Job description

Dr Jessica N.M. Schechinger is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) at the UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law. She is a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Protection of People at Sea, and the European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Action CA23103 - Life, liberty and health: ensuring universal protection of human rights at sea (BlueRights), and was a co-convenor of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on the Law of the Sea (2018-2024).

Her main expertise and research interests are in the areas of general international law, international law of the sea and international human rights law. Currently, she is mostly working on the protection and regulation of persons at sea and human rights at sea (also as part of her forthcoming monograph on the regulation of privately contracted armed security personnel (PCASP) operating at sea); Ocean Justice; (maritime) piracy; and issues of maritime security (including environmental and maritime security issues in the Arctic/High North).

Jessica obtained her PhD in international law from the University of Glasgow (which was sponsored by a full University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences scholarship), and holds and LLB and an LLM (public international law), both from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She also graduated from the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy.

She previously worked as a lecturer in international law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Before her time in Glasgow, she worked at the University of Amsterdam, and Utrecht University/the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS).

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