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Director

International Advisory Board

Research Fellows & Assistants

Academic & Expert Fellows

People Overview

MEPIELAN Centre, in pursuance of its goals, brings together lawyers, political scientists, economists but also natural scientists and engineers to provide an integrated, inter-disciplinary, context-related and sustainably effective law and governance approach. Promoting synergies, MEPIELAN Centre is supported by an International Advisory Board (IAB) consisting of recognized authorities in environmental law and governance around the world, and by distinguished Fellows.

Director

Evangelos Raftopoulos

Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre

Professor Emeritus of International Law
& International Environmental Law

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International Advisory Board

Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons

Head of Division

Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention

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Peter Haas

Professor of Political Science

University of Massachussetts-Amherst, USA

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Elli Louka

President, Law-In-Action

United States

(also an Academic & Expert Fellow)

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Moira L. McConnell

Professor of Law

Dalhousie University, Canada

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José Juste-Ruiz

Professor of International Law

University of Valencia, Spain

Tullio Scovazzi

Professor of International Law

University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

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Academic & Expert Fellows

Steinar Andresen

Research Professor

Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

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Meinhard Doelle (1964-2022)

Professor, Canadian Chair, Marine Environmental Protection

World Maritime University

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Sofia Galani

Assistant Professor in Public International Law

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

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Vassiliki Karageorgou

Assistant Professor, EU Environmental Law and EU Administrative Law

Department of International, European & Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece

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Elli Louka

President, Law-In-Action

United States

(also member of International Advisory Board)

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Ilias Mavroeidis

Programme Management Officer - Governance

United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan

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Irini Papanicolopulu

Associate Professor of International Law

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

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Tullio Scovazzi

Professor of International Law

University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

(also member of International Advisory Board)

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Konstantinos Tsimonis

Lecturer in Chinese Society

King’s College London, UK

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Davor Vidas

Research Professor / Programme Director

Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

Research Fellows

Socrates Zachos

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Senior Research Fellow

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Alexandros Kailis

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Senior Research Fellow

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Ourania Anastassiadou

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

Maria Striga

LL.M (Kent)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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George Raftopoulos

LL.M (UCL)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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Marina Soilemezidou

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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Research Assistants

Ilias Diamantopoulos

B.A. (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Research Assistant

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Evangelos Raftopoulos

Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre

Professor Emeritus of International Law & International Environmental Law

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Ph.D (Cantab), University of Cambridge

Evangelos Raftopoulos is Professor Emeritus of International Law & International Environmental Law, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, and the Founding Director of MEPIELAN Centre. He is also a Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (since 2016).,He has been elected as a Member of the Compliance Committee of the Barcelona Convention system (COP 21 of the Barcelona Convention, Napoli, Italy, 2-5 December 2019) and, recently, as Vice Chair of the Committee (18th Meeting of the Compliance Committee, Athens, Greece, 29-30 June 2022).
Under his Direction MEPIELAN CENTRE has become an officially accredited UNEP/MAP Partner (2013), a Member of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) (2016) and a Member of the MCSD Steering Committee (2019). He currently serves as a Rapporteur of the Steering Committee of the MCSD.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at Downing College, University of Cambridge (2015-2018), and the Director of the Postgraduate Programme Studies at the Department of International, European & Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens (2000-2018). He served, for more than two decades, as a special Legal Adviser to the Mediterranean Action Plan/United Nations Environment Programme (MAP/UNEP) (1987-2010), and was appointed as International Legal Adviser to the Greek Minister of Housing, Public Works and the Environment (1983-1985) and a Lawyer at the Athens Bar Association. He served as the founding Educational Counselor at the Institute of Continual Training, National Centre of Public Administration, Athens (1985-1993). As International Negotiator, he actively participated in more than 70 international environmental conferences and meetings since 1983.
Evangelos Raftopoulos holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge, UK, a Master Degree in International Law from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Law Degree (First Class) from the Faculty of Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has been a Ford Foundation Southern European Fellow of International Law at the Yale Law School at Yale Law School, Yale University, USA (1980 – 1982).

Selected Publications

Books

International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019.
International Negotiations: Theory and Technique of Constructing International Common Interest (in Greek), Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
MEPIELAN E-BULLETIN, Editions 1-12, 2010-2019 (Editor and Contributor).
Conventional Environmental Governance and the Mediterranean or PLUS ULTRA (in Greek), Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2006, Pp. xxii+376 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
Contributions to International Environmental Negotiation in the Mediterranean Context (E. Raftopoulos – M. McConnell, eds.), MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 2, Ant. N. Sakkoulas – Bruylant Publishers, Athens, 2004 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
The New Regime of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Environment – The Problem and the Texts of the Greek Translation (in Greek), MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 1, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 2003 *Second Edition, Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2015.
Course, Theory and Language of International Law - “Objectivity” or International Common Interest? (in Greek),Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens, 1997 *New Edition: Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens, 2014.
Barcelona Convention and Protocols – The Mediterranean Action Plan Regime, Simmonds & Hill Publishing Ltd., London, 1993.
The Inadequacy of the Contractual Analogy in the Law of Treaties, Publications of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law, Vol. 14, Alkyon Publishers, Athens, 1990.

Articles & Book Chapters

“Compliance Procedure: Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea” (2019). In Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (Oxford University Press 2019) <https://opil.ouplaw.com/home/mpil >
“Conventional Environmental Governance in the Mediterranean and its Evolving Institutional and Fiduciary Aspects in a Pragmatic Perspective” (2016). 30 OCEAN YEARBOOK, pp. 129-173.
“Theorizing about Conventional Environmental Sea-Regimes as International Trusts: The Case of the Barcelona Convention System” (2015). In: Contemporary Developments in International Law – Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas (ed. by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Maja Seršić, Trpimir M. Šošić), Brill-Nijhoff, Leiden, Boston, pp. 263-290.
“Sustainability Governance, Public Trust and the Conventional Protection of the Mediterranean Environment” (2013). In: Derecho Del Mar Y Sostenibilidad Ambiental En El Mediterráneo (ed. by José Juste Ruiz & Valentín Bou Franch), Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2013, Primera Parte, Aspectos Generales, pp. 35-58.
“The Mediterranean Response to Global Challenges: Environmental Governance and the Barcelona Convention System” (2011). In: The World Ocean in Globalization – Climate Change, Sustainable Fisheries, Biodiversity, Shipping, Regional Issues (ed. by Davor Vidas & Peter Johan Schei), Martinus Njhoff Publishers (Leiden – Boston), Chapter 27, pp. 507-532.
“The Polluter Pays Principle and Agriculture in Greece” (2009). In: Agriculture and the Polluter Pays Principle (ed. by Peggy Grossman), British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, chapter 3, pp. 61-145.
“Language and the Application of International Environmental Agreements: The Significance of the Greek Translation” (in Greek) (2006). In: The International Community in Movement – Contributions to the Memory of George Tenekides (ed.by S. Perrakis), Panteion University, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers, Athens-Komotini, pp. 329-347.
“Conventional Environmental Governance and the Emerging Public Role of the Individual – The Mediterranean Perspective” (2006). Annuaire International des Droits de l’ Homme, Vol.1, 2006, Ant. N. Sakkoulas – Bruylant, 2006, pp. 299-324.
“Multilateral Governance in the Emerging Regime of Maritime Security” (in Greek). Environment and Law, 2005/2, pp. 197-211.
“Aspects of the Course of International Environmental Law from Stockholm to Johannesburg (1972-2002)” (in Greek).The Critical Review of Legal Theory and Practice, 2003/1, pp. 81-113.
“‘Relational Governance’ For Marine Pollution Incidents in the Mediterranean: Transformations, Development and Prospects” (2001). The International Journal of Marine & Coastal Law, Vol. 16, pp. 41-75.
“The Crisis Over the Imia Rocks and the Aegean Sea Regime: International Law as a Language of Common Interest” (2000). In THE AEGEAN SEA AFTER THE COLD WAR – SECURITY AND LAW OF THE SEA ISSUES (ed. by A. Chircop, A. Gerolymatos and J. Iatrides), Macmillan Press Ltd. & St. Martin’s Press, Inc., Chap. 9, pp. 134-151.
“Sustainable Development and the Mediterranean Action Plan Regime: Legal and Institutional Aspects” (1995). In: Regional Seas Towards Sustainable Development (ed. by Belfiore - Lucia - Pesaro), International Centre for Coastal and Ocean Policy Studies (ICCOPS) and International Geographical Union (IGU), Franco Angeli Publisher, Milan, Italy, 1995, pp. 197-229.
“The Mediterranean Action Plan: Appraisal of a Model for Regional Cooperation” (1993). In: Protecting the Gulf of Aqaba – A Regional Environmental Challenge, Environmental Law Institute (ILA), Washington, D.C., Chapter 15, pp. 315-357.
“The Barcelona Convention System for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution : An International Trust at Work”(1992).The International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law, Vol. 7, pp. 27-41.
“The Mediterranean Action Plan: A Paradigm for Re-thinking International Law” (1990). In: Essays on the New Law of the Sea 2 – Contributions to the Study of Comparative & International Law (ed. by Budislav Vukas), Vol. 24, Zagreb, pp. 243-279.

Areas of Expertise

Theory, Methodology and Philosophy of Public International Law
Theory and Practice of Treaties
International Environmental Law and Governance
Mediterranean Environmental Law, Governance and Practice
Compliance
Sustainability Governance and Public Trust
Theory and Practice of International Creative Negotiation
International Environmental Negotiations
International Organizations
Drafting International Law Instruments

Activities

Member of the Compliance Committee of the Barcelona Convention system (2019-ongoing)
Rapporteur, Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD), MAP/Barcelona Convention system (2019-ongoing)
Fellow, C-EENRG, University of Cambridge (2016-ongoing)

Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons

Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention

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Docteur d’Etat en droit de l’université de Montpellier

Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons has been a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Law (Montpellier) and at the Institute of Political Sciences (Strasbourg). Since 1987 she has worked as a Senior Official at the Council of Europe in the following positions:

1987-1992 - Administrator at the European Court of Human Rights
1992-2000 - Principal Administrator at the Directorate for the Environment and Local Authorities Responsible for the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats

2000-2002 - Head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Division
Responsible for activities: Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy; European Diploma for Protected Areas; Editor of Naturopa Magazine

2002-2012 - Head of the Spatial Planning and Landscape Division
Executive Secretary of the European Conference of Ministers responsible for Regional Planning; Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention; Editor of Futuropa Magazine

2012-2018 - Head of the Landscape and European Heritage Days Division
Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention; Responsible for the European Heritage Days; Editor of Futuropa Magazine

2018-2019 - Head of the Environment, Landscape and Major Hazards Division
Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention; Responsible for the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats; Responsible for the Partial Agreement on Major Hazards

2019-2022 - Landscape and Major Hazards Division
Executive Secretary of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention; Responsible for the Partial Agreement on Major Hazards

Selected Publications

Publications

Publications on: Environment and sustainable development; Coastal and marine areas; Human rights and the environment; Sustainable tourism; Biodiversity; Cultural heritage; Spatial planning and landscape.

