Bilde av Klerk, Bastiaan (Bas)
Bilde av Klerk, Bastiaan (Bas)
PhD Research Fellow Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea bastiaan.e.klerk@uit.no +4777646797 Tromsø You can find me here

Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk


Job description

Bastiaan is an LL.M. graduate from the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in public international law and international law of the sea respectively, currently pursuing a PhD at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS). His academic interests lie mostly in the realm of marine environmental protection, climate change law, biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, and regime interactions studies. His PhD project is titled Area-Based Management Tools in Changing Oceans: A Study on Dynamism, in which he addresses the challenge of protecting dynamic marine ecosystems, proposing a novel, integrated, and highly dynamic approach to their protection, which, he argues, is more apt to address the challenges that the dynamic nature of marine ecosystems present.


  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Ocean in Motion: Addressing Gaps in MPA Governance in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
    11. July 2025 DOI
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    The ITLOS advisory opinion on climate change: Revisiting the relationship between the United Nations convention on the law of the sea and the Paris agreement
    Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 12. January 2025 DOI
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    To Lex Specialis, or not to Lex Specialis? The Paris-UNCLOS Nexus in the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
    The NCLOS Blog 2024
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk, Katharina Heinrich, Raul Primicerio :
    Beyond equilibrium thinking: dynamic area-based management tools in a changing ocean
    Frontiers in Marine Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Reflections on the Institutional Nature of the New Regime for ABMTs and MPAs under the BBNJ Agreement
    Ocean Development and International Law 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    30 by 30? Navigating the Paradoxes of Part III of the BBNJ Agreement
    International Law Blog 2023
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    From Undermining to Strengthening: Implications of the Forthcoming Agreement on Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction for MPA Governance in the North-East Atlantic
    The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 16. January 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study
    Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 16. December 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Recognizing Recognition: An Indispensable Element in a Global Regime for High Seas Marine Protected Areas
    The NCLOS Blog 2022
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Rapid reaction to ITLOS climate change advisory opinion
    29. May 2025
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    The BBNJ Agreement and Cooperation Among IFBs: Lessons Learned from the OSPAR-NEAFC Collective Arrangement
    20. February 2025
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    IUCN at International Courts
    06. May 2025
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Dynamic Area-Based Management Tools for a Changing Ocean: A Case Study
    06. May 2025
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    The ITLOS Advisory Opinion and the relationship between UNCLOS and the Paris Agreement
    2024
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Taming the Tide: Legal Implications of the Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED)
    2024
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? Reflections on the Institutional Nature of Part III of the BBNJ Agreement
    2024
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    BEYOND EQUILIBRIUM THINKING: DYNAMIC AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN A CHANGING OCEAN
    2024
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Legal Aspects of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean Sea: An Adriatic and Ionian Perspective, edited by Mitja Grbec, Tullio Scovazzi, and Ilaria Tani
    The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 2024 DOI
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Introduction to the Outcomes of the 2022 NCLOS Conference on Ocean Space – The NCLOS Blog
    26. January 2023
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    BEYOND EQUILIBRIUM THINKING: DYNAMIC AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN CHANGING OCEANS
    2023
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Dynamic Marine Protected Areas: Catch-up for the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DoC) and Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI)
    2023
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    CLIMATE CHANGE OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE LAW OF THE SEA: INTERPRETING UNCLOS IN LIGHT OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT
    2023
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk, Katharina Heinrich :
    BEYOND EQUILIBRIUM THINKING: DYNAMIC AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN CHANGING OCEANS
    2023
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    BEYOND EQUILIBRIUM THINKING: DYNAMIC AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN CHANGING OCEANS
    2023
  • Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk :
    Dynamic Marine Protected Areas
    2023
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    AREA-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN CHANGING OCEANS: FROM STATIC TO DYNAMIC APPROACHES
    2022
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Towards Dynamic Area-Based Management Tools: Legal Hurdles and Possibilities in International Law
    2022
  • Bastiaan (Bas) Klerk :
    Embracing Fluidity: Dynamic Approaches to Marine Protected Areas
    2022

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    Publications outside Cristin

    B.E. Klerk, 'Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study' (2022) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

    B.E. Klerk, ‘Recognizing Recognition: An Indispensable Element in a Global Regime for High Seas Marine Protected Areas’ (2022) Blog of the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea, available at <NCLOS blog>

     B.E. Klerk, ‘Climate Change Obligations under the Law of the Sea: Interpreting UNCLOS in light of the Paris Agreement’ (2022) Master Thesis, University of Oslo, available at <duo.uio.no>

     B.E. Klerk, ‘Lessons to be learned from OSPAR’s network of marine protected areas in areas beyond national jurisdiction, in light of the BBNJ negotiations’ (2020) Blog of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, available at <NCLOS Blog>

     B.E. Klerk, ‘Creating Synergies Between Global and Regional MPA Regimes in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’ (2020) Master Thesis, Arctic University of Oslo, available at <munin.uit.no>


    Research interests

    Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Climate Change Law, Biodiversity Protection, Regime Interaction

    Teaching

    JUR-3050 General Law of the Sea (seminars)

    JUR-3623 Protection of Marine Environment with focus on Marine Living Resources Law (seminars)



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