Vasco Becker-Weinberg is Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Lusófona and at NOVA School of Law, and President of the IPDM – The Portuguese Institute of the Law of the Sea. He is also Law Clerk at the Portuguese Constitutional Court.

Brita Bohman is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at Stockholm University. Her main research is focused on legal aspects of social-ecological resilience and ecosystem approach. She is also specialized in Baltic Sea law.

Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo is a PhD researcher at the University of Basel. He holds a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute of Geneva (IHEID) and an LLB from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Agnes Chong is Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chong’s research interests include international law, watercourses law, environmental law and human rights law. She obtained her PhD from the University of Hong Kong and, after that, was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge.

Jakub Ciesielczuk is a lecturer in public international law at Neapolis University Pafos. He obtained his LLB in English law with German from the University of Dundee. He also holds an LLM in public international law from Leiden University. Ciesielczuk is currently finalizing his PhD in public international law at the University of Lincoln.

Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny is an assistant professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University. Their research revolves around law and marine biodiversity, political ecology, trans justice and critical theory.

Sarah Ryan Enright is an Irish qualified lawyer with more than fifteen years’ experience in European and International Law. She is currently a researcher in ocean law and marine governance at MaREI: the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, University College Cork, where she completed a PhD on the international legal framework for transboundary Marine Protected Areas.

Solène Guggisberg is a senior research associate at Utrecht University, currently working on the regulation of Antarctic tourism. She has previously undertaken postdoctoral research on international fisheries law, and worked for international governmental and nongovernmental organizations involved in fisheries and maritime affairs as well as for international courts and tribunals.

Leonila Guglya is a counsel leading the International Trade / WTO Law Practice of the SwissLegal Rouiller et Associés office in Geneva and a Professor at Business School Lausanne (BSL) and International Institute in Geneva (IIG). She holds a PhD in international trade law from the University of Geneva (2017) and an SJD in international arbitration from Central European University (2010), both summa cum laude.

Rozemarijn J. Roland Holst is Assistant Professor in International Environmental Law at Durham University. She previously taught at Utrecht University, where she also obtained her PhD (cum laude). She holds an LLM with distinction from the University of Edinburgh and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam.

Dawoon Jung is a research fellow at the Centre for International Law, the National University of Singapore. She is also an associate editor of the Asian Journal of International Law. She holds law degrees from the University of Edinburgh (PhD) and Korea University (LLM, LLB).

David Langlet is currently a professor of environmental law at Uppsala University, and has previously held positions as a professor of ocean governance law at Gothenburg University and research fellow at the University of Oxford. He has researched a wide range of topics in the fields of environmental law, law of the sea and energy law.

Mitchell Lennan is a Lecturer in Law (Energy & Environment) at the University of Aberdeen. He joined Aberdeen in December 2022 after completing a PhD in law of the sea at the University of Strathclyde. His research focuses on the regulation of marine resources in the face of climate change.

Froukje Maria Platjouw is a Senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Water Researcher, specialized in environmental and marine law and governance. Her research aims to strengthen the effectiveness, harmonization and coherence of legal frameworks for a better protection of the environment. She obtained her PhD at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law. She coordinates the Horizon Europe funded research and innovation project ‘CrossGov’.

Alla Pozdnakova has researched and published broadly on law of the sea and maritime safety, environmental law, outer space law, Arctic, and European law. She is a board member of the International Law Association (Norway), and member of the International Institute for Space Law and of the expert committee for Norwegian space law.

Henrik Ringbom is Professor of Marine Law at Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and holds a part-time professorship at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law (University of Oslo). His career also includes eleven years as an EU civil servant, at the European Commission in Brussels and the European Maritime Safety Agency in Lisbon.

Aref Shams is a PhD student in international law at University College London. He holds a master’s degree in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a bachelor of laws from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

Anastasia Telesetsky’s research focuses on marine environmental protection, food security, disaster risk reduction and ecological restoration . She is the co-author of Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law, the textbook Comparative and Global Environmental Law and Policy, and the Ocean and Coastal Management Law in a Nutshell.

David Testa is a legal counsel at the London office of Det Norske Veritas. He has a PhD in shipping, law of the sea and marine environment protection from the University of Nottingham and an LLM in public international law from the University of Cambridge.

Andrey Todorov is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative, and Senior Researcher at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Russian Academy of Sciences). He holds a PhD with interests in Arctic Ocean governance and the international Law of the Sea.

Christina Voigt is an expert in international environmental law and works in particular on legal issues of climate change, biodiversity conservation, environmental multilateralism and sustainability. She is also chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and co-chair of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee.

Pieter van Welzen is a senior legal consultant with CMS South Africa, advising on financial markets transactions. He is also a PhD student at the University of Hamburg, researching the international legal regime applying to illegal fishing, with a particular focus on West Africa.

Kirsi White is a doctoral candidate at the University of Turku Law School, Finland, with research interest in environmental regulation at regional sea level. She currently works at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment as a Senior Officer, Legal Affairs. She holds law degrees from the University of Hertfordshire (LLM, GDL) and BPP University College London (LPC).

Maurus Wollensak is currently a master’s degree student in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He holds a First State Exam in law with a specialization in European and public international law undertaken at the University of Hamburg.

Constantinos Yiallourides is a lecturer in international law at Macquarie University Sydney, specializing in the law of the sea, and the intersection of sustainability and energy transformation. He is concurrently the Arthur Watts research fellow in law of the sea at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) where he leads the Institute’s Watts Programme of research and training in the law of the sea, energy and natural resources law.