Hilde Woker
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. H.J. Woker LLM
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- h.j.woker@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5960-5934
Hilde Woker is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her specialization is the law of the sea, with a particular focus on the law-science interface and the continental shelf. She is the course coordinator for the undergraduate course ‘Inleiding Internationaal Publiekrecht’ (Introduction to Public International Law), and is involved in teaching and supervising in other courses offered by the Grotius Centre.
Hilde Woker is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. Her research focuses on the role of science in public international law and the law of the sea, and issues within the law of the sea more generally. Hilde previously worked at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) in Tromsø, Norway, where she also undertook her PhD research on the law-science interface within the law of the sea, focusing on the case study of the continental shelf. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in Australia (2018/2019), and an Early Career Fellow during the 13th Polar Law Symposium organised by Kobe University in Japan (2020). Prior to starting her PhD, Hilde completed internships at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg (2016) and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in Geneva (2015). Hilde holds a PhD degree in law from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (2021), an LLM degree in public international law from Leiden University (2014) and an LLM degree in the law of the sea from UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (2015). She completed the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy in 2017.
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Woker H.J. (21 July 2023), Preliminary reflections on the ICJ Judgment in Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia beyond 200 nautical miles from the Nicaraguan Coast (Nicaragua v. Colombia) of 13 July 2023. EJIL:Talk!: European Journal of International Law. [blog entry].
- Woker H.J., Roland Holst R.J. & Harden-Davies H. (2023), New technology and the protection of the marine environment. In: Rayfuse R., Jaeckel A. & Klein N. (Eds.), Research handbook on international marine environmental law. Research Handbooks in Environmental Law series. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 409-427.
- Dalaker K.E. & Woker H.J. (2023), The Arctic and seabed mining. In: Tassin Campanella V. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea. Routledge Handbooks in Law. London-New York: Routledge. 280-289.
- Woker H.J. (2023), Challenging the notion of a "single continental shelf”, Ocean Development & International Law 54(4): 375-392.
- Woker H.J. (2023), Review of: Zou K. & Telesetsky A. (2021), Marine scientific research, new marine technologies and the law of the sea. Maritime Cooperation in East Asia no. 11. Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff. Ocean Yearbook Online 37: 615-619.
- Woker H.J. (2022), The law-science interface in the Arctic: science and the law of the sea, The Yearbook of Polar Law online 13(1): 341-358.
- Woker H.J. (2022), Interactions between law and science within the law of the sea: a systems theory perspective. In: Matz-Lück N., Jensen Ø. & Johansen E. (Eds.) The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes. Routledge Research on the Law of the Sea London/New York: Routledge. 14-43.
- Woker H.J. (4 June 2021), The Law-Science Interface within the Law of the Sea: A Case Study of the Continental Shelf (Dissertatie. Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway). Tromsø: UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Supervisor(s): Bankes N. & Oude Elferink A.
- Jakobsen I.U., Woker H.J. & Parlov I. (1 July 2021), Launch of a New Research Project at NCLOS: Developing Good Ocean Governance of the Arctic in Times of Unpredictable and Rapid Changes (DOGA). NCLOS Blog. Tromsø: Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea. [blog entry].
- Woker H.J., Schartmüller B., Dølven K.O. & Blix K. (2020), The law of the sea and current practices of marine scientific research in the Arctic, Marine Policy 115: 103850.
- Woker H.J. (2019), The Law-Science Interface in the Continental Shelf Regime: an Intertemporal Analysis. 10th IHO-IAG ABLOS Conference: Opportunities and Challenges in the Governance of the Planet Ocean 8 October 2019 - 9 October 2019.
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