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JOBNAME: Kohen PAGE: 7 SESS: 6 OUTPUT: Tue Sep 18 15:50:05 2018 Contributors Mariano J. Aznar is since 2008 Professor of Public International Law at the University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain. He wrote his PhD thesis on the Verification of Disarmament Treaties (1994). Dr. Aznar has been visiting professor in several universities, including the Université de Paris II – Panthéon-Assas (2005) and the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ (2007). A founding member of the European Society of International Law and member of its Board (2004–12), he is Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish Yearbook of International Law (since 2013). His main research focuses are international responsibility of states, disarmament, maintenance of international peace and security, and protection of underwater cultural heritage. He has published four monographs and is also the author of several scientific articles. A Consultant Scholar of the Penn Museum and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cantab) and Patron of Spain’s National Museum of Underwater Archaeology, he is a legal expert on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage, acting for both the Spanish Government and UNESCO. He represented Spain before the Meeting of States Parties of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, and has participated in the drafting of the Operational Guidelines of this Convention and the new Spanish Law on Maritime Navigation. In addition, he acted as Advocate and counsel of the Kingdom of Spain before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Louisa case). Theodore Christakis is Professor of International Law at the University Grenoble Alpes and a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is Director of the Center for International Security and European Studies (CESICE) and Deputy Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. In recent years, he has been invited to teach at the Australian National University (several times), the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Chuo University in Tokyo, Kobe University, the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies and the Hague Academy of International Law. He has also been invited more than 70 times to give lectures and academic presentations in several conferences, colloquiums and seminars held in 25 countries. He has published or co-edited nine books and is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific articles and book chapters that focus on public international law, international security law, ethno-political conflicts, international and European protection of human rights, cyber security law and data protection. His most recent book, Cyber-Attacks. Prevention-Reaction: The Role of States and Private Actors (with K. Bannelier, Revue Défense Nationale, Paris, 2017) won the Cyber-Defense Book Award at the FIC-International Cybersecurity Forum in 2018. Aristoteles Constantinides is an Associate Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Law Department of the University of Cyprus and a founding member of the Department. He holds a PhD in International Law from Aristotle University of vii Marcelo G. Kohen and Mamadou Hébié - 9781782546870 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/30/2021 07:25:58PM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Kohen-Research_handbook_on_territorial_disputes / Division: Prelims /Pg. Position: 1 / Date: 4/9 JOBNAME: Kohen PAGE: 8 SESS: 6 OUTPUT: Tue Sep 18 15:50:05 2018 viii Research handbook on territorial disputes in international law Thessaloniki, Greece. He has held visiting positions at the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice and the Universities of Amsterdam, Grenoble Alpes, Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas, and McGill. He is a member of the ILA Committee on Recognition/Non-Recognition in International Law and various academic associations and committees. His research interests and publications include the law of the United Nations, statehood and recognition, the Cyprus problem, international human rights law, international development cooperation and armed groups. Since 2014, he has been a member of the team of lawyers advising the President of the Republic of Cyprus and the Greek Cypriot negotiator in the talks for the settlement of the Cyprus problem. In 2017, he received the first ever quality teaching award of the University of Cyprus. Katherine Del Mar is a barrister at 4 New Square (UK), developing a broad practice within chambers’ areas of expertise, in commercial law, construction law, banking and financial services, professional negligence, European Union law, public law and public international law. Katherine holds an LL.M in International Humanitarian Law (men- tion très bien) from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a PhD in International Law (mention très bien avec félicitations de jury) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. In 2011 and 2012, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. In 2015, she was a part of the team representing 4 New Square awarded Best Team at the inaugural Arbitration Weekend of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators. She was individually awarded Best Individual Advocate voted by delegates. She has appeared as counsel in several cases before international tribunals and courts, including territorial and maritime delimitation disputes before the International Court of Justice. Giovanni Distefano is Professor of International Law at the University of Neuchâtel. He received his PhD in International relations, majoring in international law, from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Since February 2009 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Neuchâtel. He has also been a visiting professor at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva). He has previously taught at the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Catania (Italy), Al-Ain (UAE) and IHEI (Paris). Mamadou Hébié is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden Law School), and a visiting professor at the Université Catholique de Lille. Before joining Leiden University, he was Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in the Master in International Dispute Settlement programme (MIDS). He holds a PhD (summa cum laude, avec les félicitations du jury) (2012), and a Diploma in Advanced Studies in international relations – specialization international law (2006) – from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He also graduated from Harvard Law School (2012) and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2005), and is a recipient of the Diplomas of the Hague Academy of International Law (2010) and the International Institute of Human Rights (2009). His Marcelo G. Kohen and Mamadou Hébié - 9781782546870 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/30/2021 07:25:58PM via free access Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Kohen-Research_handbook_on_territorial_disputes / Division: Prelims /Pg. Position: 2 / Date: 4/9 JOBNAME: Kohen PAGE: 9 SESS: 6 OUTPUT: Tue Sep 18 15:50:05 2018 Contributors ix PhD thesis, published as a monograph under the title ‘Souveraineté territoriale par traité: Une étude des accords entre puissances coloniales et entités politiques locales, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, Graduate Institute Publications, 2015’, won in 2016 the Paul Guggenheim Prize in International Law. He acted as adviser to the Argentine Republic in the ARA Libertad case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, as well as being a consultant for the African Union Border Program and the UN Investment Support Programme for the Least Developed Countries. Pierre Klein is Professor of International Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is the author or co-author of three books and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with various issues of public international law (law of international organ- izations, international responsibility, settlement of disputes, terrorism, peace and security). He also appeared as counsel in several cases before the ICJ and ITLOS, and acted as an expert for IGOs and NGOs. Marcelo G. Kohen is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1995. He is a Titular Member of the Institut de Droit International, and its Secretary General since 2015. He has worked as legal counsel and advocate for a number of states before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and other tribunals. He also acts as an arbitrator. He has been a visiting professor at several European universities, and Rapporteur or Co-rapporteur for the International Law Association, the Council of Europe and the Institut de Droit International. He is the author of many publications in the field of international law, in English, French and Spanish. He was awarded the Paul Guggenheim Prize in 1997 for his book Possession contestée et souveraineté territoriale (Adverse Possession and Territorial Sovereignty). Vaios Koutroulis is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), for which he was awarded the George Tenekides prize from the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations. Having studied law at the University of Athens