Bilde av Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves, Maria Madalena
Bilde av Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves, Maria Madalena
Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea maria.m.neves@uit.no +4777646923 You can find me here

Maria Madalena Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves


Associate Professor

Job description

Maria Madalena das Neves is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, and a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (previously K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea), at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Maria is currently the academic director of the LLM Programme in Law of the Sea. Maria also teaches energy law and international and EU trade law. Maria is an attorney enrolled in the Portuguese Bar Association and has worked as an attorney with a number of companies and public entities in the energy and maritime sectors. She has also been the legal advisor to the Honorary Consul of Portugal to Tromsø, Norway (2011-2017). Maria holds a Licenciatura in law (Portuguese Catholic University), a Postgraduate Diploma in maritime law (Portuguese Lusophone University), a LL.M. in law of the sea (University of Tromsø), and a Ph.D. in enegy law (University of Tromsø). Maria has also completed the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy. Maria has also been a visiting researcher at the Groningen Centre for Energy Law at the University of Groningen, Netherlands; and a guest associate professor at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan.


  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Law of the Sea and International Investment Law
    Routledge 2022 DOI
  • Julia Martha Gaunce, Jan Jakub Solski, Iva Parlov, Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Anthropocentric Ocean Connectivity: A Pluralistic Legal-Regulatory Model
    Arctic Review on Law and Politics 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Offshore Renewable Energy and the Law of the Sea
    Cambridge University Press 2020
  • Nigel Bankes, Maria Madalena das Neves :
    The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Arctic
    Palgrave Macmillan 2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves, Nigel Bankes :
    The Energy Policies of Selected Arctic States
    2015
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Electricity interconnection and trade between Norway and Russia
    Arctic Review on Law and Politics 2014 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Maria Madalena Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves :
    How to design good exams?
    2024
  • Maria Madalena Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das N :
    Norwegian Parliament approves opening the Norwegian continental shelf to seabed mining: Rowing against the tide?
    2024
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Implications of energy crisis and geopolitical tensions for ecosystem-based management of offshore extractive activities in northern Norway
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    International Agreements Relevant to the Deep Central Arctic Ocean
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Deep Seabed Mining: ISA Exploitation Regulations
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    The Role and Relevance of the LOSC in the Regulation of Offshore Renewable Energy
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Securing critical offshore energy installations: Norway's regulatory approaches
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Deep-Sea Minerals Exploitation: The 2-Year Rule Deadline is Running Out, What Happens Next?
    NCLOS Blog 2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Developing Resilient International Law and Governance for Protecting the Arctic Marine Environment in Turbulent Times
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Energia Offshore
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves :
    Energy Security and Threats to Critical Offshore Energy Infrastructure in the Arctic
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves :
    Offshore Renewable Energy
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves :
    Legal Challenges to Protecting Critical Offshore Energy Installations
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das N, Nikolaos Gkikas :
    The nexus between climate change mitigation, offshore renewable energy and blue justice
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das N :
    Arctic Critical Minerals and Metals for Energy Transition
    2023
  • Maria Madalena Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das N :
    Nuclear power renaissance in the Arctic in the context of energy transition and climate change mitigation
    2023
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Marine Protected Areas in the High Seas
    2022
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Norway
    2022
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Designing an Effective Environmental Assessment Regime for the Exploitation of Mineral Resources in the Area
    2022
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Seabed mining in Norway: reconciling economic development with effective protection of the marine environment
    2022
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Digital transformasjon i juridiske yrker og implikasjoner for utdanning
    2021
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Floating nuclear power plants in the Arctic: possible contribution of the Arctic Council/EPPR RAD EG to address regulatory gaps
    2021
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Deploying Wind Farms on the High Seas: Sovereignty Claims, Creeping Appropriation, Privatization of the Oceans, or an Opportunity for Strengthened Cooperation?
    2021
  • Maria Madalena das Neves, Ingrid Solstad Andreassen :
    Miljø-, energi-, og havrett knyttet til Klimasøksmålet Arktis, og dets påvirkning
    2021
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    "Applicability of International Conventions to Floating Nuclear Power Plants – Nuclear Law and Law of the Sea"
    2020
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Norway
    Yearbook of International Environmental Law 2020 DOI
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Deploying Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic: Legal and Regulatory Gaps and Challenges (Arctic FNPPs)
    2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Selected Law of the Sea Issues
    2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Applicability of the law of the sea and nuclear law to floating nuclear power plants
    2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Norway
    Yearbook of International Environmental Law 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Book Review: PETROLEUM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: HOW GOVERNMENTS MANAGE THEIR OFFSHORE PETROLEUM RESOURCES by John A.P. Chandler
    Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    'Challenges associated with the use of Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic'
    2019
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic. A discussion of Advantages, Disadvantages, and the Regulatory Framework.
    2018
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Floating Nuclear Power Plants and the Law of the Sea
    2018
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Deep-sea Mining: Intersections with Other Activities
    2018
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Svalbard's Maritime Zones:'Testing the Waters' for a Future Dispute
    2017
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    EFTA Surveillance Authority Rejects Complaint Against Norway Related to Snow Crab Fisheries
    JCLOS Blog 16. October 2017
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    How is the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) likely to affect Norway's Energy Policy?
    2017
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Implications of Norway's position as a key energy producer in its assessment of the role of international investment law.
    2016
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Legal Challenges for a Changing Ocean
    2014
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    The Legal Framework for Norway's External Energy Trade and Investment Relationships
    2014
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    Implications of Norway’s position as a key energy producer in its assessment of the role of international investment law
    2014
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    The protection of energy investments in two Arctic territories, Svalbard and Greenland
    2014
  • Maria Madalena das Neves :
    The legal framework for Norway's external energy trade and investment relationships
    2013

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    Research interests

    Research areas: law of the sea, energy law, EU/EEA law, international trade law, international investment law, nuclear law.

    Teaching

    Teaching Experience:

    JUR-2003 EU/EØS-rett - 2021

    JUR-3619 Energy and Climate Change Law - 2020-2023

    JUR-3619 Energy Law - 2012-2019     

    JUR-3602 Introduction to International and EU Trade Law - 2018-2021, 2023

    JUR-3050 General Law of the Sea - 2013, 2015, 2018-2021, 2023

    JUR-3053 Law of the Sea and the Arctic - 2016-2021

    JUR-3054 General Law of the Sea II - 2016-2020

    LLM Writing Courses - 2013, 2015, 2017-2019, 2023

    Introductory Pedagogic Courses for PhD students - 2017, 2018

    Regulation of Energy Activities under Public International Law (Kobe University, Japan) - 2017

     

    Other faculty service:

    2023 - Acting Director of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (March-August)

    2018-  Alternate Member of the Faculty of Law Academic Committee, UiT

    2018-  Head of Exams Committee for the LL.M. Programme in Law of the Sea

    2018-  Academic Director of the LL.M. Programme in Law of the Sea

    2013-2014  Alternate Member of the Faculty of Law Research Committee, UiT

     


    Member of research group