J Kenney currently serves as the Director of Legal and External Affairs at the International Maritime Organization, London. In this capacity, he is responsible for advising the Secretary-General on all legal issues associated with the functioning of the Organization, with special emphasis on matters of treaty law and the law of the sea. He provides legal counsel to the Secretariat staff supporting IMO’s committees and subcommittees and has particular responsibility as Secretary for the Organization’s Legal Committee. He oversees the

Organization’s role as depositary for the 53 multilateral conventions adopted under the aegis of IMO. He also oversees the operation of the IMO’s Public Information Service, its Maritime Knowledge Centre and External Relations Office. Prior to coming to IMO, Mr. Kenney served as The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the United States Coast Guard, attaining the rank of Rear Admiral. He was responsible for the delivery of all legal services to the USCG around the globe, with oversight of nearly 300 attorneys and 100 legal support personnel. He served as a Coast Guard judge advocate for 22 years of a thirty-three year military career, including service as the Coast Guard’s Chief of Maritime and International Law and a secondment to the US Department of State in the Office of Oceans Affairs. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to twelve different IMO committees and subcommittees and from 2009-2011, was the Head of the US Delegation to the IMO Legal Committee. He also served on several legal capacity-building missions in developing countries on behalf of the United States. Mr. Kenney has spent nearly 5 years at sea, including service on a polar icebreaker as a deck watch officer and conducting law enforcement and security operations. Mr. Kenney previously served as a judge on the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals, and has extensive experience as prosecutor, defense counsel and appellate counsel in criminal cases. He also served as lead agency counsel in cases before the United States Supreme Court, and in the litigation arising from the Macondo 252/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mr. Kenney holds a juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the USF Maritime Law Journal. He also holds a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University. Mr. Kenney has published several law review articles, has lectured widely, and was an adjunct professor of maritime law at Georgetown University Law Center and the US Defense Institute for International Legal Studies.

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Judith Levine is Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organization established by treaty in 1899 which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations and private parties. The PCA’s current caseload encompasses over 100 diverse disputes involving territorial, maritime, treaty and environmental disputes between states as well as commercial and investment cases under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. Judith has served as the Registrar in the South China

Sea arbitration between Philippines and China, the Atlanto-Scandian herring arbitration between Denmark and the European Union, and the Abyei arbitration between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army. She has provided assistance to tribunals in some of the world’s largest investor-state and commercial cases. Judith also assists the PCA Secretary-General in the appointment of arbitrators, and frequently writes and presents on issues of public international law and dispute resolution. From 2011 to 2012, Judith served as the PCA Representative and Legal Officer in Mauritius, assisting with implementation of the Mauritius International Arbitration Act and educational and outreach activities to promote PCA services and Mauritius as a venue for international disputes resolution in the African region. Judith is a visiting lecturer on arbitration of climate change related disputes at King’s College London. She has recently been appointed to the list of arbitrators of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Professor Ronán Long holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and a Personal Professorship at the School of Law at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). He is the author/co-editor of nine books and over 100 scholarly articles on oceans law and policy. He worked previously for the European Commission (1994–2002) and the Naval Service in Ireland (1981-1993). He was a Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Law of the Sea Institute, Berkeley (2016), and a Visiting Scholar at the Center Oceans Law and Policy at University

of Virginia (2007). He has participated as both a member and adviser of the European Union delegation at numerous international negotiations on the codification and development of international law of the sea. His current research interests are in the fields of protecting marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, the legal basis for marine ecological restoration, maritime security law, as well as human rights as they apply to activities that take place at sea. He is a research leader in EU H2020 projects MERCES and ATLAS. Ronán is a keen sailor and has represented Ireland at the top competitive level in ocean racing.

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Belinda McRae is a barrister at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London. She practises in all areas of commercial law, including maritime-related disputes. She has a particular specialisation in public international law, international arbitration and private international law. She has appeared in the UK’s Supreme Court and before international arbitral tribunals under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, CRCICA and LCIA rules in high-profile cases. Before joining 20 Essex Street, Belinda worked for Judge James Crawford (of the International Court of Justice) at the University of Cambridge, at two international criminal tribunals (the ICTR in Tanzania and the ECCC in

Cambodia) and at the High Court of Australia.

