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"Contributors" [2018] ELECD 966; in Jayakumar, S.; Koh, Tommy; Beckman, Robert; Davenport, Tara; Phan, D. Hao (eds), "The South China Sea Arbitration" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xi

Book Title: The South China Sea Arbitration

Editor(s): Jayakumar, S.; Koh, Tommy; Beckman, Robert; Davenport, Tara; Phan, D. Hao

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788116268

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contributors Erik Franckx is full-time research professor and President of the Department of International and European Law, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since 2017 he has served as President of the Belgian Society of International Law. He holds teaching assignments at Vesalius College (VUB); Université Libre de Bruxelles; Brussels School of International Studies (University of Kent); Institute of European Studies (VUB); Université Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He is appointed by Belgium as an expert in maritime boundary delimitation to the International Hydrographic Organization (2005­); member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2006­); member of the national Commission for the Reform of Private and Public Maritime Law (2012­); and arbitrator under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (2014­). He has taught about 20 short courses since 1992 in diverse countries and was an invited speaker at about 70 international conferences during the period 2006­15. He served as a consultant to governments, international, supranational and non-governmental organisations. He served as the only foreign legal counsel on behalf of the Netherlands in the Arctic Sunrise Arbitration against the Russian Federation (2013­). He has published widely, with a special interest in the law of the sea. As a former student of Professor Louis B Sohn at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA, where Professor Franckx obtained an LLM, he was privileged to be invited to update the second edition of the two major publications ...