Books: Protection and development of the Mediterranean Basin - International texts and documents; The Mediterranean in international environmental law; Human rights and the environment.

Editor of the Futuropa: for a new vision of landscape and territory Magazine

Peter Haas

Professor of Political Science

University of Massachussetts-Amherst, USA

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PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1985

Full professor of political science at University of Massachusetts since 1998 His publications span international environmental cooperation, the role of expertise in world politics, international institutions, global governance, international institutions, and international relations theory He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Oxford University (UK), Brown University, Keio University (Japan) and the Wissenschaftczentrum Berlin (Germany).

Selected Publications

Books

2016 Peter M. Haas Epistemic Communities, Constructivism and International Environmental Politics Routledge.
2013 Norichika Kanie, Steinar Andresen, and Peter M. Haas eds. Improving Global Environmental Governance Routledge/Earthscan.
2012 Peter M. Haas and John Hird eds. Controversies in Globalization 2^nd edition Washington DC: Sage.
2008 Peter M. Haas ed. International Environmental Governance Aldershot: Ashgate.
2006 James Gustave Speth and Peter M. Haas Global Environmental Governance Washington, DC: Island Press. (translated into Korean)
2004 Norichika Kanie and Peter M. Haas and eds. Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance. Tokyo: UNU Press.
2003 Peter M. Haas ed. The International Environment in the New Global Economy 2 volumes Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2001 Social Learning Group (William C. Clark, Josee Van Eijndhoven, Jill Jager eds. Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Acid Rain 2 Volumes Cambridge, MIT Press. (These books present the findings of a multi-year collaborative research project. I am the principal author of one chapter and contributing author to 4 chapters).
1997 Peter M. Haas (ed.) Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 390 pp. Reprint of 1992 International Organization issue.
1993 Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane and Marc Levy (eds.), Institutions for the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection, Cambridge: MIT Press, 448 pp.
1990 Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation New York: Columbia University Press. Paperback edition 1992, 303 pp.

Refereed Journal Articles

2019 Kate O’Neill and Peter M. Haas “Being there: International negotiations as Study Sites in global Environmental Politics” Global Environmental Governance 19:2 (May) pp 4-13.
2019 “IR Encounters Complexity” International Studies Review 21: 2 pp 5-7.
2017 “The Epistemic Authority of Solution Oriented Global Environmental Assessments” Environmental Science and Policy Vol 77 November, pp 221-224.
2017 “Parxit, the United States and the World” Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment 15:3 pp 186-188.
2017 co-author with 15 others “A Road Map for Global Environmental Assessments” Nature Climate Change 7:6 (May 31) pp 379-382.
2016 “Post Paris Climate Change Governance” Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 4: 1.
2015 “Posthegemonic Global Governance” Japanese Journal of Political Science 16:3 pp 434-441.
2012 co-author with 31 others “Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance” Science 335: 6074 pp 1306-1307.
2012 “The Political Economy of Ecology: Prospects for Transforming the World Economy at Rio Plus 20” Global Policy 3:1 pp 94-101.
2012 co-author with 30 others “Transforming Governance and Institutions for Global Sustainability” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4: 51-60.
2008 “Climate Change Governance After Bali” Global Environmental Politics 8:3 pp 1-7.
2004 “When Does Power Listen to Truth? A Constructivist Approach to the Policy Process” Journal of European Public Policy Vol 11 No 4 pp 569-592. Reprinted in Andreas Rechkemmer ed. 2005 UNEO – Towards an Interenational Environment Organization Baden-Baden: Nomos pp 287-323.
2002 Peter M. Haas and Ernst B. Haas “Pragmatic Constructivism and the Study of International Institutions” Millennium Vol. 31 No.3, pp. 573-602 revised and reprinted and slightly revised in Harry Bauer and Elisabetta Brighi (2009) Pragmatism in International Relations Routledge pp 103-123.
2002 “Constructing Environmental Security from Resource Scarcity” Global Environmental Politics Vol. 2 No 1, pp. 1-19.
2002 “UN Conferences and Constructivist Governance of the Environment” Global Governance Vol. 8 No 1, pp. 73-91.
2002 “Prospects for Effective Marine Governance in the NW Pacific Region” Marine Policy, 24: 4, July, pp. 341-8; and “Letter to the Editor”, Marine Policy, 24: 6 December pp 499-500.
1998 “Compliance with EU Directives: Insights from International Relations and Comparative Politics” Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 5, No. 1 (1998), pp. 38-65.
1995 "Learning to Learn: Improving Global Governance" Global Governance Vol. 1 No. 3 with Ernst B. Haas, pp. 255-284.
1992 "Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination" International Organization Vol. 46 No. 1 Winter, pp. 1-37, reprinted in Kirton, John J. ed (2009) International Organization Aldershot: Ashgate.1992 "Banning Chlorofluorocarbons: Efforts to Protect Stratospheric Ozone" International Organization Vol. 46 No. 1 Winter, pp. 187-224. Reprinted in Mark W. Zacher (ed.) The International Political Economy of Natural Resources Vol. II London: Edward Elgar, 1993; in Oran R. Young (ed.) The International Political Economy and International Institutions Vol. I London: Edward Elgar, 1996, and in Oona A. Hathaway and Harold Hongju Koh 2005 (eds) Foundations of International Law and Politics New York: Foundation Press pp 243-250.
1992 "Conclusion: Epistemic Communities, World Order, and the Creation of a Reflective Research Program" with Emanuel Adler, International Organization Vol. 46 No. 1 Winter, pp. 367-390; reprinted as 6 Revista de Relaciones Internacionales (2009) October No 12.
1989 "Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control" International Organization, Summer, Vol. 43 No. 3, pp. 377-403. Reprinted in F. Kratochwil and E. Mansfield (eds.) International Organization: A Reader New York: Harper Collins, 1994; in Oran R. Young (ed.) The International Political Economy and International Institutions Vol. I London: Edward Elgar, 1996; in George T. Crane and Abla Amawi (eds.) The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader 2nd edition New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.) Comparative Science and Technology Policy London: Edward Elgar, 1997; and in David L. Feldman ed 2012. The Geopolitics of Natural Resources London: Edward Elgar.

Chapters

2019 “Reflections on Contested Knowledge and Those Who Study It” in MJ Peterson ed. Contesting Global Environmental Knowledge, Norms and Governance Palgrave pp 169-182.
2019 “Reflexivity and Political Analysis” in J.P. Singh and Renee Marlin eds. Science, Technology, Art and International Relations: Routledge pp 165-173.
2017 “Introduction: Global Governance Through Goal setting and the SDGs” with Steven Bernstein, Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann in Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann eds. Governing Through Goals MIT Press.
2017 “Sustainable Development Through Issue Linkage” with Casey Stevens in Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann eds. Governing Through Goals MIT Press
2017 Peter M. Haas “Coupling Science to Governance: Straddling the Science-Policy Interface” in Anabelle Littoz-Monnet ed The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations London: Routledge.
2016 Peter M. Haas “Regional Environmental Governance” in Tanja Boerzel and Thomas Risse eds. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2014 Peter M. Haas “Ideas, Experts and Governance” in Monika Ambrus, Ellen Hey, and Helena Raulus eds. The Role of Experts in International Decision-Making Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2013 Peter M. Haas and Ron Mitchell “Advanced scholarship: interdisciplinary research at the science-policy interface” in Paul Harris ed. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics Routledge. Ch 6.
2012 Peter M. Haas and Casey Stevens “Organized Science, Useable Knowledge and Multilateral Environmental Governance” in Rolf Lidskog and Goran Sundquist eds. Governing the Air: Science-Policy Interactions in International Air Policy Cambridge: MIT Press.
2009 Peter M. Haas, John Gerard Ruggie, Philippe Schmitter and Antje Wiener “New Introduction” in Ernst B. Haas Beyond the Nation State European Consortium for Political Research pp 1-16.2008
2007 “Epistemic Communities and International Environmental Law” in Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee and Ellen Hey eds. The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

2019 Review of Michael Zurn A Theory of Global Governance Governance 32:2 (April) pp 396-398.
2017 Review of Jacob Sending The Politics of Expertise Perspectives on Politics 15: 1 pp 308-310.

Areas of Expertise

International relations theory
International environmental cooperation
Role of expertise in world politics
Global governance
International institutions

Activities

Editorial Board, Global Environmental Politics
Associate Faculty, Earth System Governance Project

Ellie Louka

President, Law-In-Action

United States

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Doctorate Degree in Law (J.S.D.), New York School of Law

Elli Louka is the founder of Law-In-Action (www.law-in-action.com), a consulting company based in Princeton, New Jersey and has worked with countries and companies on international law issues. Louka has been a Marie Curie Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow and Senior Fellow at Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.

Areas of Expertise

Human rights
International law (Public, Private)
International humanitarian law
International Environmental Law
Environmental Law, United States
Environmental Law, European Union
International organizations
Nuclear Weapons policy and law
International Economic Law and Policy
International Financial Law and Policy
International Monetary Law and Policy

Selected Publications

Monographs

The Global Economic Order: The International Law and Politics of the Financial and Monetary System, Edward Elgar Pub. 2020
Nuclear Weapons, Justice and the Law, Edward Elgar, 2011
Water Law and Policy: Governance without Frontiers, Oxford University Press, 2008
International Environmental Law: Fairness, Effectiveness and World Order, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
Biodiversity & Human Rights – The International Rules for the Protection of Biodiversity, Transnational Publishers, 2002
Overcoming National Barriers to International Waste Trade: A New Perspective on the Transnational Movement of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste, Springer, 1994

Personal Website

www.law-in-action.com

Moira L. McConnell

Professor of Law Emerita

Dalhousie University, Canada

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PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

Moira L. McConnell is a Professor of Law Emerita, Dalhousie University, Canada and an Honorary Fellow of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute ( MELAW) on the Faculty of Law. She retired from fulltime teaching in 2015 but remains engaged in numerous research projects and supervision of masters and doctoral students in the Faculty of Law and other departments, including the Marine Affairs Programme, as well as working with graduate students at other post graduate institutions. In 2015 she was appointed to the UN World Maritime University (WMU) as External Examiner. A former Director of the MELAW she was a member of the Faculty of Law at Dalhousie University for over 25 years and a member of the Nova Scotia Bar Society since 1990. She has had many important “law in practice” roles in her career including over a decade as a Special Advisor to the ILO in connection with the Maritime Labour Convention,2006. She is also a former Executive Director the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia. Over the last 30 years Professor McConnell has undertaken numerous international, regional and national legal implementation projects related to the law of the sea, maritime law and maritime labour law and remains involved with projects with colleagues in MELAW as well as research and writing for academic publications and studies for UN organizations.

