Hilde Woker
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. H.J. Woker LLM
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- h.j.woker@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5960-5934
Hilde Woker is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. Her specialization 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 is the holder of a Dutch Government Starting Grant, with the project 'H2OLAW: Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law.'
More information about Hilde Woker
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 specializes 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 has a Dutch Government Starters Grant with 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 course Inleiding Internationaal Publiekrecht and is involved in other courses/supervision offered by the Grotius Centre. She also teaches law of the sea at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Woker H.J. (30 April 2024), Nicaragua v. Colombia and the Delineation and Delimitation of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 NM. ESIL/ANZSIL IG Webinar on the 2023 ICJ Judgement between Nicaragua and Colombia, The European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on the Law of the Sea and the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Oceans and International Environmental Law Interest Group. [lecture].
- Woker H.J. (4 June 2021), The Law-Science Interface in the light of the Negotiations for a New International Legally Binding Instrument for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. [lecture].
- External censor