Notes on Contributors
Håkon With Andersen
Professor of modern history at the Department of Historical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1992. History of science and technology as specialty. Leader of the research project 3ROceans: The high seas and deep ocean: Representation, Resources and regulatory governance (https://www.ntnu.edu/3roceans).
Finn Arnesen
has been Professor of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway since 1998.
Lars Olav Askheim
General Counsel at Statnett SF, the Norwegian transmission system operator for electricity.
Catherine Banet
(Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Department of Petroleum and Energy Law, Norway. Her core fields of legal expertise include energy law, environmental law, competition law (state aids), EU/EEA law and law of the sea. She is member of the Advisory Academic Group to the International Bar Association (IBA), Section for Energy, Environment and Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL). Banet is one of the four academic directors of the professional LL.M programme North Sea Energy Law Partnership (NSELP) and co-editor of the annual European Energy Law Reports (EELR). She is Academic Fellow at the Center on Regulation in Europe (CERRE).
Nigel Bankes
is a professor law at the University of Calgary where he holds the chair in natural resources law. He is also an adjunct professor with the KG Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway.
Alvar Braathen
is Professor in geology at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Oslo, Norway.
Yana Evgenyevna Brazovskaya
Associate Professor of the International and Maritime Law Department, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, SaintPetersburg, Russia.
Harald Brekke
is Project Coordinator and Senior Geologist in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), in Stavanger, Norway. In 1996, after more than 10 years as an exploration geologist, he became the project coordinator for the technical part of establishing the outer limits of the continental shelf of Norway in accordance with the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea. He was member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) from 1997 to 2012. He has given advice to many coastal states in the preparation of their submissions to the CLCS. He has been member of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC) of the International Seabed Authority since 2013; currently holding the position as Vice-chair of the Commission. In parallel with his work in the CLCS and the LTC, he has been the NPD coordinator of international Arctic research and mapping projects in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean.
Richard Caddell
Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University, UK.
Chelsea Zhaoxi Chen
is a PhD candidate from China Tsinghua University School of Law researching on energy regulatory law. She obtained her undergraduate law degree from the London School of Economics in the UK and her Master’s degree (JSM) from Stanford Law School in the USA. Before doing her PhD, she worked in London as an English Solicitor specializing in cross-border energy project finance.
Aldo Chircop
is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Maritime Law and Policy. He is based at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada. His current principal fields of research are the international law of the sea and international maritime law. Professor Chircop was consultant to the International Seabed Authority and rapporteur at the 2008 Chatham House and 2012 Beijing meeting of experts on Article 82. He has published extensively and is co-editor of the Ocean Yearbook (Brill).
Joanna Dingwall
PhD, University of Glasgow; LL.M. (International Legal Studies), New York University; DLP, Glasgow Graduate School of Law; LL.B. (First Class Honours), University of Glasgow, is admitted to practice law in Scotland, New York, England and Wales. The author is a public international lawyer currently lecturing international law at the University of Glasgow, School of Law. She is also a lawyer to the Scottish Government concerning legal aspects of Scotland’s offshore renewable energy industry and the marine environment. Previously, the author worked as a London-based public international law and international dispute resolution practitioner for several years.
Edwin Egede
is a Reader in International Law & International Relations at the Cardiff University School of Law & Politics and obtained his PhD in International Law of the Sea from the Cardiff University Law School. Recently, he has been appointed as Expert Consultant on the African Blue Economy by various International Organisations, including the United Nations and the African Union. In addition, he is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria with over 25 years practice experience. Currently, he is a member of the executive of the International Bar Association (IBA) Public Law Committee.
Rolf Einar Fife
Ambassador of Norway to the European Union.
Rosa Greaves
is a Professor II at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is Professor Emeritus (formerly Professor of European Commercial Law) at the University of Glasgow, UK and a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has been a Visiting Professor at Universities in Australia, UK, Europe and the UK. She is a Barrister and member of Inner Temple (London). In 2015 she was elected to membership of the Academia Europaea.
James Harrison
is Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Edinburgh School of Law, UK. He has been a member of staff at Edinburgh Law School since 2007, where he teaches and researches on a wide range of international law topics, including international law of the sea, international environmental law, and international dispute settlement. He has written broadly on these subjects, including two monographs: Making the Law of the Sea: A Study in the Development of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Saving the Oceans through Law: The International Legal Framework for the Protection of the Marine Environment (Oxford University Press, 2017). Alongside his academic work, he has acted as a legal adviser or consultant for a number of governments, inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations.
