Author: Henrique Marcos
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The “Legal Rule Tagger” Teaching Tool
I’m happy to share my new interactive teaching tool, the Legal Rule Tagger. Available here: https://henriquejbmarcos.github.io/legal-rule-tagger/ This tool is designed for law students and instructors. It helps users tag and visualise the logical structure of legal rules — particularly the relationships between consequences, cumulative conditions, and alternative conditions. How it works Because it’s browser-based with…
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Technology in its Villain Era – Gikii 2025
On 11-12 September, I joined the Gikii 2025, “Technology in its Villain Era”, at the Institution of Information Law (IViR) at Universiteit van Amsterdam. Special thanks to the wonderful organisers, Anh Nguyen, Bengi Zeybek, Anushka Mittal, for the space to present my work and for the invitation to join the programme committee. My presentation, “Moby…
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BBNJ Cambridge Blogpost shared by DOSI
I’m happy to share that the text I published with Julia Schutz Veiga in the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) was featured in the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) ‘s September 2025 newsletter! Our piece addresses a critical gap in the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement: how to turn Article 14’s benefit-sharing commitments into practice.…
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Participation in the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3, Nice)
From 8–13 June 2025, I had the opportunity to attend the Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France, as part of the Maastricht-São Paulo delegation. I participated as a scientific delegate (not representing the interests of any nation), affiliated as a Lecturer at Maastricht University Faculty of Law and a Researcher at CEDMAR…
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Open Access Publication with the German Yearbook of Int’l Law
Escher’s Waterfall is unsettling to me. A perpetual cascade of water whose origin and end are indistinguishable. Water forever falling and returning, causality suspended in an optical illusion. This impossible structure haunted me as I wrote my article “Causal Loops, Ontological Crises, and Customary International Law”, now published in the German Yearbook of International Law.…
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Article Publication in the International Community Law Review (Open Access)
My latest article, ‘Lex Specialis as a Reason-Giving Norm: Balancing Norm Specificity and Individual Rights in Times of Crisis’, is now available in International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, 2025). At the heart of this piece is a computational reasoning framework that reinterprets lex specialis—not as a rigid trump card, but as a defeasible, reason-giving…
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Dutch National Ocean Science Conference (NOSC, 2025)
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the National Ocean Science Conference, organised by the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, the Sustainable Ocean Community, and Universiteit Utrecht. Alongside my colleague Rohan Nanda, I was honoured to present our research on MGRs—co-authored with the brilliant Julia Schutz Veiga who unfortunately could not attend—and contribute…
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I’m an Accredited Scientific Delegate at UNOC3 (Nice, June 2025)
I’m honoured to share that I’ve been officially confirmed as an accredited scientific delegate to the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference, from 9–13 June in Nice, France. The UN Ocean Conference is a high-level diplomatic event, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, aimed at accelerating action to implement Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14: the conservation…
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Guest Speaker at the European Law Students’ Association (Maastricht, 2025)
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the opening of the annual event organised by the ELSA / ELSA Maastricht Alumni Network at Maastricht University Faculty of Law, where we discussed the paths, challenges, and possibilities of building an academic career in Europe. What made this invitation truly special is that it came from…
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Featured Article on Opinio Juris: ‘The US–China Mirror’
New Featured Article on Opinio Juris: The US–China Mirror: TikTok, National Security, and Techno-Nationalism. Drawing on insights from the February 2025 event ‘Whatever Happened to TikTok?’ at Maastricht University Faculty of Law, I discuss the recent US ban (and unbanning) of TikTok to explore how techno-nationalism is shaping geopolitics and global law. In this piece,…
Henrique Marcos 