Selected Publications

“ITLOS and the Tale of the Tenacious Genuine link”, Chapter 11, in Øystein Jens, ed., The Development of the Law of the Sea by the International Judiciary (Anticipated publication Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020).
“A brief reflection on deconstruction, “digital disruption” and the employment of seafarers” in eds. Olga Fotinopoulos, Alexandre Charbonneau, François Mandin, (working title) Overage. Patrick Chaumette (Anticipated publication Presses universitaires de Rennes 2019/2020)
Section editor and author of “Introduction to Part 3. “The Law of the Sea and Principled Ocean Governance” in The International Ocean Institute - Canada ed., The Future of Ocean Governance and Capacity Development. Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Mann Borgese ( 1918- 2002) (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, in press 2018) at p.115
“The ILO’s Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (C.185) after more than a decade: Ahead of its time or case of good intentions gone wrong?” chapter 11 in Patrick Chaumette ( coordinator) Seafarers: an international labour market perspective (University of Nantes, Gomylex, 2016) 119-173
“A delicate balance: The seafarers’ employment agreement, the system of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and the role of flag States”, chapter 5 in Patrick Chaumette ( coordinator) Seafarers: an international labour market perspective (University of Nantes, Gomylex, 2016) 285-334.
”Maritime Labour Standards”, 2nd edition, Maritime Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2016 )
“ Forging or Foregoing “the Genuine Link”?: A reflection on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and other strategies”, in The Regulation of International Shipping: International and Comparative Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Edgar Gold. Eds., Aldo Chircop, Norman G. Letalik, Ted L. McDorman, and Susan J. Rolston (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 A Legal Primer to an Emerging International Regime (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011). ( With Dominick Devlin, Cleopatra Doumbia- Henry )
Co-editor and author of several chapters in Contributions to International Environmental Negotiations in the Mediterranean Context, MEPIELAN Studies in International Environmental Law and Negotiation – 2 (Athens, Greece: Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publications, Brussels: Bruylant, S.A., 2004). (Author of chapters: “The Convergence of Security Defence Interests and Regional Environmental Protection and their Impact on Environmental Negotiations” ; The Relationship Between Science and Politics in Environmental Negotiations”) Republished 2014 by Bruylant. (co-editor Evangelos Raftopoulos).
“Course Convergence? Comparative Perspectives on the Governance of Navigation and Shipping in Canadian and Russian Arctic Waters” in Ocean Yearbook, eds., Chircop, Coffen-Smout and McConnell, Vol 28 (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2014, 291-327) ( with Aldo Chircop, Ivan Bunik and Kristoffer Svendsen).
“Observations on the Law Applicable on the Continental Shelf and in the Exclusive Economic Zone: A Comparative View” in Ocean Yearbook, eds A Chircop, S. Coffen-Smout, Moira McConnell, Vol 25 ( Leiden/ Boston:, Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) 221-248.
“Observations on Compliance and Enforcement and Regional Fisheries Institutions: Overcoming the Limitations of the Law of the Sea”, Chapter 4 in D. Russell and D.VanderZwaag, eds., Strengthening Canada’s Regional Fisheries Management Arrangements in Light of Sustainability Principles, (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2010) 71-98.
“ ‘Making labour history’ and the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: Implications for international law making (and responses to the dynamics of globalization)” in The Future of Ocean Regime-Building: Essays in Tribute to Douglas M. Johnston, A. Chircop, T. McDorman, S.Rolston eds (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/ Brill, 2009) 349-384.
“Invasive seaweeds: global and regional law and policy” Botanica Marina 50 (2007): 438–450. ( with M. Doelle and D. VanderZwaag).
“Responsive ocean governance: the problem of invasive species and ships’ ballast water – A Canadian study Understanding and Strengthening EU-Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance” in T.Koivurova, A.Chircop, E.Franckx, E. Molenaar and D.VanderZwaag, eds, Understanding and Strengthening European Union – Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance, 35 Juridica Lapponica (Rovaniemi;U of Lapland, 2009) 433-469.
Constraints Affecting the Implementation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Pacific Island States: A Report to the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency and other Pacific Regional Agencies, August 2003 (copy on file).
Overview Report on the Development of Regulations for the Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Sulphides and Cobalt-Rich Ferromanagese Crusts, Report to International Ocean Institute (IOI- HQ) and the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute, January 2003. ( with B. Blazkiewicz)
“Inter-Agency Collaboration or Inter-Agency Competition - A Challenge for the UN System”. Paper prepared for the International Conference on Marine Environmental Law, Bremen, Germany, April 17-19, 2002 published in International Marine Environmental Law, A. Kirchner, ed., (The Hague, New York, London: Kluwer Law International, 2003) Chapter 7.\
Moira L. McConnell, Globallast Legislative Review – Final Report, Globallast Monograph Series I (London: IMO, 2002). http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/MajorProjects/Documents/Mono1.pdf
"Neighbourly Relations: Jurisdiction and Crime on the High Seas" Proceedings 1996, Canadian Council of International Law Annual Conference. Reprinted as one of 25 selected papers in Selected Papers in International Law: Contributions of the Canadian Council on International Law. Eds. Y. Le Bouthillier, D. McRae, D. Pharand (Kulwer: 1999) 501.
“International Vessel-Source Oil Pollution” Chapter 2 in The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioural Mechanisms., ed. Oran Young (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 1999) 33. (with Ronald Mitchell, Alexi Roginko and Ann Barrett).
"Business as Usual: An Evaluation of the 1986 United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships" (1987) 18 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 435.
"Darkening Confusion Mounted Upon Darkening Confusion: The Search for the Elusive Genuine Link" (1985) 6 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 365.

Areas of Expertise

Law of the sea
Maritime law and policy
International labour law
International Law (public and private)
International environmental law
Corporate law and governance
Administrative and constitutional law
Human rights

Activities

External Examiner, World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden (2015 - )
Co-Editor, Ocean Yearbook, (Martinus Nijhoff (Brill)) (1998- ongoing)
Associate Editor, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, (Oxford University Press) (2006-ongoing)
Editorial Board, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (Springer) ( 2011- ongoing;)
Member, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (on going)
Member (Associate) International Academy of Comparative Law ( elected 2009 – ongoing)
Advisory Board Member, International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section) (on going)
Member, Canadian Maritime Law Association (ongoing) ; member of CMLA Committee on Maritime Labour and Immigration ( 2018 – present)
Member, Women in Shipping and Transport Association ( Canada) (WISTA)

Tullio Scovazzi

Professor of International Law

Department of Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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Professor of International Law

Professor of International Law in the Universities of Parma (1980-1991), Genoa (1991-1994), Milan (1994-1998) and Milano-Bicocca (since 1998). Invited professor at the Universities of Brest (1987), Paris II (1993), Paris I (1995), Nantes (1999, 2004, 2005), Limoges (2000), Nice (2002). Associate of the Institut de Droit International (since 2017). Occasionally attended, as legal expert, negotiations and meetings on law of the sea, law of cultural properties, human rights, international organizations.

Areas of Expertise

Law of the sea
Environmental law
Law of cultural properties
Human rights

Selected Publications

Scovazzi, Gli accordi bilaterali sulla pesca, Milano, 1977;
Leita & Scovazzi (eds.), Il regime della pesca nella Comunità Economica Europea, Milano, 1979;
Scovazzi, La pesca nell'evoluzione del diritto del mare, Milano, Part I 1979, Part II 1984;
Giuliano, Scovazzi & Treves, Diritto internazionale, Milano, vol I, 1983 (2nd ed.), 1991 (3rd ed.); vol. II, 1983;
Scovazzi, La linea di base del mare territoriale, Milano, 1986;
Francioni & Scovazzi (eds.), International Law for Antarctica, Milano, 1987;
Ferrari & Scovazzi (eds.), La tutela della libertà di religione, Padova, 1988;
Francioni & Scovazzi (eds.), International Responsibility for Environmental Harm, London, 1991;
Scovazzi & Treves (eds.), World Treaties for the Protection of the Environment, Milano, 1992;
Scovazzi, Esercitazioni di diritto internazionale, Milano, 1994;
Francalanci & Scovazzi (eds.), Lines in the Sea, Dordrecht, 1994;
Scovazzi, Elementos de derecho internacional del mar (edición española a cargo de Bou Franch), Madrid, 1995;
Maffei, Pineschi, Scovazzi & Treves (eds.), Participation in World Treaties on the Protection of the Environment A Collection of Data, London, 1996;
Francioni & Scovazzi (eds.), International Law for Antarctica, 2nd ed., The Hague, 1996;
Scovazzi, Assab, Massaua, Uccialli, Adua Gli strumenti giuridici del primo colonialismo italiano, Torino, 2nd ed. 1998;
Conetti, Migliorino & Scovazzi, Testi di base per lo studio del diritto internazionale, Milano, 1998; II ed. 2001; III ed., 2006;
Scovazzi, Marine Specially Protected Areas The General Aspects and the Mediterranean Regional System, The Hague, 1999;
Scovazzi, Corso di diritto internazionale Parte I: Caratteri generali ed evoluzione della comunità internazionale, Milano, 2000;
Scovazzi, The Evolution of International Law of the Sea: New Issues, New Challenges, Hague Academy of International Law, Recueil des Cours, vol. 286, 2000;
Scovazzi (ed.), The Protection of the Environment in a Context of Regional Economic Integration The Case of the European Community, the MERCOSUR and the NAFTA, Milano, 2001;
Camarda & Scovazzi (eds.), The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Legal Aspects, Milano, 2002;
Scovazzi, Elementi di diritto internazionale del mare, 3rd ed., Milano, 2002;
Garabello & Scovazzi (eds.), The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Before and after the 2001 UNESCO Convention, Leiden, 2003;
Scovazzi (ed.), La protezione del patrimonio culturale sottomarino nel Mare Mediterraneo, Milano, 2004;
Calvetti & Scovazzi (eds.), Dal Tribunale per la ex-Iugoslavia alla Corte Penale Internazionale, Milano, 2004;
Maritime Delimitations in the Mediterranean Sea, Cursos Euromediterraneos Bancaja de Derecho Internacional, 2004-2005;
Juste Ruiz & Scovazzi (eds.), La práctica internacional en materia de responsabilidad por accidentes industriales catastróficos, Valencia, 2005;
Scovazzi (ed.), Corso di diritto internazionale, Parte II: Trattati, norme generali, adattamento, Milano, 2006;
Papanicolopulu & Scovazzi (ed.), Quale diritto nei conflitti armati?, Milano, 2006;
Francioni & Scovazzi (eds.), Biotechnology and International Law, Oxford, 2006;
Acquaviva & Scovazzi (eds.), Il dominio di Venezia sul Mare Adriatico nelle opere di Paolo Sarpi e Giulio Pace, Milano, 2007;
Citroni & Scovazzi, The Struggle against Enforced Disappearance and the 2007 United Nations Convention, Leiden, 2007;
Papanicolopulu & Scovazzi (eds.), Conflitti armati e situazioni di emergenza: la risposta del diritto internazionale, Milano, 2007;
Calvetti & Scovazzi (eds.), Il Tribunale per la ex-Iugoslavia: l’attività svolta e il suo prossimo scioglimento, Milano, 2007;
Nafziger & Scovazzi (eds.), Le patrimoine culturel de l’humanité – The Cultural Heritage of Mankind, Leiden, 2008;
Francioni, Gestri, Ronzitti & Scovazzi (eds.), Accesso alla giustizia dell’individuo nel diritto internazionale e dell’Unione Europea, Milano, 2008;
Scovazzi, Papanicolopulu & Urbinati (eds.), I diritti umani di fronte al giudice internazionale, Milano, 2009;
Camarda, Corrieri & Scovazzi, La formazione del diritto marittimo nella prospettiva storica, Milano, 2010;
Cutillo, Faugno & Scovazzi (eds.), La responsabilità sociale d’impresa in tema di diritti umani e protezione dell’ambiente – Il caso dell’India, Milano, 2012;
Scovazzi, Ubertazzi & Zagato (eds.), Il patrimonio culturale intangibile nelle sue diverse dimensioni, Milano, 2012;
Annati & Scovazzi (eds.), Diritto internazionale e bombardamenti aerei, Milano, 2012;
Citroni & Scovazzi, Corso di diritto internazionale – Parte III: La tutela internazionale dei diritti umani, Milano, 2013;
Boschiero, Scovazzi, Pitea & Ragni (eds.), International Courts and the Development of International Law – Essays in Honour of Tullio Treves, The Hague, 2013;
Scovazzi (ed.), Corso di diritto internazionale Parte I, Caratteri fondamentali ed evoluzione storica del diritto internazionale, 2nd ed., Milano, 2014;
Scovazzi (ed.), La restituzione dei beni culturali rimossi con particolare riguardo alla pratica italiana, Milano, 2014;
Cutillo, Novak & Scovazzi (eds.), La responsabilità sociale d’impresa in tema di diritti umani e protezione dell’ambiente – Il caso del Perù, Milano, 2014;
Scovazzi (ed.), Corso di diritto internazionale, Parte II: Trattati, norme generali, adattamento, 2nd ed., Milano, 2015;
Westra, Juss & Scovazzi (eds.), Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum, Farnham, 2015;
Antonucci, Papanicolopulu & Scovazzi (eds.), L’immigrazione irregolare via mare nella giurisprudenza italiana e nell’esperienza europea, Torino, 2016;
Scovazzi (ed.), Corso di diritto internazionale Parte I, Caratteri fondamentali, evoluzione storica e soggetti del diritto internazionale, 3rd ed., Milano, 2018;
Bay & Scovazzi, Eichmann, Milano, 2019;
Carpanelli & Scovazzi (eds.), Political and Legal Aspects of Italian Colonialism in Somalia, Torino, 2020.

