Dr. Seline Trevisanut

Biography

Seline Trevisanut holds the chair of International Law and Sustainability at Utrecht University, where she has been since February 2018. She joined the university in 2012 as a Marie Curie Fellow, working on the research project "The International Law of Offshore Installations: Cutting Fragmented Regimes of Governance." In December 2014, she received an ERC Starting Grant for her project, "Accommodating New Interests at Sea: Legal Tools for Sustainable Ocean Governance," which ran from October 2015 to January 2021, focusing on legal frameworks for sustainable ocean use. Currently, she leads a research unit at Utrecht University for the Horizon Europe project ‘Coherent and Cross-Compliant Ocean Governance for Delivering the EU Green Deal for European Seas.’ Seline teaches general international law, international environmental law, and ocean law policy. Prior to her tenure at Utrecht, she conducted research at prestigious institutions including Columbia University and the European University Institute, and holds degrees from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Milan. Additionally, she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut du droit économique de la mer and various editorial boards. Her publications encompass topics such as irregular migration at sea and energy law from international perspectives.

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