I am thrilled to share that our project “Artificial Intelligence and Marine Environmental Policy: What Role for Automated Systems?” will be funded by the Netherlands Empirical Legal Studies Academy.
This project has been a long-standing collaboration between Rohan Nanda and me, and we are now delighted to have the involvement of several colleagues, including external partners and consultants Cristiana Santos (Universiteit Utrecht) and Parveen Kumar (Wageningen University & Research).
After nearly a year of work, receiving this funding is a major milestone. It reinforces the importance of integrating computational methods into legal and policy analysis, particularly in the urgent area of marine environmental protection.
Our project aims to enhance our understanding of how climate change affects the seas by combining stakeholder perspectives with computational analysis of marine regulation. Our research aligns with key global and national initiatives, including the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the Dutch Maritime Strategy, and the Dutch Global Climate Strategy.
This project represents an exciting step forward in exploring how AI can support legal and regulatory processes in environmental governance. We look forward to collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and sharing our findings in the coming months!
A big thank you to everyone who has supported us, especially Foundations of Law Dept., Maastricht Law & Tech Lab, Maastricht University Faculty of Law.
Henrique Marcos 