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 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.
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Woker H.J. & Bernard L. (2025), A new constraint to the entitlement of a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles?: implications of the recent case law, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law : 1-26.
- Woker H.J. (2024), Disagreements between the commission on the limits of the continental shelf (CLCS) and submitting coastal states, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 39(2): 252-278.
- Woker H.J. (2023), Review of: Zou K. & Telesetsky A. (2021), Marine scientific research, new marine technologies and the law of the sea. Maritime Cooperation in East Asia no. 11. Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff. Ocean Yearbook Online 37: 615-619.
- Woker H.J. (21 July 2023), Preliminary reflections on the ICJ Judgment in Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia beyond 200 nautical miles from the Nicaraguan Coast (Nicaragua v. Colombia) of 13 July 2023. EJIL:Talk!: European Journal of International Law. [blog entry].
- Dalaker K.E. & Woker H.J. (2023), The Arctic and seabed mining. In: Tassin Campanella V. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea. Routledge Handbooks in Law. London-New York: Routledge. 280-289.
- Woker H.J. (2023), Challenging the notion of a "single continental shelf”, Ocean Development & International Law 54(4): 375-392.
- Woker H.J., Roland Holst R.J. & Harden-Davies H. (2023), New technology and the protection of the marine environment. In: Rayfuse R., Jaeckel A. & Klein N. (Eds.), Research handbook on international marine environmental law. Research Handbooks in Environmental Law series. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 409-427.
- Woker H.J. (2022), The law-science interface in the Arctic: science and the law of the sea, Yearbook of Polar Law 13(1): 341-358.
- Woker H.J. (2022), Interactions between law and science within the law of the sea: a systems theory perspective. In: Matz-Lück N., Jensen Ø. & Johansen E. (Eds.), The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes. Routledge Research on the Law of the Sea. London/New York: Routledge. 14-43.
- Woker H.J. (4 June 2021), The Law-Science Interface within the Law of the Sea: A Case Study of the Continental Shelf (Dissertatie. Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway). Tromsø: UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Supervisor(s): Bankes N. & Oude Elferink A.
- Jakobsen I.U., Woker H.J. & Parlov I. (1 July 2021), Launch of a New Research Project at NCLOS: Developing Good Ocean Governance of the Arctic in Times of Unpredictable and Rapid Changes (DOGA). NCLOS Blog. Tromsø: Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea. [blog entry].
- Woker H.J., Schartmüller B., Dølven K.O. & Blix K. (2020), The law of the sea and current practices of marine scientific research in the Arctic, Marine Policy 115: 103850.
- Woker H.J. (2019), The Law-Science Interface in the Continental Shelf Regime: an Intertemporal Analysis. 10th IHO-IAG ABLOS Conference: Opportunities and Challenges in the Governance of the Planet Ocean 8 October 2019 - 9 October 2019.
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