Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law

27/10/2023

🇺🇳💚🌊 The videos from our workshop "Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)" are now available on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyxlpaLsGdg-A7SwSfu4AMo4F47RwrhA. The workshop took place in Genoa, Italy on 1/09/2023 and was organized by the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law (ISRIM) and the Università di Genova. It is an UN Ocean Decade Activity.

A great thank you to the speakers: Marco Giovine, Iris Kirchner-Freis, Jessica Battle, Vasco Becker-Weinberg and Carl Grainger as well as the chairs: Andree Kirchner and Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe.

20/09/2023

💚🇺🇳As of today, we were granted Observer Status to the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), including its subsidiary organs, of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). We are looking forward to co-operate with UNEP particularly through our Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law (ISRIM) on promoting the protection and sustainable management of the world’s marine and coastal environments ( ). But we will also continue to engage in the topic 'Protecting the Environment in Armed Conflict' ( ). Our managing partner / CEO, Andree Kirchner comments: "I am particularly happy about the observer status both looking forward to co-operating with UNEP and looking back, 23 years after having been a research intern at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya."

10/09/2023

Farewell to participants and speakers of the 9th EuLoS Summer School, organized by the Università di Genova and the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law (ISRIM)* from 28/08-8/09/2023 after two intensive weeks in Genoa at the Italian Riviera.

A great thank you to speakers and participants coming from 🇧🇦, 🇧🇪, 🇨🇱, 🇨🇳, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇪🇸, 🇮🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇯🇵, 🇱🇧, 🇲🇾, 🇵🇹, 🇸🇪, 🇺🇸 as well as from the 🇺🇳 United Nations (International Maritime Organization - IMO, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, World Maritime University - headquarters), the 🇪🇺 European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), the Italian Coast Guard Office and the Italian Hydrographic Office of the 🇮🇹 Marina Militare.

* ISRIM is an independent science and research institute of the Hugo Grotius gGmbH - non-profit society for the advancement,ent of legal sciences in Bremen, Germany.

02/09/2023

UN Ocean Decade Activity: Some impressions of the workshop titled 'Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond natural jurisdiction' ( ), organized by the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law (ISRIM)* and the Università di Genova on 1 September 2023 at the Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy.

Speakers from government, NGO and academic perspectives gave some very interesting insights on the origin and negotiations of the new BBNJ agreement, which as adopted on 19 June 2023 at the United Nations in New York: Carl Grainger, Jessica Battle, Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Andree Kirchner, Iris Kirchner-Freis, Marco Giovine and Vasco Becker-Weinberg (from left to right).

* is a research institute of the Hugo Grotius gGmbH - non-profit society for the advancement of legal sciences in Bremen, Germany.

26/08/2023

Activity 🌊

💬Join the upcoming workshop on and sustainable use of , in Genova, .

The workshop titled 'Conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond natural jurisdiction' is organised by the University of Genova and the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law.

Learn more and join the conversation on the 1 September here: https://ow.ly/sL3L50PEsUm

06/08/2023

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05/08/2023

Our workshop on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction ( ) has been endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade activity. The topic will be discussed among experts on BBNJ and related aspects from different stakeholder's perspective. We are very pleased to present the following distinguished speakers: Jessica Battle, Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Marco Giovine, Carl Grainger, Iris Kirchner-Freis, Andree Kirchner and Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe. The workshop is organized together with the Hugo Grotius Society in co-operation with the Università di Genova in the framework of the EuLoS Summer School in Genoa, Italy.

26/07/2023

Hugo Grotius gGmbH in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC since 2023

We take great pride and pleasure in having been granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. The Council at its Management Segment on 25/07/2023 made this decision under agenda item 17: Non-Governmental Organizations, based on the recommendation of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations on its 2023 session.

The UN Charter established ECOSOC in 1945 as one of the six main organs of the United Nations. Building on its coordination role within the UN system, ECOSOC is a gateway for UN partnership and participation by the rest of the world. It offers a unique global meeting point for productive dialogues among policymakers, parliamentarians, academics, foundations, businesses, youth and NGOs.

Particularly with our research institutes, the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law (ISRIM) and the Institute for IT, Media and Intellectual Property Law (Institut für IT-, Medien- und Immaterialgüterrecht), we are looking forward to:

- co-operating with the United Nations,
- providing expert analysis on issues directly from our experience in the field,
- helping to implement international agreements,
- helping to raise public awareness of relevant issues,
- playing a role in advancing United Nations goals and objectives
- contributing with essential information at organization events.

15/07/2023

Together with Università di Genova, the Institute for the Law of the Sea and International Marine Environmental Law organizes a workshop on the new agreement, which was adopted on 19 June 2023 in the framework of the United Nations. It is about the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas covering two-third of the .
A video recording of the workshop, which takes place on 1/09/2023 in Genoa, Italy will be available on our channel.

16/06/2023

The 9th EULoS Summer School on the European Union and the Law of the Sea (EULoS) from 28/08-8/09/2023 at the University of Genoa, Italy is open for applications. Please visit the EULoS website at www.eu-los.eu.

After having been held for eight consecutive years, the ninth edition of the summer school on European Union and the Law of the Sea (EULoS) will also be offered in 2023.

12/07/2022

Call for applications: The 8th EuLoS Summer School will take place from 29/08 until 9/09/2022 in presence again in Genoa, Italy. Exciting lectures from experts of the UN system, European Commission, Italian Navy and professors from EU and non-EU countries form an intensive two-weeks programme at the beautiful Italian Rviviera.