Venue: Mack President Bolig
18:00 Networking Reception (for speakers only)
18:30 Welcome: Vito De Lucia, Director, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea
18:35 Keynote Address: Prof. Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen
Venue: UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Teorifagbygget, hus 6, Auditorium 3
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08:30 Registration & coffee
09:00 Welcome addresses
09:15-10:15 Keynote by Prof. Nikolas Rajkovic
Moderator: Vito De Lucia, Director, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:15 Panel 1: Questions on Security, Enforcement, and Naval Warfare
Moderator: Konstantinos Deligiannis-Virvos
Efthymios Papastavridis ‘Cooperation in Maritime Law Enforcement Vs Freedom of Navigation’
Andrea Caligiuri ‘Freedom of Navigation and Unilateral Coercive Measures’
Alexander Lott, 'The Legal Regime of the Danish Straits in Peacetime and Wartime'
Shani Friedman ‘Governance of maritime security as a global public good – the case of the Red Sea Area’
Discussion (45 mins)
12:15 Group picture
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Panel 2: New Technologies and Scientific Advances in and for the Oceans
Moderator: Apostolos Tsiouvalas
Guri Eriksen, Melania Borit, Marianna Osokina, Jorge Santos, and Henrik Ringbom ‘Fisheries law, alternative futures and autonomous fishing technologies – Towards a new methodological Approach’
Maria Inês Gameiro ‘Technological acceleration and submarine cables’
Tihao Zeng ‘IWC at 80: BBNJ Agreement, Science and Evolving Epistemic Mandate’
Barbara Stepien ‘Sea drones and Naval Blockades’
Discussion (45 mins)
15:15-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:15 Panel 3: Deep Seabed Mining
Moderator: Maria das Neves
Valentin Schatz ‘How Resilient is the International Seabed Authority? Obligations of States Parties to UNCLOS to Enforce Part XI of UNCLOS against Companies Involved in Unilateral Activities in the Area’
Ekaterina Antsygina ‘Duty to Cooperate in the Context of Deep-Sea Mining’
Millicent McCreath ‘Architectural strains in the Regulation of seabed mining’
Discussion (45 mins)
19.30 Conference dinner (for speakers only) – venue TBD
Venue: UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Teorifagbygget, hus 6, Auditorium 3
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09:30-10:30 Keynote by Prof. Karen Scott
Moderator: Jan Solski
10:30-10:45 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Panel 4: Regime Interaction and the Law of the Sea
Moderator: Eva van der Marel
Nina Boss, Max Schaetzel, and Yi Zhao ‘Catching Waves: Exploration of the data governance regime of the BBNJ’
Xiaojing Wang ‘Procedural Precaution and the “Not-Undermining” Principle: Reinterpreting Article 5(2) of the BBNJ Agreement in the Context of ISA Interaction’
Hope Elizabeth Tracey ‘Heterogeneity, Discretion, and Ambiguity: A Systematic Analysis of the Relational Governance Provisions within the BBNJ Agreement and Implications for Implementation’
Holly Leung ‘Integrating Law of the Sea and the Law of Naval Warfare: An Evaluation of Possible Models’
Discussion (45 mins)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Panel 5: The Big Picture: Resilience of the Law of the Sea in a Tumultuous World
Moderator: Richard Barnes
Fiammetta Borgia ‘Beyond Systemic Integration: The Law of the Sea as a Networked Legal Order’
Jan Solski ‘From Exception to Template? The Northern Sea Route, Rent‑Seeking, and the Erosion of the Maritime Commons’
Trym Eiterjord and Romain Chuffart ‘Marine Scientific Research in the "new cold war"’
Rafael Prado ‘From Freedom to Responsibility: The Emergence of Common Concern of Humankind as a Constitutional Principle of Global Ocean Governance’
Discussion (45 mins)
15:15-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:00 High level panel
Panelists: Nicholas Rajkovic, Karen Scott, Vito De Lucia + TBC
Moderator: Jan Solski