Steinar Andresen

Research Professor

Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

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[email protected]

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Academic background

Full professor competence (Forsker 1), 2001.
Cand. polit., University of Oslo, 1979 (political science, international relations)

Professional experience

Senior Research Fellow at FNI (since 1987).
Research Fellow at FNI (from 1979).
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle (1987-88).
FNI Research Director (1992-97).
Senior Research Fellow (part time), International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria (1994-96).
Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University, USA (1997-98).
Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Oslo (2002-2005).
Visting Scholar, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, (fall 2012).
Professor II, Pluricourts Center of Excellence, University of Oslo (2013-2015).

Research Interests

Main focus on international agreements, regimes and international organizations, especially in the area of environment, but also international resource policy and international health issues. Some empirical examples are the climate regime, the whaling regime and various UN bodies. Focus on the effectiveness of the agreements and organizations and the significance of 'institutional design', leadership and the relation between science and policy.

Selected Publications

Books

The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change: Key Actors in International Climate Cooperation

Guri Bang, Arild Underdal and Steinar Andresen (eds.), Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2015, 216 p.

Improving Global Environmental Governance: Best Practices for Architecture and Agency

Norichika Kanie, Steinar Andresen and Peter M. Haas (eds.),London/New York, Routledge, 2014, 265 p.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

Knowledge-based management of protected areas and hydropower: The case of Norway

Kristin Rosendal, Jon Birger Skjærseth and Steinar Andresen International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, published online 28.06.2019, 19 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10784-019-09447-6

The Paris Agreement and its Rulebook in a Problem-Solving Perspective

Steinar Andresen Climate Law, Vol 9, 2019, pp. 122-136

Science and policy in the International Whaling Commission

Steinar Andresen In M.J.Peterson (ed), Contesting global environmental knowledge, norms and governance. London/New York, Routledge, 2019, pp. 110-125.

What can be learned from experience with scientific advisory bodies in the field of international environmental politics?

Steinar Andresen, Prativa Baral, Steven J. Hoffman and Patrick Fafard Global Challenges, Vol 2, No 9, 7 p. DOI: 10.1002/gch2.201800055

Regulating the invisible: interaction between the EU and Norway in managing nano-risks

Steinar Andresen, G.Kristin Rosendal, Jon Birger Skjærseth International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, online 21.05.2018, 16 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10784-018-9401-5

Other Publications

Making an effective climate agreement: Mission impossible

Energi og Klima, 6.12.2018.

Japan: A Climate Laggard

Masahiko Iguchi and Steinar Andresen Climate Policy Outlook 2017, CICEP, 2017.

International Efforts to Curb Emissions: Will Paris Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

Policy Innovations, 02.12.2015.

Complexity of institutions: Implications for access and benefit sharing

Kristin Rosendal and Steinar Andresen Trade Insights, Vol 11, No 2, 2015, pp. 29-32.

International Whaling Commission

In J.F. Morin and A. Orsini (eds), Essential concepts of Global Environmental Governance. London, Routledge, 2014, pp. 104-106.

The Australian ABS Framework: A Model Case for Bioprospecting?

Christian Prip, G. Kristin Rosendal, Steinar Andresen and Morten Walløe Tvedt FNI Report 1/2014. Lysaker, FNI, 2014, 42 p.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF): Right Mechanism for Improved Implementation?

Steinar Andresen and G. Kristin Rosendal FNI Report 4/2012. Lysaker, FNI, 2012, 22 p.

UNEP's Role in Enhancing Problem-Solving Capacity in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Co-ordination and Assistance in the Biodiversity Conservation Cluster

Kristin Rosendal and Steinar Andresen FNI Report 10/2003. Lysaker, FNI, 2004, 29 p.

The Role of Green NGOs in Promoting Climate Compliance

Steinar Andresen and Lars H. Gulbrandsen FNI Report 4/2003. Lysaker, FNI, 2003, 22 p.

Leadership Change in the World Health Organization: Potential for Increased Effectiveness?

Steinar Andresen FNI Report 8/2002. Lysaker, FNI, 2002.

Case studies of the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Balancing Textbook Ideals and Feasibility Concerns

Steinar Andresen and Jørgen Wettestad FNI Report 19/2001. Lysaker, FNI, 2001, 21 p.

Projects

Strategic Challenges in International Climate and Energy Policy (CICEP)

Ongoing

Managing mercury through multilevel governance: Norway and China (MERCHINOR)

Ongoing

Meinhard Doelle (1964-2022)

Professor, Canadian Chair, Marine Environmental Protection

World Maritime University

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Canadian Chair, Marine Environmental Protection, World Maritime University

Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (on leave)

JSD, Dalhousie University, Halifax

LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto

LLB, Dalhousie University, Halifax

BSc Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Prior to joining WMU in July 2019, Meinhard served as Professor of Law, and Associate Dean, Research at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, and as an Associate Director and Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (MELAW). He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

Meinhard served as policy advisor to the federal government during the development of the original Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, as a member of the Regulatory Advisory Committee, and as drafter of the NS Environment Act. He was a non-governmental member of the Canadian delegation to the UN climate negotiations from 2000-2006. He co-chaired the Tidal Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment in 2007, served on the Lower Churchill Joint Federal-Provincial Review Panel from 2009 – 2011, and co-chaired the Nova Scotia panel on aquaculture from 2013 - 2014. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the new federal Impact Assessment Act in Canada.

Meinhard has written on a variety of environmental law topics, including climate change, energy, invasive species, environmental assessments, and public participation in environmental decision-making. His books include “Environmental Law: Cases and Materials” (2019), “The Paris Climate Agreement: Analysis and Commentary” (2017), “Compliance in an Evolving Climate Change Regim”e (2011), and “The Federal Environmental Assessment Process, a Guide and Critique" (2009).

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Law
Climate Change
Environmental Impact Assessment
International Environmental Law
Environmental Governance
Renewable Energy Governance
Regulatory Approaches
Compliance

Selected Publications

Books

(with Sara Seck) Research Handbook on International, National, and Transnational Responses to Loss & Damage (Edgar Elgar, 2019) (in progress).
(with A. John Sinclair) The New Canadian Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (Irwin Law, 2019) (in progress).
(with Chris Tollefson) Environmental Law: Cases and Materials (3^rd ed) (Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2019).
(co-editor), The Paris Climate Agreement: Analysis and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
(co-editor), Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Change Regime, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), (co-author of the introduction and the concluding chapter).
(With Chris Tollefson) Environmental Law: Cases and Materials (Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2009).
The Federal Environmental Assessment Process: A Guide and Critique (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2008).
From Hot Air to Action? Climate Change, Compliance and the Future of International Environmental Law (Toronto: Carswell, 2005).
Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Commentary, 2005/2006 (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005).

Recent Peer Reviewed Articles

(co-author) Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2019) 37 IAPA. (DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2019.1677089).
(with Sara Seck), “Loss & Damage from Climate Change: From Concept to Remedy?” (2019) Climate Policy 1752. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2019.1630353.
(with John Sinclair), “The New Federal Impact Assessment Act in Canada: Delivering on Reform Expectations?” (2019) 79 EIAR, 1-9.
(with David Wright), “Social Cost of Carbon in Environmental Impact Assessment” (2019) 52:3 UBC Law Review 1007.
(with Aldo Chircop), “Decarbonizing International Shipping: Potential Roles of the IMO’s Initial Strategy and the UN Climate Regime” (2019) RECIEL 1-10.
(co-author) Effectiveness Of Strategic Environmental Assessment In Canada Under Directive-Based And Informal Practice (2019) 37 IAPA 344.
“The Heart of the Paris Rulebook: Communicating NDCs and Accounting for Their Implementation” (2019) 9 Climate Law 3.
(with Bob Gibson and Karine Peloffy), “Challenges and opportunities of a forthcoming strategic assessment of the implications of international climate change mitigation commitments for individual undertakings in Canada” (2018) 10 Sustainability 3747.
“Compliance in Transition: Facilitative Compliance Finding its Place in the Paris Climate Regime” (2018) 12 CCLR 229.
(with John Sinclair and Bob Gibson), “Implementing Next Generation Assessment: A Case Example of a Global Challenge” (2018) 72 EIAR, 166.
“Toward a Principled Design of Provincial Cap & Trade Systems: Lessons from Nova Scotia's Proposal to Meet the Carbon Pricing Requirement in the Pan-Canadian Framework for Climate Change”, (2018) J. Env. L. & Prac. 293.
(co-author) “From Smokes to Smokestacks: Lessons from Tobacco for the Future of Climate Change Liability” (2017) 30 Geo Int'l Envtl L Rev. 1.
(co-author) “Looking Up, Down, and Sideways: Reconceiving Cumulative Effects Assessment as a Mindset” (2017) 62 EIAR 183.
(co-author), “Polyjural and Polycentric Sustainability Assessment: A Once-in-a-Generation Law Reform Opportunity” (2016) 30 J. Env. L. & Prac. 35.
“The Paris Agreement, Historic Breakthrough or High Stakes Experiment?” (2016) 6 Climate Law 1.
(co-author) “Fulfilling the Promise: Basic Components of Next Generation Environmental Assessment” (2016) 29 J. Env. L. & Prac. 257.
“Offshore Renewable Energy Governance in Nova Scotia: A Case Study of Tidal Energy in the Bay of Fundy” (2015) 29 Ocean Yearbook 271.
“The Sydney Tar Ponds Case: Shutting the Door on Environmental Class Action Suits in Nova Scotia?” (2015) 27 J. Env. L. & Prac. 279.
(with Rebecca Critchley) "The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessments in Improving the Governance of Emerging New Industries: A Case Study of Wind Developments in Nova Scotia" (2015) 11:1 JSDLP 87 - 114.

