Osatohanmwen Anastasia Eruaga is a Research Fellow with the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and a Doctoral Candidate of the World Maritime
University, Sweden. She studied Law at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and
subsequently obtained an LLM (Maritime Law) from the University of Nottingham,
the United Kingdom, in 2009. She has been involved in extensive legal research and
writing in the areas of public law, especially Maritime and Human Rights Law. Her
current research brings her in close contact with maritime security-related issues.
With several individual and co-authored peer-reviewed book chapters and journal
articles to her credit, she has served as a speaker and guest lecturer at several
conferences. She served as part of the support faculty for the 2015/2016 and 2018/
2019 MSc class in Maritime Law and Policy (MLP) at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden.
Aref Fakhry joined WMU in 2014 as an Associate Professor. He mainly lectures in
WMU’s MSc Maritime Law and Policy specialization. His areas of expertise are
commercial maritime law, maritime security, marine environmental law, and ocean
governance and policy. Aref carries 15 years’ experience as a lecturer at the IMO
International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) and the International Ocean Institute.
He concurrently lectures at the Faculties of Law of the Holy Spirit University of
Kaslik in Lebanon and the University of Malta. He has acted as a consultant for
IMO, REMPEC, UNEP, UNCTAD and the European Commission. Aref earned his
PhD from the University of Southampton where he studied the implications of piracy
in the Horn of Africa on maritime contracts. He is an advocate registered at the
Montreal Bar in Canada. He is also a member of the Canadian Maritime Law
Association. He is a citizen of both Lebanon and Canada. He speaks fluently Arabic,
English and French and has a good level of Spanish.
Lixin Han is Vice Dean, Professor and Doctoral Tutor, Faculty of Law, Dalian
Maritime University; PhD in law; Arbitrator, China Maritime Arbitration Commission; Arbitrator, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission;
Arbitrator, Dalian Arbitration Commission.
Anish Hebbar serves as Assistant Professor of Maritime Safety and Environmental
Administration at the World Maritime University. His doctoral work focused on
governance of oil spill disasters and his master’s dissertation focused on risk
communication. His current work focus includes risk assessment, maritime accident
investigation, domestic ship safety and member state performance. As a practitioner
of the law of the sea in his previous service of over twenty-eight years in the Indian
Coast Guard, he gained deep insights into the several tenets of innocent passage
described in this book chapter.
Måns Jacobsson was Director and Chief Executive Officer of the International Oil
Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) from 1985 to 2006. In his earlier
career he served in the Swedish judiciary at district court and appellate court levels,
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University, Sweden. She studied Law at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and
subsequently obtained an LLM (Maritime Law) from the University of Nottingham,
the United Kingdom, in 2009. She has been involved in extensive legal research and
writing in the areas of public law, especially Maritime and Human Rights Law. Her
current research brings her in close contact with maritime security-related issues.
With several individual and co-authored peer-reviewed book chapters and journal
articles to her credit, she has served as a speaker and guest lecturer at several
conferences. She served as part of the support faculty for the 2015/2016 and 2018/
2019 MSc class in Maritime Law and Policy (MLP) at the World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden.
Aref Fakhry joined WMU in 2014 as an Associate Professor. He mainly lectures in
WMU’s MSc Maritime Law and Policy specialization. His areas of expertise are
commercial maritime law, maritime security, marine environmental law, and ocean
governance and policy. Aref carries 15 years’ experience as a lecturer at the IMO
International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) and the International Ocean Institute.
He concurrently lectures at the Faculties of Law of the Holy Spirit University of
Kaslik in Lebanon and the University of Malta. He has acted as a consultant for
IMO, REMPEC, UNEP, UNCTAD and the European Commission. Aref earned his
PhD from the University of Southampton where he studied the implications of piracy
in the Horn of Africa on maritime contracts. He is an advocate registered at the
Montreal Bar in Canada. He is also a member of the Canadian Maritime Law
Association. He is a citizen of both Lebanon and Canada. He speaks fluently Arabic,
English and French and has a good level of Spanish.
Lixin Han is Vice Dean, Professor and Doctoral Tutor, Faculty of Law, Dalian
Maritime University; PhD in law; Arbitrator, China Maritime Arbitration Commission; Arbitrator, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission;
Arbitrator, Dalian Arbitration Commission.
Anish Hebbar serves as Assistant Professor of Maritime Safety and Environmental
Administration at the World Maritime University. His doctoral work focused on
governance of oil spill disasters and his master’s dissertation focused on risk
communication. His current work focus includes risk assessment, maritime accident
investigation, domestic ship safety and member state performance. As a practitioner
of the law of the sea in his previous service of over twenty-eight years in the Indian
Coast Guard, he gained deep insights into the several tenets of innocent passage
described in this book chapter.
Måns Jacobsson was Director and Chief Executive Officer of the International Oil
Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) from 1985 to 2006. In his earlier
career he served in the Swedish judiciary at district court and appellate court levels,
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