Notes on Contributors
Kees Bastmeijer
is Professor of Nature Conservation and Water Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University; Program Director for Sustainability of the Tilburg University; and Visiting Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. His research relates to international, European, and domestic environmental law, with a special emphasis on the role of law in protecting nature. His latest publication is the edited volume Wilderness Protection in Europe: The Role of International, European and National Law (Cambridge University Press 2016).
Brita Bohman
is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at Stockholm University since 2018 and currently holds a Post-Doctoral position in Ocean Governance Law at the University of Gothenburg (2018–2019), where her main research is on legal aspects of sustainable fisheries and the EU Common Fisheries Policy. She finished her dissertation, Transboundary Law for Social-Ecological Resilience? A Study on Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea Area, in February 2017. Since then she has had a short-term position as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland (2017) with the ‘BaltReg project’ on multi-level governance and regulation in the Baltic Sea region. She has also been working as a consultant for the Ministry of Environment in Finland (2017).
David Fluharty
is Associate Professor at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in natural resource conservation and planning from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. Besides his teaching and research, Fluharty has served as a participant-advisor in state, national and international capacities. He has engaged in research in northern Europe, northern Asia and West Africa. His recent work is in the areas of implementation of ecosystem-based ocean management, fisheries management and climate variability and change.
Michael Gilek
is Professor in Environmental Studies at Södertörn University and has extensive research experience on the assessment, management and governance of marine environmental issues such as hazardous chemicals and eutrophication. In his current research, Gilek leads international interdisciplinary studies analyzing environmental governance and marine spatial planning in the Baltic Sea. Recent publications include the edited volumes Governing Europe’s Marine Environment (Routledge/Ashgate 2015) and Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea (Springer 2016).
Sue Kidd
is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool. She has acted as an advisor to the EU, UK government departments, government agencies, regional and local authorities and NGOs. She has a particular interest in integrated planning and much of her work has focused on sustainable development in coastal and marine areas. She has been at the forefront of the theory and practice of marine spatial planning and is currently engaged in a range of projects assisting the rollout of new marine planning and management arrangements in the Celtic Seas and wider European seas.
David Langlet
is Professor in Ocean Governance Law, Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. He has previously worked as Senior Lecturer and subject-director of environmental law at the Department of Law, Stockholm University and he has been a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University and Christ Church. In his research, Langlet has engaged with a wide range of topics in the fields of environmental law, law of the sea, energy law, and international economic law. He has served as a member of the International Jury of the Elisabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law. His many publications include EU Environmental Law and Policy (with S Mahmoudi) (Oxford University Press 2016).
Alison MacDonald
is Doctoral Candidate, School of Law, University of Aberdeen. Her thesis focuses on marine spatial planning in Scotland. She qualified as a Scottish solicitor in 2009 and was involved as a Research Assistant in an EU-funded project with Anne-Michelle Slater, researching and advising on a marine planning framework for Irish waters (2013).
Collins Odote
is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP), University of Nairobi. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, with a Ph.D. in law from the University of Nairobi with a specialization in land and environmental law. His research interests span property theory, natural resource management, environmental law and governance. He has written widely on issues to do with land, environment and natural resource governance, with the latest book being the co-edited volume The Galant Academic: Essays in Honour of HWO Okoth Ogendo (School of Law, University of Nairobi 2017).
Froukje Maria Platjouw
is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Marine Law at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo and a Research Scientist at the Section for Water and Society at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research. She published a book, based upon her Ph.D., entitled Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach: Maintaining Ecological Integrity through Consistency in Law (Routledge 2016). She has a general interest in comparative legal research; analysing matters of fragmentation and consistency between national legislation, EU and international legislation and how this affects the sustainable governance of transboundary ecosystems.