Activities

Member of Technical Advisory Committee on the new federal Impact Assessment Act, 2019 -
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Climate Law, 2013 –
Member of the Editorial Board, Lakehead Law Journal, 2014 -
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Canadian Environmental Regulation and Compliance News, 1996 –
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Ocean Yearbook, 2006 -
Member, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, 2008 -
Legal Advisor, Legal Response Initiative (offering legal advice to developing countries at the UN climate negotiations) 2012 –
Member, National Steering Committee, Willms & Shier Environmental Law Moot, 2010 -

Sofia Galani

Assistant Professor in Public International Law

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

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[email protected]

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PhD, University of Bristol, UK

Dr Sofia Galani is an Assistant Professor at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and a Scientific Advisor to the Hellenic Parliament. She holds a PhD in Public International Law and an LLM from the University of Bristol and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer (2021), a Lecturer (2015-2020), and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Bristol (2012-2015). She has taught international law at the Panteion University, the University of Bristol Law School, the Greek School of National Defence, the University of Piraeus, and the Open Hellenic University and has given guest lectures and seminars at the Universities of Nottingham, Leipzig, Freiburg, and Waseda University. She has given professional training courses at the NATO Maritime Security Centre of Excellence, Istanbul, and the Atlantic Centre of the Portuguese Ministry of Defence. Sofia is one of the principal contributors to the UNODC Maritime Crime: A Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners and a consultant to the UNODC Maritime Crime Programme. She sits at the Non-Executive Board of Advisors of the UK-based charity Human Rights at Sea and is one of the principal authors of the Geneva Declaration of Human Rights at Sea.

Areas of Expertise

International Law of the Sea
Maritime Security
Human Rights
Terrorism Studies

Selected Publications

‘Maritime Security in the Polar Regions’ in Y Tanaka, R Johnstone & V Ulfbeck (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Polar Law, Routledge, 2023, pp. 141-156.
(co-authored with Lisa Mardikian), ‘Protecting the Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods in the Face of Climate Change: The Potential of Regional Human Rights Law and the Law of the Sea’ (2023) 23 (3) Human Rights Law Review1-24 https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad020.
(in Greek) «Κλιματική Αλλαγή, Μεταβαλλόμενα Σύνορα και Προκλήσεις στη Θαλάσσια Ασφάλεια του Αρκτικού Ωκεανού» σε Στ. Περράκης (επιμ.) Σύνορα και Διεθνής Δικαιοταξία (Εκ. Ι. Σιδέρη, 2023).
(in Greek) «Η Σύμβαση των ΗΕ για το Δίκαιο της Θάλασσας και η Θαλάσσια Ασφάλεια: Βασικές Αρχές και Σύγχρονες Προκλήσεις» (2023) Τετράδια Διεθνούς Δικαίου και Διεθνούς Πολιτικής, Τεύχος 6-7 (Εκ. Ι. Σιδέρης), σελ. 126-147.
‘Tensions and Cooperation in Realizing Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Sea: The Examples of Maritime Terrorism and Irregular Migration’ (2022) Italian Yearbook of International Law 91-115 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22116133-03101006.
Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Victim-Centred Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
‘Port Closures and Persons at Sea in International Law’ (2021) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 605-633 doi:10.1017/S0020589321000233.
(co-edited with MD Evans) (eds.) Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? Edward Elgar (2020).
‘Assessing Maritime Security and Human Rights: The Role of the EU and its MS in the Protection of Human Rights in the Maritime Domain’ (2020) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 325-347 https://ooir.org/j.php?j=1571-8085.
(co-authored with M Evans), ‘The Interplay between Maritime Security and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance?’ in MD Evans and S Galani (eds) Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? Edward Elgar, 2020 pp. 1-24.

Activities

Member of the Advisory Board of the Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, Rhodes, Greece (since 2022)
Honorary Research Fellow of the Human Rights Implementation Centre of the University of Bristol Law School (since 2021)
Member of the Non-Executive Board of the UK-based charity, Human Rights at Sea
Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (since 2017)
Member of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations (HESILIR) (since 2018)
Member of International Law Association, Hellenic Branch (since 2021)
Editor of the Case and Comment Section of the European Human Rights Law Review (2015-2023)

Vassiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou

Assistant Professor, EU Environmental Law and EU Administrative Law

Department of International, European & Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece

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PhD in EU Environmental Law from the University of Cologne

Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou studied Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and obtained a Master’ s degree in Public Law and a PhD in EU Εnvironmental Law from the University of Cologne (Germany). She worked as a Legal Advisor to the Greek Deputy Minister for Environment, as a Consultant to the UNEP-MAP and as a Senior Investigator in the Greek Ombudsman.

Since 2010 she teaches EU Environmental Law and International Environmental Law and Policy at the Panteion University in Athens (Assistant Professor). She is author of three monographs, while she has published extensively on issues relating to EU and National Environmental Law in english and in greek. She also practices law on issues relating to environmental and urban planning law and provides legal services to municipalities and public entities in this field.

Selected Publications

Monographs

Das Umweltordnungsrecht-Leistungsfähigkeit, Leistungsgrenzen und Entwicklungsperspektiven (Dissertation), Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2002
The administrative procedure under the impact of the European Integration Process, Sakkoulas Publications 2005
The Transparency Principle as an emerging principle of the European Union Law, Sakkoulas Publications 2013

Selective Chapters and Articles

Economic instruments for the re-orientation of economic processes towards more sustainable paths-The legal perspective in: A. Papandreou/ V. Karageorgou, Economic Instruments for Sustainable Development, SakkoulasPublications, Athens 2004, p. 47-97 (in Greek).
The principle of sustainable development as a guiding principle for modern environmental law–Basic normative directions and relevance for the use of certain instruments ”, Environment and Law, vol.3, 2004, p. 324-333 (in Greek).
“Global Environmental Governance: Current Situation, future perspectives and the way towards its empowerment” in : St. Perrakis (Eds), Global Governance in the 21 st century, Athens 2006, p. 52-62(in Greek).
Hellenic Constitution and Environmental Protection in : P. Pavlopoulos/Sp. Flogaitis/A. Pantelis (Eds), The Constitution and its Reform, Esperia Publications LTD, London 2008, p. 381-389 (in English)
The Greek experience with the use of economic instruments in climate policy in : M. Rodi/M. Mehling (eds), Bridging the Divide in Global Climate Policy : Strategies for enhanced Participation and Integration, Lexxion Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 177-202(in English).
Integrated and Adaptive Water Management as Part of the Climate Change Adaptation Strategies-The Legal Approach in : R. Engel/Kl. Bösselmann/L. Westra, Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law, Cambridge Publishing Scholars, 2010, p. 346-372.
Interbasin Water Transfers and Sustainable Water Use-A Relationship of Contradiction or of Compitability? in : R. Engel/L. Westra/Kl. Bösselmann (eds), Globalization and Ecological Integrity in Science and International Law, Cambridge Publishing Scholars 2011, σελ. 276-298.
Ηow the notion of environmental justice can transform environmental law, in the online law journal «Nomos and Physis» (www.nomosphysis.org.gr.), February 2012.
Granting development consent by specific legislative act-A choice to circumvent public participation and judicial control?-The European Perspective in :L. Westra/P. Taylor/A.Michelot (Eds), Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse : Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights, Earthscan 2013, (Chapter 7), σελ. 92-103.
The access to justice for environmental matters in the light of the recent jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Aarhus Convention, Law and the Environment (greek journal for environmental law), 2/2013, p. 201-224.11.
The Fast-Track Authorization of Large-Scale RES Projects: An Acceptable Option? in :L.Squantini et al (Eds), Sustainable Energy in Diversity- Challenges and Approaches in Energy Transition in the European Union, European Environmental Law Series No 1, 2014, p.65-84.
Τhe Permissibility of Projects for Interbasin Water Transfer under the Prism of the EU Water and Environmental Legislation in:L. Squantini/B. Vanheudsen/M. Reese (Eds), EU Environmental and Planning Law Aspects of Large-Scale Projects, Intersentia, 2016, p. 199-227.
The EU Regulatory Framework to Deal with the Environmental Effects of the Mining Activities-Assessing the Effectiveness, European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 5/2016, p. 138-151.
The Scope of the Review in Environmental-related Disputes in the light of the Aarhus Convention and the EU Law-Tensions between Effective Judicial Protection and National Procedural Autonomy in: J. Jendroska /M.Bar (eds), Procedural Environmental Rights: Principle X in Theory and Practice, Intersentia 2018, σελ. 229-260.
Access to Justice in Environmental Matters: The current situation in the light of the Recent Developments at the International and Regional Level and the Implications at the National Level with emphasis on the UNECE Region and the EU, ΕΕΕLR 2018, p. 251-264.
The Right of Access to Justice in Environmental Matters: Recent Developments at International and Regional Level and the Repercussions at National Level in : J. May/E. Daly (eds),Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Volume on Human Rights and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, p. σελ. 155-168.
Τhe Regulation of Water Services in the EU: A difficult attempt to balance between environmental, economic and social interests (with Kl. Pouikli), ΕΕΕLR 2019 (Vol. 28, Issue 6) , upcoming

Areas of Expertise

EU Environmental Law in interrelation with the international environmental law
Water Law (transboundary agreements, International, European and National Water Law)
Procedural Environmental Rights with specific emphasis on access to justice in Environmental matters
Economic instruments for environmental protection (eco-taxes, emissions trading)

Ilias Mavroeidis

Programme Management Officer - Governance

United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan

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Ph.D, University of Manchester/UMIST

Ilias Mavroeidis is Programme Management Officer, on Governance, in the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) - Barcelona Convention Secretariat. Before joining UNEP/MAP in 2016, he has served as a scientific expert in the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Greece (August 2001-August 2015) and as Environment Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union (September 2015-June 2016).
Ilias has been involved in international negotiations related to the environment and sustainable development in the context of international and regional organizations and initiatives, such as UNEP, the European Union, the former UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Adriatic-Ionian Initiative/EUSAIR and the European Council. While serving at the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Greece, he has been a Member of the Bureau of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention for the periods 2009-2011 & 2013-2015 and a Vice-President of the Steering Committee of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) for the period 2009-2011.
Prior, he worked as an Affiliated Researcher at the Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute of CERTH (1999-2001), where he was engaged in research on air pollutant emissions and renewable energy sources. He has also been involved in lecturing and has published more than 80 refereed papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, mainly in the field of environmental management and technology.
Ilias Mavroeidis has a first degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He holds an MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control and a PhD in Chemical Engineering (Air Pollution) from the University of Manchester/UMIST, United Kingdom. He also holds an MSc in Adult Education from the Hellenic Open University.

