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2026 Faculty
Prof. Alexander Proelss Dr. Alexander Proelss is the Chair in the International Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law, Public International Law and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg, where he is also the Director of the Institute for the Law of the Sea and for Maritime Law (ISSR). Before joining the University of Hamburg in 2018, he was Professor for Public Law, in particular Public International Law and European Union Law, at the Universities of Trier (since 2010) and Kiel (since 2007). While international environmental law and the international law of the sea constitute the focal points of his research, he has also published extensively on issues of general international law, European Union law, and constitutional law. Alexander Proelss has been a member of several national and international research consortia and has advised State agencies, international organizations and private actors both in Germany and abroad at numerous occasions. He has held visiting professorships at leading foreign universities and regularly offers lectures and courses at international conferences and as part of foreign study programme.
Prof. Maria Gavouneli LL.M. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Cantab); Guggenheim Prize Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law & Director, Athens Public International Law Center – Athens PIL; Director, Refugee & Migration Studies Hub – RMS Hub, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens OECD Centre for Population Dynamics, inaugural Chair of the Expert Advisory Board Fulbright Scholar – Greece at the University of California Berkeley (2018-2019); visiting professor and lecturer in several universities and research institutions around the world, including The Hague Academy of International Law (on Energy in international law), the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Tulane University (USA), the University of Edinburgh (Brodies Lecture), the University of Oxford, the University of Glasgow, the University of Manchester, Utrecht University, the University of Ankara, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, the NUS Academy of International Law, Académie de la Mer – Monaco; published extensively on the law of the sea, energy and environmental law as well as migration issues. (Global) President, International Law Association, 2024-2026; Vice-president, Hellenic Society of International Law & International Relations; Member of the Board of Directors and ex Director-General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy – ELIAMEP; Member of the Board of Directors, Aegean Institute on the Law of the Sea & Maritime Law President of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights Member, National Foreign Policy Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic Counsel, legal advisor and consultant in energy and environmental matters; arbitrator and Trade & Sustainable Development (TSD) expert under multiple EU trade agreements Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, France
Prof. ZHANG Xinjun Dr. ZHANG Xinjun is a Professor of Public International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research interests include the law of the sea, international environmental law, non-proliferation law and the law of treaties. He is the Director of the Center for the Law of the Sea Study in Tsinghua Law School. Dr. ZHANG’s Publication includes: 1. The U.S. Promotion of Internationalization and the Legal Order of the South China Sea: Sovereignty, Maritime Rights and Dispute Settlement, Oriental Law, 2022, Vol. 15, No. 1 (in Chinese); 2. Dispute Settlement Under Disarmament Treaties, in Hélène Ruiz Fabri (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (OUP, 2021); 3. Law and Politics in Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, Intellectual Property Publishing House (Springer, 2020); 4. The U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Shifting Legal Order of the Seas, Nanjing University Law Journal, 2020, Vol. 27, No. 4 (in Chinese); 5. Jurisdictional and Substantive Aspects in the Application of UNCLOS Article 83(3) in Recent International Decisions, in Myron H. Nordquist (ed.), Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region (Brill, 2020); 6. Bifurcation in Inter-state Cases, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 2019, Vol. 40, No. 4; 7. Nonappearance and Procedural Delicacy: Some Observations on the Tribunal’s Handling of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration, Journal of International Law and Diplomacy, 2018, Vol. 117, No. 2.
Prof. SHI Yubing Dr. SHI Yubing is a Professor and Vice Dean of Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School, as well as the Executive Dean of Zhejiang University Institute for Ocean Rule of Law. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Xiamen University, and the Vice President of Chinese Society for the Law of the Sea. Dr. Shi received his PhD in law from Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia in 2014 and served as a lecturer at the Law School of UOW from 2013 to 2014. He was the Dean of the South China Sea Institute and the Executive Dean of the Belt and Road Research Institute at Xiamen University before he joined Zhejiang University in 2025. His research interests include international law of the sea and the legal protection of the marine environment. He has published widely on marine environmental law, shipping regulation and legal issues on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). Dr. Shi was a member and adviser to Chinese Delegation to BBNJ Intergovernmental Conferences and the COP PreComs held in UN Headquarter in New York. |
