Professor of law with a strong interdisciplinary profile as well as a strong profile in comparative law and proven personnel management skills.
Focusing on multi-regulated marine spaces, including issues such as: - Understanding the regulatory set-up, when the same fact-set is covered by more than one regulatory system. - Assessment of the current regulatory system's ability to encompass new ecological, environmental, or technological developments. - Establishing procedures and regulatory frameworks that balance contradictory interest that are still consistent with the existing legislative boundaries. - Pointing to new regulatory processes and content that may help unifying the contradictions of the current system. - Ensuring that new regulations are development and technology neutral and thus durable and relevant also in light of new innovations and climate change.
Focusing also on the interplay between private law and the public law regulations under the Law of the Sea and adjacent regulations.
PA1 - Planning and managing sea uses at the regional level
PA2 - Development of offshore marine multi-use infrastructures to support the blue economy
We offer to handle regulatory and safety-aspects of the MSP or Multi-Use priority area. 1. The existing legal framework under both priority areas are fragmented. Different uses and activities fall under different regulations that tend not to be aligned. Applying a specific and unique methodology aimed at handling clashes of law in the marine and maritime sphere, we will pinpoint discrepancies, general lacunae, as well as provide viable suggestions for future regulations. 2. One of the known challenges of co-location and multi-use structures is that different users display different approaches and cultures in regard to safety. This may be due to different regulation, see point 1, but may also be caused by different prioritization and different risk landscapes. This can cause conflicts between different users of the co-located activities. Using methods from safety studies and building on prior research within the field showing marked differences in risk perceptions in the fishing and offshore industries respectively, we will assess and address relevant safety perceptions in relation to priority area 1 or 2, and provide suggestions as to how any conflicting perceptions may be unified.
The deliverables above will be delineated so as to fit the scope of the call and the consortium.
regulation, multi-use, permitting procedures, innovative legal framework, safety cultures, conflicts between different users, authorities, decision-making, policy makers, legal