Areas of Expertise

International environmental governance
Sustainable Development Goals
Regional environmental policy
Environmental management and technology
Atmospheric pollution

Selected Publications

Papailias, G., Mavroidis, I. (2018), “Atmospheric Emissions from Oil and Gas Extraction and Production in Greece”, Atmosphere, Vol. 9, 152-168
Machado M., Santos J.M., Reisen V.A., Reis N.C.Jr., Mavroidis I., Lima A.T. (2018), “A new methodology to derive settleable particulate matter guidelines to assist policy-makers on reducing public nuisance”, Atmospheric Environment. Vol. 182, 242-251
Mavroidis I. and Ilia M. (2012), “Trends of NOx, NO2 and O3 concentrations at three different types of air quality monitoring stations in Athens, Greece”, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 63,135-147
Mavroidis I. and Chaloulakou A. (2011), “Long-term trends of primary and secondary NO2 production in the Athens area. Variation of the NO2 / NOx ratio”, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 45, 6872-6879
Mavroidis I. and Gavriil I. (2008), “Compliance with the annual NO2 air quality standard in Athens. Required NOx levels and expected health implications”, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 42, No.3, 454-465
Agrafiotis C.C., Mavroidis I., Konstandopoulos A.G., Hoffschmidt B., Stobbe P., Romero M., Fernandez-Quero V. (2007), “Development of Ceramic Volumetric Receiver Technology, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells”, Vol. 91, 474-488
Papaioannou M. and Mavroidis I. (2005), “Sustainable Development: International and European Developments and Perspectives”, Technika, Vol. 212, 12-22 (in Greek)
Mavroidis I., Griffiths R.F. and Hall D.J. (2003), “Field and wind tunnel investigations of plume dispersion around single surface obstacles”, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 37, No. 21, 2903-2918
Chaloulakou A. and Mavroidis I. (2002), “Comparison of indoor and outdoor concentrations of CO at a public school. Evaluation of an Indoor Air Quality Model”, Atmospheric Environment, Vol.36, No.11, 1769-1781

Irini Papanicolopulu

Associate Professor of International Law

University of Milano-Bicocca

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PhD, University of Milano, Italy

Irini Papanicolopulu is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, with habilitation to Full Professor. She has a PhD in international law from the University of Milano, and has previously worked at the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow. She is a Visiting Professor at Catolica University (Lisbon, Portugal) and St. Gallen University (Switzerland) and has been a visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Hamburg). She has ample teaching and research experience in International Law, the Law of the Sea, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and Refugee Law. Irini is the author of two monographs, including Irini Papanicolopulu, International Law and the Protection of People at Sea (OUP 2018). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters published in leading journals on a wide range of issues relating to, among others, international law, the law of the sea and oceans governance, human rights and refugee and migrant protection, marine environment protection and the due diligence duties of states. Irini has also edited several collective volumes, including the award-winning Gender and the Law of the Sea (Brill 2019). Irini has been the founder and first coordinator of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the Italian Society of International Law and currently serves in the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the European Society of International Law. She has been a member of the Italian delegation in negotiations concerning various aspects of international law and occasionally advises states, international organisations, civil society organisations and business actors on issues of International Law, the Law of the Sea, Human Rights Law and Environmental Law.

Areas of Expertise

Law of the sea
Maritime law and policy
Human rights law
International Law
International environmental law
Refugee law
Human rights at sea

Selected Publications

“International Law and the Protection of People at Sea”, Oxford University Press, 2018
“Il confine marino: unità o pluralità?”, Giuffrè Editore, Milano, 2005
Papanicolopulu (ed), “Gender and the Law of the Sea”, Brill, 2019 – Winner of the ASIL WILIG Scholarship Prize
“The Historical Origins of the Duty to Save Life at Sea in International Law”, in Journal of the History of International Law, 2022, vol. 24(2), pp. 149–188
“Informal law-making in maritime migration” in Natalie Klein (ed), Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea (OUP 2022), pp. 62-75
“On the Nature of the Law of the Sea” in Maurizio Arcari, Irini Papanicolopulu and Laura Pineschi (eds), Trends and Challenges in International Law (Springer, 2022), pp. 275-293
“Egypt-Greece [Report Number 8-25]”, in International Maritime Boundaries (Brill, 2021)
“Greece-Italy [Report Number 8-4(2)]”, in International Maritime Boundaries (Brill, 2021)
“Maritime Spatial Planning and Protection of the Marine Environment”, in Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2021, vol. 9(2), pp. 311–336
Papanicolopulu and T. Burri, “Human Rights and the Chagos Advisory Opinion”, in Thomas Burri and Jamie Trinidad (eds), The International Court of Justice and Decolonization: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion, Cambridge, CUP, 2020, 187-206
Papanicolopulu and A. Rocha, “Oceans, Climate Change and Non-State Actors”, in Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee and Richard Barnes (eds.), Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham/Northampton, 2020, 193-208
“Due Diligence in the Law of the Sea”, in Heike Krieger, Anne Peters, Leonhard Kreuzer (eds.), Due Diligence in the International Legal Order, Oxford, OUP, 2020, 147-162
“Protection from Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment at Sea”, in Boisson de Chazournes, Doussis, Andreone, Zervaki (eds.), Enjeux et perspectives - Droit internationale: droit de la mer, droits de l’homme – Liber Amicorum Haritini Dipla, Editions A. Pedone, 2020, pp. 397-411
Papanicolopulu and G. Baj, “Controllo delle frontiere statali e respingimenti nel diritto internazionale e nel diritto del mare”, in Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, 2020, https://www.dirittoimmigrazionecittadinanza.it/saggi/532-controllo-delle-frontiere-statali-e-respingimenti-nel-diritto-internazionale-e-nel-diritto-del-mare
“Giudici e codificazione del – e nel – diritto del mare”, in Annoni, Forlati, Salerno (a cura di), La codificazione nell’ordinamento internazionale e dell’Unione Europea, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, pp. 527-551
“The land dominates the sea (dominates the land dominates the sea)” in QIL – Questions in International Law, 2018, http://www.qil-qdi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/03_Whats-an-island_PAPANICOLOPULU_FIN.pdf
“The duty to rescue at sea, in peacetime and in war: A general overview”, in International Review of the Red Cross, 2017, vol. 98 (2), pp. 491–514.
“Considerations of Humanity in the Enrica Lexie Case”, in QIL - Questions of International Law, 30 November 2015
“Seafarers as an Agent of Change of the Jurisdictional Balance”, in Ringbom (ed.), Jurisdiction over Ships. Post-UNCLOS Developments in the Law of the Sea, Brill-Nijhoff, 2015, pp. 301-323
“Mediterranean Sea”, in Rothwell, Oude Elferink, Scott, Stephens (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea, OUP, 2015, pp. 604-625
“Jurisdiction of States over Persons at Sea: Principles, Issues, Consequences”, in Basedow, Magnus, Wolfrum (eds.), The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013, Springer, 2015, pp. 147-160
"Human Rights and the Law of the Sea", in Attard, Fitzmaurice, Martinez (eds), IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law. The Law of the Sea (Vol. 1), Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 509-532
“International law and the protection of fishers”, in Del Vecchio (ed.), International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues, Eleven Publishing, The Hague, 2013, pp. 317-328.
“International Judges and the Protection of Human Rights at Sea”, in Boschiero & Scovazzi (eds.), International Courts and the Development of International Law, Asser Press, 2013, 535-544.
“The Law of the Sea Convention: No Place for Persons?”, in International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, vol. 27, 2012, 867–874
“Acoustic Pollution of the Oceans”, in Andreone, Caligiuri & Cataldi (eds.), Law of Sea and Environmental Emergencies, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2012, pp. 159-190.
“Mediterranean Sea”, in Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. VII, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 61-70.
“State Responsibility in Disputed Areas on Land and at Sea”, in Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 71, 2011, p. 587-640 (with E. Milano).
“The European Union and the Regulation of Underwater Noise Pollution”, in Vidas & Schei (eds.), The World Ocean in Globalization: Climate Change, Sustainable Fisheries, Biodiversity, Shipping, Regional Issues, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2011, pp. 457-471.
“La nozione di giurisdizione ai sensi dell’art. 1 della Convenzione Europea dei Diritti Umani nella recente giurisprudenza della Corte Europea dei Diritti Umani” in T. Scovazzi, I. Papanicolopulu & S. Urbinati (eds.), I diritti umani di fronte al giudice internazionale. Atti della giornata di studio in memoria di Carlo Russo, Giuffrè Editore, Milano, 2009, pp. 83-130.
“Procedures and Mechanisms on Compliance under the 1976/1995 Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Protocols”, in Treves et al. (eds.), “Non-Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms and the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements”, Asser Press, The Hague, 2009, pp. 155-168.
“A Note on Maritime Delimitation in a Multizonal Context: The Case of the Mediterranean”, in “Ocean Development & International Law”, 2007, vol. 38, issue 4, p. 381-398.
“Some Thoughts on the Extension of Existing Boundaries for the Delimitation of New Maritime Zones”, in Lagoni and Vignes (eds.), “Maritime Delimitation”, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 2006, p. 219-236.

Activities

Legal Advisor, UNEP/MAP (2022)
Trustee, Human Rights at Sea (2022-2023)
External Examiner, University of Malta (since 2019)
Member of the Coordinating Committee, European Society of International Law Interest Group on the Law of the Sea (since 2017)
Mentor, Mentoring programme of the American Society of International Law Women in International Law Interest Group (2021-2022)
Member, Italian Ministry of Defence roster of experts for scientific and technological research (since 2020)
Associate Editor, Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (since 2016)
Member, Editorial Board, Questions of International Law (since 2013)

Konstantinos Tsimonis

Lecturer in Chinese Society

King’s College London, UK

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PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis is a Lecturer in Chinese Society at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. He has a PhD from SOAS where he also taught courses on Chinese, East Asian and comparative politics. His work concentrates on the ways institutional actors in China’s authoritarian polity adapt in order to perform new roles in the context of marketization and globalization, and their impact on policy-making and state-society relations. Under this broad theme, he has explored: 1) the efforts by state feminist and youth organisations in China to promote policies on women and youth, 2) the evolution of China’s anticorruption institutions and policies under Xi Jinping, 3) the internationalization of Chinese SOEs and their global footprint on industrial relations and environmental standards. He is currently working on a British Academy funded research project on China’s “Balkan Corridor”. Konstantinos has also collaborated with civil society organisations, media and the private sector on various consultancy projects.

