Hilde Woker is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her specialisation is the law of the sea, with a particular focus on the law-science interface and the continental shelf. She is the course coordinator for the undergraduate course 'Inleiding Internationaal Publiekrecht' (Introduction to Public International Law) and is involved in teaching and supervising in other courses offered by the Grotius Centre. She was awarded a Dutch Government Starting Grant for the project 'H2OLAW: Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law.'

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Education

Hilde Woker holds a PhD degree in law from UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (2021), an LLM degree in Public International Law from Leiden University (2014) and an LLM degree in the Law of the Sea from UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (2015). She completed the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy in 2017.

Career

Hilde took up her position as Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies in 2021. Before moving to Leiden, Hilde worked at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) in Tromsø, Norway, where she also undertook her PhD research. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in Australia (2018/2019), and an Early Career Fellow during the 13th Polar Law Symposium organised by Kobe University in Japan (2020). In 2024, she returned to NCLOS in Tromsø for a research stay. Prior to starting her PhD, Hilde completed internships at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg (2016) and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations in Geneva (2015).

Research

Hilde specialises in the law of the sea, with a particular focus on law-science interfaces, such as the delineation and delimitation of the continental shelf and other maritime zones and the use of scientific standards within the law of the sea. She also has expertise in Arctic governance and has lived in the Arctic for many years. She was awarded a Dutch Government Starters Grant for the project 'H2OLAW: Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law', together with Jason Rudall. Hilde is a member of the Dutch National Ocean Decade Committee.

Teaching

Hilde is the course coordinator for the undergraduate course 'Inleiding Internationaal Publiekrecht' (Introduction to Public International Law) and is involved in other courses/supervision offered by the Grotius Centre. She also teaches law of the sea at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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