Category: Academic
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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,…
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LTH Special Journal Issue Published!
Part A of the special journal issue “Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law” has been published in Law, Technology and Humans (Vol. 7 No. 1, 2025)! This publication brings together research developed during the Narratives, Frontier Technologies & the Law (NFT-L) Conference, held at Maastricht University Faculty of Law on 30–31 October and 1 November…
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Visiting Period at Lund University
I want to express my deep appreciation to the Faculty of Law of Lund University for the kind welcome and support during my recent visit earlier this year. While at Lund, I focused on legal reasoning in marine environmental policy, especially examining the structure of decision-making processes and how we can enhance our understanding of…
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Sensemaking Worshop: AI, Regulatory Compliance, and Marine Environmental Policy
Alongside my colleague Rohan Nanda (Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University), we published a short blogpost on the sensemaking workshop we held on March 28th at Maastricht University Faculty of Law. Our goal was simple but ambitious: to foster honest dialogue across disciplines on how AI can (or cannot) support compliance with marine environmental regulation.…
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Capacity-Building Course for Young Law of the Sea Researchers
On the 29th of March, I had the opportunity to teach a session on legal research methods for the capacity-building course organised by the Center for Studies on the Law of the Sea at the University of São Paulo (CEDMAR/USP). It was a privilege to contribute to this initiative, and I am grateful to CEDMAR,…
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New Publication, ‘Tech Won’t Save Us,’ in LTH Journal
A colleague recently told me that they weren’t particularly concerned about climate change. After all, they had purchased an electric vehicle, invested in green funds, and installed solar panels on their roof. It was a familiar conversation—one that, I suspect, many of us have internally, often without realising it, as part of an uncritical assumption…
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ELS Funding Approved!
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…
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Invited Speaker on US-China Social Media Geopolitics (i.e., Whatever Happened to TikToK!?)
The colleagues of the Law & Popular Culture Network (Livia Solaro, Eline Couperus, Agustin Parise, and Arthur Willemse) at Maastricht University Faculty of Law have invited me to speak at their event “Whatever Happened to TikTok?” This event aims to bring together researchers to discuss the reasons and implications of the recent legal developments around TikTok, particularly its recent ban in the…
Henrique Marcos 