Selected Publications

The Communist Youth League and China’s Youth, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, Forthcoming
(with Igor Rogelja) Narrating the China Threat: Securitizing Chinese economic presence in Europe, Chinese Journal of International Politics (OUP), Forthcoming
“Keep the Party Assured and the Youth [not] Satisfied”. The Communist Youth League & Chinese University Students.”, Modern China (Sage), Vol: 44, No. 2
(De)mobilizing and (mis)representing ‘youth’ in the Chinese workplace: political dependency, generational subordination & corporatization in the Communist Youth League, Journal of Youth Studies, Vol: 20, No: 10
Sharpening ‘Swords’ and Strengthening ‘Cages’: Anticorruption under Xi, In Kerry Brown (ed) The Chinese Communist Party19^th Party Congress: Outcomes & Objectives Singapore: World Scientific, 2018
The Future of the Chinese Communist Party, in Willy Wo-Lap Lam (editor) Routledge Handbook of the Communist Party of China, London: Routledge, 2018
‘Purpose’ and the Adaptation of Authoritarian Institutions: The Case of China’s State Feminist Organization.” Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer) 21.1 (2016): 57–74.

Areas of Expertise

Comparative politics with an emphasis on China
Adaptation of authoritarian institutions
State-society relations under authoritarianism
Politics of (anti)corruption
Youth politics
Chinese investment in Europe

Activities

Selected conference presentations:

“Juniority and the Chinese Communist Youth League’s failed “Keep Youth Satisfied” mandate”, Conference on Youth Mobilisation and Political Change. Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), November 2019
“ChinaThreat.EU: Securitizing Chinese Economic Investment in Europe”, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, October 2019
“Authoritarian or Sinophobic Advance: Securitizing Chinese Economic Presence in Europe”, Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Nottingham, April 2019
“Juniority and the Chinese Communist Youth League’s abortive attempt to adapt:, 10th Annual International ADI Conference, Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen, June 2018
“COSCO in Piraeus: Discourse and Reality in a Major Investment Project”, University of Leeds Business School, Jan 2018
“Between Hopes and Ports: Material and Ideational Dimensions of Chinese FDI in Greece”, British Association of Chinese Studies 2017 Conference, Glasgow

Socrates Zachos

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Senior Research Fellow

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Ph.D, Panteion University

Socrates Zachos is a Senior Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre and a member of the editorial research team of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin.
He holds a PhD in International Environmental Law and Policy from the Panteion University of Athens. His thesis, conducted under the supervision of the Director of MEPIELAN, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, was entitled "Global Environmental Governance at Regional and Local Level. Issues, Challenges and Perspectives".

In 2002, he obtained a Bachelor in ‘International and European Studies’ from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. During 2003, he went to China, where he attended language and cultural courses in Beijing Language and Cultural University. In 2006, he received a Master degree in ‘Environment and Sustainable Development’ from the International and European Studies Department of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. Socrates Zachos has worked as Special Adviser on issues related to Environment, Sustainable Development & Transeuropean Municipal Networks to Georgios Papanikolaou, Mayor of Glyfada Municipality, from 2014 to 2018. He is currently serving as a Secretary General of Municipality of Glyfada.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Governance Regimes
Planning and Application of Environmental and Sustainable Development Policies at Regional and Local Level.
Environmental Governance at Regional and Local Level
Public Participation
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
Transboundary Movements of Hazardous wastes

Selected Publications

Zachos, S., “Unfolding Local Authorities Role and Contribution to the Rio+20 Process”, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, November 2012 (editor reviewed)

Activities

General Secretary of the Municipality of Glyfada, Attica, Greece
Teaching Associate, “International and Regional Environmental Governance”, (2011-2019), Postgraduate Programme of the Dept. of International & European Studies, Panteion University of Athens
Teaching Associate, “International Environmental Law and the Mediterranean” (2014-2019), Dept. of International & European Studies, Panteion University of Athens
Editorial Assistant, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin

Alexandros Kailis

Ph.D (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Senior Research Fellow

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Ph.D, Panteion University

Alexandros Kailis is a special advisor on International and European Affairs, and post-doctoral research associate in MEPIELAN Centre. He holds a Bachelor degree in International and European Studies from the Panteion University of Athens, and a Master of Laws (International Law, LLM) from the University of Southampton, UK. In 2015, he was awarded a PhD degree by the Panteion University of Athens for a thesis on the science-policy interface in the negotiation process of international environmental regimes, under the supervision of Professor and Director of MEPIELAN Evangelos Raftopoulos.
He has been working as a trainee, in the European Parliament and the European Commission (DG MARE). Between 2007 and 2011, he served as a Policy Officer to the Policy Development and Co-ordination Directorate of the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), European Commission. His main responsibilities included: development and implementation of the Integrated Maritime Policy of the European Union, at international, European and national level, and participation in the negotiation process of the European institutions in the field of maritime governance.
Since 2015, he has been a special advisor on International and European Affairs in the Presidency of the Hellenic Government. His main duties, include, among others: monitor and coordinate, at national level, the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and follow up the legislative work and the decisions taken by European Institutions and international organizations, in areas of particular importance for the Greek government.
His main research interests and publications lie in the fields of International Negotiations, International Organizations, International Environmental Law and Negotiations, EU law and policy, and sustainable development governance.

Areas of Expertise

International Law
International Negotiation Theory and Techniques
International Organizations
International Environmental Law and Negotiations
EU Law and Policy
Sustainable Development Governance

Selected Publications

Kailis, A. The influential role of consensual knowledge in international environmental agreements: negotiating the implementing measures of the Mediterranean Land-Based Sources Protocol (1980), International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol.17, No.2, April 2017, pp. 295-311
Kailis, A. Technological, Economic and Natural Knowledge in Managing Environmental Problems: The Experience of Negotiating the Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean against Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities (1996), Ocean Yearbook, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (January 2016), pp. 91-128.
Kailis, A. Mediterranean States Pave the Way for the Development of an Integrated Marine Litter Management Regime, MEPIELAN Centre E-Bulletin, December 2014, Panteion University of Athens, Greece
Kailis, A. Promoting an Integrated Maritime Strategy for the Atlantic Ocean Area: The European Union Leads the Way, MEPIELAN Centre E-Bulletin, February 2012, Panteion University of Athens, Greece
Kailis, A. Towards the Adoption of an Integrated Approach to the Governance of the Arctic Ocean-The European Perspective. Ocean Yearbook, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (September 2010), pp. 445-473.

Activities

Special Advisor on International and European Affairs, Presidency of the Government
Lecturer, National School of Public Administration and Local Government (ESDDA), 2017-2019
ESPA Lecturer:
- - The External Relations of the European Union: Law and Policy, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2019
  - Law and Theory of International Organizations, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2016-2018
  - International Negotiations for the Construction of international Common Interest, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2019
Teaching Associate
- - Theory and Techniques of International Negotiations, Postgraduate Studies Programme, (M.A), Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2011-2019
  - International Environmental Governance: The Legal Regime of the Protection of the Mediterranean against Pollution from Land-Based Sources, Postgraduate Studies Programme, (M.A), Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University of Athens, Greece, 2013 – 2015

Maria Striga

LL.M (Kent)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of Kent, United Kingdom

Maria Striga is a LL.M. Research Fellow at MEPIELAN Centre. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International and European Studies ('Excellent') from the Panteion University of Athens, Greece (2012), and a Master of Laws in Public International Law ('Distinction') from the University of Kent, United Kingdom (2015).

From March 2016 to July 2016, she served as a Trainee at the Maritime Safety Unit of the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission, dealing with maritime safety and prevention pollution issues. From February 2017 to December 2017, she worked as a Case Officer at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), while since January 2018 she has been working as a Vulnerability Expert at the same EU body. Since January 2018 she has been working as a Vulnerability Expert at the same EU body mainly identifying the applicants who are in need of special guarantees in the asylum process under the EU Law and conducting best interest assessments for the children asylum seekers.

In the context of her extracurricular activities, she has attended numerous conferences and seminars concerning International Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. In July 2014, her research paper entitled 'Political Parties and Human Rights - A comparative analysis on the Greek constitutional order under the light of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights' was awarded the second prize in the annual competition on Human Rights, held by the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights. In January 2015, her academic essay entitled '‘Critically Evaluate the Contribution Made by the Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle to the Development of International Environmental Law' was granted the first prize in a student competition held by the Law School of the University of Kent.

Within the context of her activities in MEPIELAN Centre, her special interests lie in the areas of Environmental Governance Regimes, Environmental Diplomacy, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as Public Participation in Environmental Governance.

Selected Publications

The United Nations General Assembly Adopts the First-ever Resolution on Illicit Trafficking in Wildlife', MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, Panteion University of Athens, published on 28 November 2015;
'The Nagoya Protocol Heralds A New Era for Sustainable Development', Kent LLM Blog, Kent Law School, published on 3 December 2014;
'Yasuni- ITT Initiative: A Case of Innovation in Global Sustainability Governance', Ourania Anastasiadou & Maria Striga, MEPIELAN E-Bulletin, Panteion University of Athens, published on 12 November 2012

Areas of Expertise

International Environmental Governance and Environmental Diplomacy
International Human Rights Law
International Migration Law
Vulnerable Groups in Asylum Context
Child Protection
Governance of Maritime Transport at EU level

Activities

Vulnerability Expert at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

George Raftopoulos

LL.M (UCL)

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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George Raftopoulos is a Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre and a member of the editorial research team of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International and European Studies from the Panteion University of Athens, and he has obtained Master of Laws (International Law, LLM) from the University College London (U.C.L.), specialized in International Law focusing on International and EU Energy Law, Environmental and Climate Change Law and Policy, Law of Treaties and Law of the Sea. He perused a dissertation on energy law issues under the title “Safety Regulations, Civil Liability and Compensation of Energy Offshore Installations in the Mediterranean Sea”. He has significant international experience as Energy and Environmental Law expert through numerous placements in International and European institutions. He has worked as a stagiaire in Landscape, Cultural Heritage and Spatial Planning Division of the Council of Europe under its director Dr. Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons (Strasbourg/France, 2012). As a graduate student, he attained an internship at ΙUCN – Environmental Law Centre (Bonn/Germany, 2015). Moreover, he has worked as a Legal Intern and later as an External Legal Consultant in the UK & EU Advocacy Team of WWF-UK (London/UK, 2017 and 2018), providing general legal support to the WWF-UK's Legal Unit in the light of Brexit vote and its complex legal and policy issues. In addition, through his Traineeship in the European Commission (Brussels/Belgium, 2017-18), he contributed actively to the legal analysis and negotiation preparation for proposed Regulations and to the preparation and writing of a Study Proposal related to the digitalization of the European energy transition (“Energy Efficient Cloud Computing Technologies and Policies-An eco-friendly approach”), which has been selected for funding (2018-19) by the Director-General, Roberto Viola. In Greece, he has worked as a Consultant at Metaxas & Associates Law Firm (Athens/Greece, 2019-2021) experiencing in practice the decision-making process in the energy field in Greece, coordinating scientific national and international projects/initiatives of the Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute. He has also advised on the legal documentation of solar PV projects of Greenpeace Greece (2021). Currently, he is working as Senior Policy Analyst/Consultant at BK Plus Europe producing tender documents and technical offers and contributing to the project context research and proposal writing.