Stephen Minas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Transnational Law Institute and Visiting Lecturer and PhD candidate (Modern Law Review Scholar) at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Stephen is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee's Task Force on climate technology financing. Stephen is currently co-convening the project "Strengthening Europe’s sustainable energy and climate technology diplomacy ", a

collaboration with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Fondation Jean-Jaurès. Stephen is in addition an honorary fellow within the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Stephen has taught at postgraduate and undergraduate level, including in the areas of international economic law, transnational law, climate change law, energy law and the external relations of the EU. Stephen previously worked as an adviser to the Premier of Victoria, Australia and for members of the Australian Parliament. He holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, Honours degrees in Law and History from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice. Stephen is admitted as an Australian lawyer and has completed the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center’s Tribunal Secretary Accreditation Programme.

Penelope Nevill is a barrister at 20 Essex Street in London. Her practice covers international and domestic litigation and advisory work in the field of public international law, including investment arbitration, law of the sea, territory, delimitation, immunities and jurisdiction, recognition, environment and wildlife law, sanctions and human rights and EU law. Her work includes commercial and public law cases raising elements of public international law and EU law. She has a particular focus on the interrelationship between the

international, EU and domestic legal systems. Penelope has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and a Permanent Court of Arbitration tribunal under UNCLOS. Annex VII, as well as the English courts. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Transnational Law Institute, King's College London. She has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Auckland in International Dispute Settlement and the University of Cambridge in the Law of Armed Conflict (IHL), having previously been a College Lecturer and Fellow at Downing College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

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Dr Alexandros X.M. Ntovas joined Queen Mary's Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), in January 2016 as a Lecturer in Shipping Law. Prior to that, he had held a law lectureship in international law at the University of Southampton Law School, where he was also a Governing Board Member of the Institute of Maritime Law. He has studied under a number of prestigious scholarships for law and political sciences in Greece, England, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. His background amalgamates the broader legal disciplines of international and European law, at both public and private level, with political analysis and international relations, as these find a common expression in the context of

shipping law, the law of the sea and oceanic policy. He belongs to the new generation of hybrid shipping lawyers, who are competent to perceive, appreciate and undertake the challenging task of dealing with a ship as one single economic, social, commercial and – at times when the flag State extents diplomatic protection to her in international proceedings– sovereign entity. He has practiced public and administrative law, and acted on numerous occasions as a policy advisor to governments, including the European Union, the public sector and the shipping industry. His expertise within CCLS lies in admiralty, with a focus on wet shipping law, navigational freedoms and practice, as well as in all issues regarding piracy and other aspects of contemporary safety and security of ships, ports and offshore installations. In addition, he leads the LLM in International Shipping Law (Piraeus, Greece), and is an active member of the QMUL's Insurance Law Institute, regarding shipping matters, and Energy and Natural Resources Law Institute, in relation to oceanic policy and law of the sea affairs.

Professor Nilufer Oral is a member of the Law Faculty at Istanbul Bilgi University. She also advises the Turkish Foreign Ministry on climate change and law of the sea. She has served as a climate change negotiator for the Turkish Delegation. She is a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law School. She has also lectured several times at the Rhodes Academy of the Law of the Sea. She was elected to the IUCN Council for Western Europe (2012-2106); serves as Chair of the IUCN Academy on Environmental Law (2013-2017) and is co-chair of the Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs

for the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She served as a member of the legal team that represented the IUCN before the International Tribunal for the Law Sea on International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on the Advisory Opinion in Case #21 concerning IUU fishing in West Africa. She has published extensively on international law relating to protection of the marine environment.

