Trial Lecture and Public Defence of Doctoral Degree: Konstantinos Deligiannis Virvos
On October 23, Konstantinos Deligiannis Virvos will hold his trial lecture and defend his doctoral thesis for the degree of PhD in Law.
The trial lecture will start at 10:15 on the prescribed subject:
"From IMO prescriptive to goal-based regulation of international shipping: Opportunities and constraints for the implementation and enforcement of GAIRS".
At 12:15, Konstantinos will defend his PhD thesis:
"An Ecosystem Approach to Shipping: International, Regional, and National Legal Limits and Prospects".
This doctoral thesis investigates the relationship between the “ecosystem approach”, which is a tool or a strategy for the management of ecosystems and shipping regulations at a global, regional, and national level. Shipping activities are regulated mainly in a globalized and highly sectorial and technical way. An ecosystem approach, by contrast, looks at the health of the entire ecosystem and considers how different activities interact, and attempts to regulate cumulative impacts. For this reason, the existing rules for shipping may initially seem difficult to combine with an ecosystem approach. This thesis challenges that view. It argues that an ecosystem approach to shipping can work within the existing legal framework. Such an approach could help address local environmental needs, take account of the combined effects of different activities, and improve cooperation between shipping and other sectors. The analysis focuses at the global, regional (Arctic) and national (Norway) levels, and identifies both legal limits and practical opportunities. Overall, it finds that an ecosystem approach to shipping is compatible with the existing rules governing international shipping.
First opponent: Professor Emeritus Aldo Chircop, Dalhousie University
Second opponent: Professor David Langlet, Uppsala University
Leader of the committee: Associate Professor Eva van der Marel, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
The public defence will be led by the Dean of the Faculty of Law at UiT, Docent Kristine Helen Korsnes.
The trial lecture and the public defence will be available via streaming. The streaming links are listed below: