Biography
Seline Trevisanut (PhD, University of Milan) is Professor of International Law and Sustainability at Utrecht University since 2018. She joined Utrecht University in 2012 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, with a project on The International Law of Offshore Installations. In the period 2015-2021, she was Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant Project “Accommodating New Interests at Sea: Legal Tools for Sustainable Ocean Governance” (Sustainable Ocean).
Seline Trevisanut taught and conducted research in various institutions, including Columbia University, the EUI, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the National University of Singapore, UC Berkeley and EHESS. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institut du droit économique de la mer (INDEMER) and several editorial boards.
Her publications include a monograph on Irregular migration by sea in international and EU law (2012, in Italian), several articles and contributions in peer-reviewed journals and volumes, and edited volumes, inter alia, on 'Migration in the Mediterranean: Mechanism of International Cooperation' (CUP 2015), 'Energy from the Sea: An International Law Perspective on Ocean Energy' (Brill 2015) and 'Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, theories and methods' (Brill 2020).
She is currently Ferdinand Braudel Fellow at the Law Department of the EUI, working on a monograph on 'Sustainable Development and the Law', co-authored with Prof. Angelica Bonfanti (University of Milan). The monograph was commissioned by the editors of the series Principles of International Environmental Law (E. Elgar Publishing).