讲座主题：The BBNJ agreement in/and the Arctic

讲座人：Professor Vito De Lucia

主持人：郭剑萍副教授

讲座时间：4月21日10：00-11:30

讲座地点：兴庆校区E910

讲座简介：The BBNJ Agreement is set to enter into force on 17 January 2026. This milestone triggers the requirement of holding the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP)—the agreement’s decision-making body—by January 2027. At this inaugural meeting, the COP must adopt key decisions, including its rules of procedure and those of its subsidiary bodies. It will also be positioned to “hit the ground running” on a range of substantive and procedural matters. A Preparatory Commission is actively laying the groundwork and will hold its third and final session in spring 2026. A central issue under discussion is how to enhance cooperation and coordination with other instruments, frameworks, and bodies. This has been a key question during the negotiations, and in the final treat text an uneasy balance has been found between restricting the authority of the BBNJ bodies vis-à-vis the competence of other IFBs, and the need for cooperation and coordination. This lecture will seek to explore these issues in the particular context of the Arctic region. The latter offers an illustrative case studies of these complexities, given its normative and institutional density, the increasing geopolitical tensions, and the rapid environmental transformations affecting the Arctic region.

主讲人简介：Vito De Lucia is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Director of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS). His most immediate research interests are located at the intersection of critical theory, international law and ecology and he has published extensively in the field of critical legal theory and legal philosophy, (international) environmental law and law of the sea. His methodological approach is pluralist, utilizing contextual, critical/socio-legal and doctrinal research methods and he is particularly interested in the historical and theoretical contextualization of law. His current research agenda focuses broadly on ocean commons, on the conservation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and on Arctic marine governance. He is author of The Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental law: Genealogy and Biopolitics (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of International Law and Areas beyond National Jurisdiction: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, Space and Justice (BRILL, 2022). He is preparing a new monograph on a critical history of the concept of sanctuary in international law (Routledge, under contract).