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Dr Kate Parlett is a barrister at 20 Essex St Chambers in London. She specialises in public international law and international arbitration. She acts for States and private entities on issues including land and maritime boundaries, investment treaty and contract disputes, human rights, law of the sea, State responsibility, treaty obligations, immunities, environmental law, sanctions and international crimes. Kate regularly appears as advocate before the International Court of Justice. Kate is currently instructed in land and maritime boundary disputes as

well as in cases concerning transboundary environmental harm. In view of Kate’s expertise in the law of the sea, she has recently been appointed to the consultant panel for the Commonwealth Secretariat on Oceans and Natural Resources, covering matters including maritime boundary delimitations and joint development zones for natural resources. Kate also represents States and investors in investment treaty arbitrations, under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, and companies in international commercial arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and SCC Rules. She has also advised clients on how to structure their investments in order to take advantage of protections offered by investment treaties and foreign investment laws. Kate has a doctorate and a masters degree in public international law from the University of Cambridge and is widely published, particularly in the law of international dispute settlement. She has lectured in public international law, international investment and commercial arbitration and international human rights law, at the universities of Cambridge, Geneva, Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas) and Queensland.

Niccolò Ridi is a PhD candidate (Modern Law Review Scholar) and Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and a Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His research focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of the use of precedent by international courts and tribunals and its significance in their institutional dialogue. He is also part of a Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project led by Professor Thomas Schultz on principles of private and public international law. He holds degrees from the University of Florence (LLB/MA) and the University of

Cambridge (LLM) and has published and presented on a variety of areas of international law.

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Mariamalia Rodriguez Chaves is an environmental lawyer and lecturer, who also undertakes consultancy services for the Pew Charitable Trusts and the MarViva Foundation. She holds law and LLM degrees from the University of Costa Rica and is a member of the Costa Rican Bar Association. As a final year PhD candidate at NUIG, she is writing about the regionalisation of global biodiversity commitments in areas beyond national jurisdiction with a particular focus on the Costa Rica Dome. Her publications include the “Anatomy of a new international instrument for marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction: First impressions of the preparatory process” (Long, Rodriguez Chaves 2016), and the “Proposal

for the establishment of a Regional management framework for the Costa Rica Dome” (Rodriguez Chaves, 2013). Mariamalia is following the BBNJ negotiation process and is participating in the European Union’s ATLAS project, which is undertaking a trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-sea ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe.

Richard Schofield is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, King's College London. Richard founded the highly-rated Geopolitics (and International Boundaries) journal in 1996 and took up a full-time post during 1997 in SOAS Geography to launch and convene the Masters programme in International Boundary Studies. This survives at King’s in modified and expanded form to constitute Geography’s well-regarded Geopolitics, Territory and Security programme. Richard made the short hop down to the Strand in 2001 with the merger of the SOAS and King’s Geography departments. In addition to convening the aforementioned Masters programme, he teaches a popular 2nd year

undergraduate module – Territory, State and Nation. Ten doctoral students have now successfully completed their theses under Richard’s supervision. He is also currently Chair of the SSPP Postgraduate Taught (Masters) Examinations Board. Richard continues to advise state governments, law and oil companies on contemporary territorial issues and frequently appears on the media to discuss such matters. His publications were used as the base references in the settlement of the Iraq-Kuwait (1993) and Saudi Arabia-Yemen (2000) territorial disputes, while he made a decisive impact as an expert witness in the Abyei arbitration at the PCA during 2008-9. Richard’s major study Arabian Boundaries: New Documents, 1966-1975 was released in 2009-10 by Cambridge University Press in 18 volumes. In April 2013 he co-convened (with Volterra Fietta and the UK Law of the Sea Division) the inaugural London International Boundary Conference at the Royal Geographical Society. Current research projects include The Unique Geopolitics of Island Sovereignty Disputes and Border Geographies: Historiography, Ethnography and Law.