Catherine Horsfield
Attorney and Programme Head: Mining, Centre for Environmental Rights, Cape Town, South Africa.
David Langlet
is Professor of Ocean Governance Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Langlet is the first incumbent of the Chair in Ocean Governance Law at University of Gothenburg. He has previously held positions as e.g. senior lecturer at Stockholm University and research fellow at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. Langlet’s research has engaged with a range of topics in the fields of environmental law, law of the sea, energy law, and international economic law. Recent books include Langlet D. and Rayfuse R. (eds), The Ecosystem Approach in Ocean Planning and Governance – Perspectives from Europe and Beyond (Brill Nijhoff 2018) and Langlet D. and Mahmoudi S. EU Environmental Law and Policy (OUP 2016).
Alla Pozdnakova
Professor of Law and Chair of the Research Group on International Law and Governance at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Eva Ramirez-Llodra
is a deep-sea ecologist with a PhD from the University of Southampton (UK, 2001). From 2002 to 2010, she was the project manager of ChEss-Census of Marine Life (NOC, UK) and a postdoctoral researcher at ICM-CSIC (Spain, 2005–2013). Since January 2014, she is a Research Scientist at NIVA (Norway) and from June 2019, she is the Science Coordinator at REV Ocean. Her main expertise is in marine biodiversity and early life histories of deep-sea fauna in relation to anthropogenic stressors. She has co-edited 3 special volumes, published over 50 scientific papers and book chapters. She is co-Principal Investigator of the International Network for Scientific Investigations of Deep-Sea Ecosystems (INDEEP) and member of the Advisory Board for the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI).
Rosemary Rayfuse
is Scientia Professor in International Law at UNSW Sydney, Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). Since 2011 she has been a Conjoint Professor in the Faculty of Law at Lund University, Sweden. From 2014–2017 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on issues of oceans governance, including polar oceans governance, high seas fisheries, protection of the marine environment in areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the normative effects of climate change on the law of the sea and international law in general.
Martha M. Roggenkamp
is professor of Energy at the University of Groningen and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability, The Netherlands.
Saul Roux
Science and Policy Specialist, Centre for Environmental Rights, Cape Town, South Africa.
Gulnara Flurovna Ruchkina
Dr., is professor of the International and Maritime Law Department, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He is also Head of the Business and Corporate Law Department, Financial University of the RF Government, Moscow.
Erik Røsæg
is formerly the Director of the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway. He is now at UiO PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order. He teaches and writes in the fields of law of the sea, maritime law, and third party interests in commercial law. He has been much involved in the negotiations of liability Conventions in the IMO, chairs the Norwegian Maritime Law Commission, and has chaired other committees preparing draft legislation. He has published extensively in national and international journals and books, and he has been a speaker and consultant in a number of jurisdictions.
Tullio Scovazzi
is Professor of International Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. He occasionally participates, as legal expert, in negotiations and meetings relating to the sea or cultural properties.
Alexander S. Skaridov
CAPT RN (ret), Professor, Head of the International and Maritime law department of the Russian Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Kristoffer Svendsen
LL.B. (Bond), LL.M. (Bond), LL.M. (MGIMO-University of MFA), and Ph.D. (UiT – the Arctic University of Norway) is a post doctoral fellow at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT – the Arctic University of Norway.
Seline Trevisanut
Professor of International Law and Sustainability, Utrecht Law School, The Netherlands.
Morten Walløe Tvedt
is Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Associate Professor in law at Molde University College. He has published extensively in the area of law and biotechnology. He has a particular research interest in how to translate international law into legally binding obligations on private actors, like multinational companies and university users as intermediaries for product development.
Jaap J.A. Waverijn
is a lawyer at Stibbe and a PhD researcher at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His PhD research focuses on legal questions relating to the ownership of and establishment of security rights concerning offshore energy installations, licenses and subsidies. The aim is to increase legal certainty and thus decrease the cost of capital and attract additional investments. Jaap regularly publishes on competition law and has consulted the Fijian Consumer and Competition Commission. He is a fellow of the Platform for International Energy Governance and associated member of the Transatlantic Maritime Emissions Research Network TRAMEREN. He is a founder of Energy Law Research Community ENERLEX. Jaap holds a Bachelor of Laws in Dutch law from the University of Groningen and an LLM in international and European law from the University of Cambridge.