Rosemary Rayfuse
is Scientia Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law, UNSW and Conjoint Professor in Law at Lund University. In 2017–18 she was the Swedish Research Council Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor at Lund University and from 2014–2017 she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. She researches widely on issues of public international law focusing, in particular, on the law of the sea and protection of the marine environment, international environmental law, and the normative effects of climate change on international law. Her publications include Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond (with Sanja Bogojević) (Hart 2018), The Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (Edward Elgar 2015) and International Law in the Era of Climate Change (with Shirley Scott) (Edward Elgar, 2012).
Fred Saunders
is Associate Professor at Södertörn University. His research background is in participative natural resource governance, conservation and development in East Africa. He has also worked in Australia as a park planner and ranger. He is currently working on several research projects including sustainable transformation approaches for small-scale fishing communities in Chile, Vietnam and South Africa and the role of integration in marine spatial planning in the Baltic Sea.
Eva Schachtner
is Postgraduate Researcher, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e.V. After law studies in Munich, Paris and Barcelona, Ass. iur. Eva Schachtner, Maître en Droit, worked as a Scientific Assistant for the University of Rostock and the Leibniz Institute on projects for the protection of the marine environment. She has previously been a Scientific Assistant in the EU-Project ‘CoCoNet’ on Networks of Marine Protected Areas and Offshore Windfarms. Her most recent publication is “Marine Protected Areas and Marine Spatial Planning, with Special Reference to the Black Sea” in Paul D. Goriup (ed) Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).
Anne-Michelle Slater
is Senior Lecturer and Head, School of Law, University of Aberdeen. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin (Law) and UCD (Planning). An expert in planning law, specialising in marine spatial planning, she is a Member of the Centre for Energy Law as a specialist in terrestrial and marine spatial planning law. Her most recent research is part of an interdisciplinary team, funded by NERC, undertaking cooperative participatory evaluation of renewable technology on ecosystem services using the example of offshore wind farm developments in the Firth of Forth.
Niko Soininen
is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Ocean Governance Law at the Department of Law, University of Gothenburg and Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Eastern Finland. His doctoral thesis is entitled Transparencies in Legality: A Legal Analysis of the Reason-Giving Requirement in Water Management Permitting in Finland. He received two awards for his thesis: the Finnish Lawyers’ Association award for the best legal Ph.D. thesis in Finland in 2016, and the University of Eastern Finland Junior Scholar Award. He has a keen interest in the regulation of complex-adaptive social ecological marine and freshwater systems. In his theoretical work, he focuses on adaptive governance and methods of legal interpretation.
Ignė Stalmokaitė
is Doctoral Candidate in Environmental Studies at Södertörn University. In her Ph.D. project, she is focusing on environmental governance and the adoption of environmental innovations in the shipping sector in the Baltic Sea region. Before starting her doctoral studies, Ignė obtained a Master’s degree in the interdisciplinary Baltic Sea Region study program from the University of Turku, Finland. She has also been part of a research project aiming to examine integration challenges for marine spatial planning in the Baltic Sea area.
Jill Wakefield
is Reader in Law, School of Law, University of Warwick. She specializes in EU Law and International Marine Environmental Law. She has written extensively on damages actions against the European Union, also on accountability and corruption in EU institutions and the position of regional authorities in the institutional architecture of the EU. Among her many publications on EU fisheries law and policy are Reforming the Common Fisheries Policy (Edward Elgar, 2016) and “The Common Fisheries Policy: An Exercise in Marine Exploitation” in Yearbook of European Law, Volume 36 (OUP, 2017).
Aron Westholm
is Doctoral Candidate in Public Law, Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. His research primarily concerns marine spatial planning. Since attaining his LL.M. in 2013, he has worked as a legal practitioner in both the public and private sector, mostly within the field of environmental law. He has also held a position as a Research Assistant at the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment.
Antonia Zervaki
is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is former special advisor on EU maritime policy at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her research interests include international relations theory, international organization, maritime governance and international cultural policies. She is the author of two monographs and numerous contributions in journals and collective volumes. She has participated in several research projects conducted under FP 5, 6 and 7 and other EU programmes on different dimensions of cultural, environmental and maritime governance.