Category: Academic
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Speaking at the 2026 ASIL Annual Meeting: BBNJ Clearing-House Mechanism (Washington DC, April 2026)
Last weekend (25 April) at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting in Washington DC, I had the privilege of speaking on Panel 6 — From Treaty Text to Practice: Establishing the BBNJ Implementation Architecture — convened by Christina Leb (The World Bank Group) and moderated by Nico Schrijver (Universiteit Leiden). The panel…
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Teaching Global Governance: A Five-Room Tour Through Multilateralism (April 2026)
Last Tuesday I gave a lecture on multilateralism for our Global Law master’s course at Maastricht. For the early 8:30am slot I wanted something engaging rather than a slide deck read aloud, so I built it as a guided tour through five rooms where global governance actually happens… 🏛️ Room 1 — the Grand Hall:…
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A Neurosymbolic Framework for Clinical Reasoning: Reflections from ByteMAL 2026 (Aachen, April 2026)
One lawyer and two computer scientists walk into a biomedicine and bioinformatics conference… It sounds like the opening of a joke, but last Friday (17-04-2026) it was byteMAL 2026 at RWTH Aachen. I was there with Rohan Nanda (Maastricht Law & Tech Lab) to present a neurosymbolic framework for clinical reasoning with biomedical evidence (co-authored…
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Invited Speaker at the 2026 ASIL Annual Meeting: BBNJ Implementation Architecture
Pleased to share that I have been invited to speak at the 2026 ASIL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (22–25 April) on the panel “From Treaty Text to Practice: Establishing the BBNJ Implementation Architecture.” The BBNJ Agreement entered into force in January 2026. The question now is how its provisions will be operationalised — particularly…
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New Publication: Intellectual Property and Benefit-Sharing Under the BBNJ Agreement
As discussions advance towards the BBNJ PrepCom, Júlia Schütz Veiga and I are pleased to share our latest article, published in Frontiers in Marine Science: “Between technological innovation and the ocean commons: intellectual property and benefit-sharing under the BBNJ Agreement.” In this article, we engage with a question that sits at the core of current…
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Views on Latin America – Tilburg University (March 2026)
Grateful for the invitation to join the “Views on Latin America” panel at Tilburg University earlier this month, organised by TiMUN Society and Studium Generale. Two topics, one afternoon: first, the intersections of environmental governance and indigenous rights; then, the challenges of regional integration in an age of new technologies. We covered a lot of…
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Knowledge Flows. Bodies Don’t: The Berghain Problem in International Law
‘Knowledge flows. Bodies don’t.’ This thought has stayed with me after co-authoring a recent piece for Stanford University’s CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics with Julia Schutz Veiga and Tony Lai on how international environmental law often treats Indigenous knowledge as a commodity while keeping Indigenous Peoples outside the rooms where decisions are made.…
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DOSI Policy Brief on Implementing the BBNJ Agreement’s Regime for Marine Genetic Resources
Proud to share the new Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) Policy Brief on implementing the BBNJ Agreement’s regime for marine genetic resources, released as we approach the Agreement’s entry into force in January 2026. This Brief brings together researchers and practitioners to offer clear, practical recommendations on how institutions can work together more effectively in this…
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Presenting at the NWO Future-Proof Regulation Symposium (November 2025)
Earlier this week, Rohan Nanda, Julia Schutz Veiga and I presented our joint work ‘Mapping the Unseen: Strengthening Citizen Oversight of Marine Genetic Resources through Artificial Intelligence’ at the NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) Future-Proof Regulation Symposium and Practitioner Day (17–18 November 2025). The meeting focused on a central question for regulators across Europe:…
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The Logic(s) of International Law
My latest publication for 2025 is out. Together with Antonia Waltermann, we co-edited a Special Issue of the Hague Yearbook of International Law on The Logic(s) of International Law. The motivating question for this Special Issue is simple, but the answers are not: what role does logic play in international law? And is there a…
Henrique Marcos 