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Andrew Shearer joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in May 2016 as senior adviser on Asia-Pacific Security. He is also director of a new CSIS project on alliances and American leadership. Mr. Shearer was previously national security adviser to Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott of Australia. In that capacity, he played a leading role in formulating and implementing Australian foreign, defense, and counter-terrorism policies. He provided high-level advice that shaped Australian government

decisions on engagement with the Asia-Pacific region, defense capabilities, responses to international crises and terrorist incidents, and longer-term strategic challenges. Mr. Shearer has more than 25 years of experience in intelligence, national security, diplomacy, and alliance management. He was political minister-counselor at the Australian embassy in Washington, D.C. Earlier, he was strategic policy adviser to former Australian defence minister Robert Hill and held positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs of Trade, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Office of National Assessments (Australia’s premier intelligence analysis organization). As the deputy secretary advising the former Victorian state premier on international engagement, Mr. Shearer led the development of a comprehensive trade and investment strategy, establishing new representational offices in China and Indonesia. Mr. Shearer is a respected commentator on Asia-Pacific strategic issues. He was director of studies at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and his analysis has been published in books, journals, and leading U.S., Australian, and Asian newspapers. He holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and honors degrees in law and arts from the University of Melbourne. He was awarded a UK Foreign Office Chevening Scholarship.

Dr Nima Mersadi Tabari was appointed Lecturer in Law at Swansea University in 2015. He is a GradEI member of the Energy Institute, holds a BSc Hons in Mathematics and Statistics, an LLB Hons in Law, an LLM in International Commercial Law and completed his PhD, titled “International Investment Law and Lex Petrolea: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment in Upstream Oil and Gas in the Persian Gulf Region”, in May 2015. Before joining Swansea, Nima had taught International Investment Law, World Trade Law, International Commercial Law

and International Mooting at King’s College London and WTO Law at SOAS. He has been a dispute resolution consultant focusing on the petroleum industry in particular and commercial and investment arbitration in general and has served as a case author, judge, arbitrator and coach in many international mooting competitions including Vis, Jessup, FDI and Telders Moots. Nima is broadly interested in petroleum law, legal history and international and transnational dispute resolution including commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, international adjudication and WTO dispute settlement. He is in particular focused on investment treaty arbitration and the advent of lex petrolea. Nima teaches International Commercial Arbitration and International Corporate Law and Governance on the LLM level.

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Professor Anastasia Telesetsky is a Professor at the University of Idaho where she teaches in the natural resource and environmental law program. In 2016, she was an Ian Axford Public Policy Fellow sponsored by the Ministry for Primary Industries in New Zealand to write an independent research report on fisheries discards. Her scholarship on marine issues focuses on Asia-Pacific ocean issues and she is a participant in the Asia-Pacific Ocean Law Institutions Alliance and an editorial board member of the Asia Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy. She is a co-editor of International Law of Disaster

Relief and a co-author of Ecological Restoration and Law to be published in December 2016.

Professor Guglielmo Verdirame is Professor of International Law and joined King’s in September 2011. Before coming to King’s, he was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (2003-2011); a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2000-2003); and a Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (1997-98). He also held a visiting appointment at Harvard Law School (2007) and was Director of Studies for Public International Law

at the Hague Academy of International Law (2006). Professor Verdirame is the author of The UN and Human Rights: Who Guards the Guardians? (2011, CUP), Winner of the Biennial ACUNS Book Award, and of Rights in Exile (Berghahn Books, 2005), as well as numerous articles and chapters in books.

Professor Robert Volterra has been recognised for many years in the global legal directories as one of the world's top public international law practitioners. He is qualified as a barrister in Canada and as a solicitor-advocate in England and Wales. He is a principal of Volterra

Fietta, a Visiting Professor of International Law at University College

(UCL), University of London, and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at King's College, University of London. Robert advises and represents governments, international organisations and private clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious public international law and international dispute resolution issues, including international

boundaries, sovereign immunities, the Law of the Sea, transboundary resources and bilateral investment treaties. He regularly acts as co-agent, counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice and ad hoc international arbitration tribunals, including under the Permanent Court of Arbitration, ICSID, ICC, SCC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, WTO and UNCLOS rules. He regularly sits as an arbitrator in ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and LCIA arbitrations.

