Tag: BBNJ
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Two Papers at SKILLED-LLMs, FLoC 2026 (Lisbon, July 2026)
Last week I presented two papers at the SKILLED-LLMs workshop in Lisbon, part of FLoC 2026, the 9th Federated Logic Conference. Both start from the same observation. Ask a large language model a hard question and you will always get an answer. Where the underlying knowledge is genuinely contested, that fluency does more harm than…
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Coding Nature in the DOSI Deep-Sea Round-Up (June 2026)
The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative closed its Deep-Sea Round-Up of 11 June 2026 with a feature on a course I teach. Coding Nature is a Legal Challenge course for first-year LLB students at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law. Over a semester, three groups worked as legal advisers to DOALOS and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign…
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New Publication: Who Owns Marine Genetic Resources, and Who Owes What? (Leiden Journal of International Law)
Who owns marine genetic resources, and who owes what to whom? This is one of the most consequential governance questions in contemporary international law, and one of the hardest to answer. Marine genetic resources sit at the centre of biotechnological innovation across pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and industrial biotech. Yet the international rules governing their access, use,…
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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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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…