Research Interests

Energy, Environmental and Climate Change Law and Policy
Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance

Activities

Senior Policy Analyst/Consultant at BK Plus Europe (Athens, Greece)
Member of the MEPIELAN Research Team actively involved in the research, writing and implementation of the project entitled “Mediterranean Accession Agenda to the Aarhus Convention”
Member of the MEPIELAN Research Team engaged in the research of the project entitled “Mainstreaming the Public Trust Approach (PTA) in the Barcelona Convention system”

Marina Soilemezidou

Ph.D (Panteion University), Academy of Athens

MEPIELAN Research Fellow

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Marina Soilemezidou is a Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre PhD. She holds a PhD in International Environmental Law and Policy from the Department of International and European Studies, Panteion University of Athens. Her thesis, conducted under the supervision of the Director of MEPIELAN, Professor Evangelos Raftopoulos, was entitled "International Governance of the Caspian Sea Legal Status: Political, Legal, Negotiating and Scientific Aspects”. In 2000, she received a Master’s degree in interdisciplinary ‘Oceanography and Marine Environment Management’ from the Geology and Geoenvironment Department of National and Kapodistrian University in Athens. She prepared her postgraduate thesis at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. She obtained a Bachelor in ‘Geography Department’ from Kirov State University of Kazakhstan. In the framework of her thesis, she took part in the governmental research project “Planning of partial transfer of Siberian river water flow to Kazakhstan and Central Asia.” She worked as a soil scientist - engineer at the Department of Research and exploitation of natural resources in the Institute of Agricultural, aerial photographs and geodetic surveys, USSR. She served as Oceanographer and GIS Scientist at the General Secretary of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Athens. She has worked also as a stagiaire and as employee (COREPER 1) in the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union in Brussels. She currently works at the Academy of Athens.

Areas of Expertise

The Caspian Sea regime
International negotiations Theory and Analysis
International Environmental Governance
Governance of the Legal Status of water bodies

Selected Publications

Tourism in the Aegean Sea. Sustainable Development and Ecology (M. I. Soilemezidou, I. D. Orfanidi) - In: The Aegean Sea Environment: The Natural System, (Eds.) Anagnostou С., Kostianoy A., Mariolakos I., Panayotidis P., Soilemezidou M., Tsaltas G., DOI 10.1007/698_2020_642, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland (in progress), 2022
Presentation on "Oceanographic research in Greece - Difficulties and challenges (hydrocarbons, delimitation of maritime boundaries, immigration, environment)", 5.04.2018, XIV International Scientific Conference on "Contemporary society problems and solutions in the context of transition to digital economy", Moscow Witte University
The problem of the International legal status of the Caspian Sea: Mechanisms of solving (Zhiltsov Sergey, Zonn Igor, Soilemezidou Marina), Herald of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Russia and the World, Publisher: Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow),ISSN: 2410-2415, Ν 4 (14), 2017, pages 74-84, https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=32501147

Activities

Co-editor of the 2 volume edition “The Aegean Sea Environment: The Natural System”, Anagnostou С., Kostianoy A., Mariolakos I., Panayotidis P., Soilemezidou M., Tsaltas G., DOI 10.1007/698_2020_642, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland (2020-2022)
Researcher at the European Center of Excellence Jean Monnet of the University of Athens (2019), Cartographic research in the Project HELLAS BY FOUR / Book by G. Valinakis "HELLAS OF THE FOUR SEAS", 2020

Ilias Diamantopoulos

B.A. (Panteion University)

MEPIELAN Research Assistant

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Ilias Diamantopoulos is a Research Assistant in MEPIELAN Center.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International, European, and Area Studies (“Excellent”) with a major in Public International Law and Institutions from the Panteion University of Athens, Greece (2022). Throughout his studies he wrote a number of module-specific research essays, which included “Limitation of Human Rights under International Human Rights Law”, “The Dispute Settlement Process in ICAO”, “International Law Commission and the Phenomenon of fragmentation of International Law”, “Effects of underdevelopment in Central and South America andthe Caribbean: the case of Chile”, “The SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation”. In the framework of his Bachelor’s Degree studies, Ilias, as an Erasmus exchange student, successfully completed a semester at the Law Department of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (2020-2021) specialized in EU Law.

From February 2022 to April 2022, Ilias conducted an internship at the A7 Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is in charge of political relations between Greece and the countries of North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. During his internship, Ilias conducted research and report drafting on the latest developments in the LAC countries and wrote research papers utilized for the Directorate’s internal briefing.

Ilias has also attended numerous academic seminars and conferences on International and European Law, International Relations, and Sustainable Development and produced papers. Moreover, he has been a member of the Panteion University Study Group on the application of the 17 SDGs to the university campus.

In January 2023, Ilias joined MEPIELAN Centre (Mediterranean Programme for International Environmental Law and Negotiation as a Research Assistant. Under this capacity, he conducts research in the realm of International and European Environmental Law and Governance in the Mediterranean context, works for the new edition of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin and he assists in the organization of a training school on the Sustainability Governance in the Mediterranean to be carried out by UNEP/MAP and MEPIELAN/EPLO.

For his research activity at MEPIELAN, he has been awarded a scholarship from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in May 2023.

Research Interests

Theory, Methodology, and Philosophy of Public International Law
International Environmental Law and Governance
International Law of the Sea
International Organisations
Sustainable Development Law and Policy

Activities

Member of MEPIELAN’s Research Team
State Scholarships Foundation scholarship recipient
Fellow of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)

Magdalini Parouti

Legal Advisor

MEPIELAN Centre, Panteion University of Athens

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Magdalini Parouti is a Research Fellow of MEPIELAN Centre and a member of the research team of MEPIELAN E-Bulletin. Magdalini is also a legal advisor, policy advisor and litigator in the areas of Public International and International Economic law, Environmental law and Sustainable Development, Human Rights, International Commercial, Regulatory Law, Adult Care and Mental Health law and International Affairs.

She holds a Bachelor’s in International and European Studies from Panteion University of Athens and a Bachelor’s in laws (LLB) specialising in Public International Law, Asylum Law and Human Rights and International Relations, with the University of Sheffield and London Metropolitan University (Faculty of Laws and Public International Law and International Relations). Magdalini is currently completing her LLM in International Economic Law with a special focus on sustainable development, energy and human rights with Queen Mary University, London. Her diverse work background encompasses extensive legal and policy advisory services to various central and local government organisations, such as International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Serious Fraud Office, (SFO), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC’s) Solicitors Office), Local Authorities, Magic Circle law firms, NGOs. Magdalini has also held in house-Counsel positions amongst others in commercial organisations, the charity sector and regulatory environments, providing both legal, policy, business and operational risk, advice. She is also the Founder and Chairwoman of Kind at Heart Foundation Charitable Organisation - supporting young homeless people with legal representation, education and creative arts and a Global Goodwill Ambassador. She has also undertaken diverse training with public bodies and NGOs, such as the A4ID (Advocates for International Development), Free Representation Unit on Social Security and Employment Laws, Middle Temple Mooting and Further Education for Young Barristers, and acquired a Practitioner’s Certificate in Data Protection (FOI & SOCA Regulations, GDPR). She is currently working as a Consultant for EKLLC London.

Research Interests

Her main research interests and publications lie in the fields of International Law, Human Rights, Sustainable development and governance, environmental migration, international economic law and energy, She is currently undertaking research in the role of trade law in sustainable energy and the environment.

Areas of Expertise

Public International Law and International Economic Law
International Environmental Law, Sustainable Development and Energy
Human Rights Law
Maritime Law
Immigration and Asylum Law and Corporate Immigration
Fraud & (POCA Regulations)
International Commercial Law and Conflict of laws
Arbitration and Mediation/Dispute Resolution
Regulatory, Data Protection (FOI & SOCA Regulations, GDPR)

Committees

Kind at Heart Foundation Charitable Organisation - supporting youth support via education and arts.
Global Goodwill Ambassador
International Bar Association, Int. Law Society, (C.O.L), registered ILSA Chapter founder and Co-President
Women in International Business Law, member
Interights (The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights) member and volunteer Liberty Letters member and case worker
FRU (Free Representation Unit), member and associate
A4ID – Advocates for International Development, member

Activities

Founder and Chairwoman of Kind at Heart Foundation Charitable Organisation - supporting youth support via education and arts.

Nadia Vassiliadou

Journalist

MEPIELAN Communication Officer

Ph.D (Cand), Dept. of Political Science & Public Administration, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Ph.D (Cand), Dept. of Political Science & Public Administration,
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Nadia Vassiliadou is a journalist, permanent member of ESHEA (Journalist’s Union of Athens Daily Newspapers) and Communication Officer of MEPIELAN Centre. She is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science & Public Administration, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, conducting research οn climate change and EU’s environmental policy in the european mass media.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Mass Media from the Panteion University of Athens and a Master of Arts in Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development from the Panteion University. Her Postgraduate thesis, in 2018, was entitled "Media and Environment in Greece: The Method of Managing General Environmental Issues by the Press - The Role of Media Owners, Journalists and the More Effective Use of Environmental Information Sources".

She is co-creator and journalist of the news website “PressPublica” (www.presspublica.gr), a partnership of independent media professionals, which has 12 members. From April 2015 to April 2017, she participated in the three-member committee, responsible for the multi-dimensional organization, sustainability, promotion, support of the website.

She has worked as a Communication Officer at the Ministry of Labor handling the Social Solidarity portfolio and at the Special Secretariat for Crisis Communication Management of the Ministry of Digital Politics, Telecommunications and Information.

She had been working as a journalist for the newspaper Eleftherotypia, the Sunday edition of it (Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia) and its website (www.enet.gr) between 2000 and 2014. Her main responsibility was the research, mostly focused on environmental and political issues, and the free reporting. In recent years, she had been accredited to the Ministry of Interior. At the same time, she acted as member of the investigative team at the “Reports Without Frontiers” newscast at ΕRΤ TV (between 2002 and 2005), while afterwards she worked at the newspaper “Documento” and its website as an accredited editor at the Ministry of Interior and responsible for research and free reporting.

Nadia has published numerous reports and conducted researches on environmental issues and corruption. Some of them have occupied the judiciary authorities, the press and the Greek parliament as they have served as a stepping stone to parliamentary questions. In 2014 she participated with her journalistic research to the documentary “128 Days in the Block", which was based upon the case of construction of a landfill in Keratea region, case that she had extensively covered and investigated on behalf of the newspaper.

Areas of Expertise

Climate Change and Mass Media
EU’s environmental policy in the European Mass Media
Mass Media and the environment in Greece
Mass Media and the Mediterranean sustainable environmental governance

Activities

Communication Officer of MEPIELAN Centre
Journalist of the news website “PressPublica”
Researcher, National Network for Climate Change and its Impacts