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Dr. Paul von Mühlendahl is an associate based in the Paris office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. His practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law, in particular the law of the sea. Dr. von Mühlendahl publishes on various aspects of public international law, including his book L’équidistance dans la délimitation des frontières maritimes (Pedone, 2016). He lectures on public international law at the Université Paris-Sud and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Dr. von Mühlendahl holds master degrees from Sciences Po and the Université Paris-Sud, and obtained a Ph.D. in public international law, with highest honors, in 2012.

Mubarak A. Waseem holds an LL.B. and AKC from King's College, London ('KCL'). He is currently studying for the English Bar at City Law School, and is an LL.M. candidate at KCL, specialising in International Dispute Resolution. He has worked as a research assistant at the British Institute of International Law, KCL and 20 Essex Street Chambers. In this capacity, he has assisted with national and international law cases and arbitrations, including the Chagos arbitration between Mauritius and the United Kingdom, and

investment arbitrations under NAFTA and the Energy Charter Treaty. Most recently, he was an intern at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, where he assisted head legal officer, Ximena Hinrichs.

Dr Philippa Webb is Reader in Public International Law. She joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in 2012 after a decade in international legal practice. She was previously visiting Assistant Professor in the Advanced LLM Programme at Leiden University (2009-2011). She has been Visiting Professor at Université Paris X Nanterre (2013-14) and ESADE Law School (2014-15 as part of their programme at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies). She was an Adjunct Professor of Law on Pepperdine University’s London program (2014-15). Dr Webb holds a doctorate (JSD) and an LLM from Yale Law School. She obtained the University Medal in her LLB and

the University Medal and First Class Honours in her BA (Asian Studies), both of which were awarded by the University of New South Wales in Australia. Dr Webb has extensive experience in international courts and tribunals. She served as the Special Assistant and Legal Officer to Judge Rosalyn Higgins during her Presidency of the International Court of Justice (2006-2009) and, prior to that, as the Judicial Clerk to Judges Higgins and Owada (2004-2005). She was the Associate Legal Adviser to Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at the International Criminal Court (2005-2006). She is on the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute’s project Restatement Fourth, Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Dr Webb has served as legal advisor to the Inquiry launched by United Nations human rights rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC into the use of drones in counter-terrorism operations. She was elected as co-convenor of the International Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars in 2014.

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Professor Sam Wordsworth QC is a member of Essex Court Chambers and practicing at the English Bar from 1998 to date, specialising in public international law and international arbitration. He is regularly instructed as counsel in investment treaty cases, and is likewise regularly instructed by various governments in State/State cases and has appeared before international tribunals including the International Court of

Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and tribunals set up pursuant to Annex VII of the Convention on the Law of the Sea. He is Chairman of the Public International Law Advisory Committee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and co-author of Halsbury’s International Relations Law. He is a Visiting Professor teaching investment arbitration at Kings College London.

Professor Keyuan ZOU is Harris Professor of International Law at the Lancashire Law School of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), United Kingdom. He specializes in international law, in particular law of the sea and international environmental law. Before joining UCLan, he worked at Dalhousie University (Canada), Peking University (China), University of Hannover (Germany) and National University of Singapore. He has

published over 60 refereed English papers in over 30 international journals including Asian Yearbook of International Law, Asia-Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Chinese Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Criminal Law Forum, German Yearbook of International Law, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, International Lawyer, Journal of Environmental Law, Journal of International Maritime Law, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Marine Policy, Maritime Policy and Management, Netherlands International Law Review, Ocean Development and International Law, Ocean Yearbook, Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law, Ocean and Coastal Management and Yearbook Law and Legal Practice in East Asia. His single-authored books include Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and Prospects (London/New York: Routledge, 2005), China’s Marine Legal System and the Law of the Sea (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005), China’s Legal Reform: Towards the Rule of Law (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006), and China-ASEAN Relations and International Law (Oxford: Chandos, 2009). His recent co-edited volumes include Securing the Safety of Navigation in East Asia (Oxford: Chandos, 2013), Non-traditional Security Issues and the South China Sea (Ashgate, 2014), Arbitration concerning the South China Sea: Philippines v. China (Ashgate, 2016).