Bilde av van der Marel, Eva R
Bilde av van der Marel, Eva R
Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea eva.v.marel@uit.no +4777645568 You can find me here

Eva R van der Marel


Associate Professor

Job description

Eva is employed as associate professor in law at UiT (fullltime), with primary teaching duties on the LLM in the law of the sea and the Joint Nordic Master Programme in Environmental Law (NOMPEL), as well as the new interdisciplinary Ocean leadership masters. Eva also continues to be affiliated as parttime researcher at the University of Oxford, working on the Oxford Martin School's "Future of Plastics" project, which examines how to best move towards a more sustainable plastics economy. Her research interests are international environmental law and the law of the sea, and fisheries in particular.

Eva obtained her PhD in law from UiT (January 2020), where she previously worked at the former K. G. Jebsen Centre (now, Norwegian Centre) for the Law of the Sea. Following this, she joined the European Commission (DG MARE) in Brussels, working on various law of the sea and fisheries related matters, and in particular, the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO in Geneva, and the EU Arctic policy. She left this position to do a postdoc at the Univeristy of Oxford, before returning to Tromsø in January 2023 as associate professor.

Eva also holds an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy from UCL, a maitrise in European law from the University of Rennes 1, and an LLB (English and French law) from Exeter University.

Eva enjoys life above and below water, and this is reflected in both her research and general interests, which include windsurfing, climbing, trail running, back-country skiing, and diving in plastic-free oceans.


  • Fernando Vidal, Eva Romee van der Marel, Ryan W. F. Kerr, Caitlin McElroy, Nadia Schroeder, Celia Mitchell et al.:
    Designing a circular carbon and plastics economy for a sustainable future
    Nature 2024 DOI
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    Trading Plastic Waste in a Global Economy: Soundly Regulated by the Basel Convention?
    Journal of environmental law 2022
  • Richard Barnes, James Harrison, Eva van der Marel, Mihail Vatsov :
    Introduction: External aspects of the European Union common fisheries policy
    The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 2020 DOI
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    Problems and Progress in Combating IUU Fishing
    Hart Publishing Ltd 2019
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Richard Caddell, Elise Johansen :
    Innovating for change in global fisheries governance: an introduction
    Marine Policy 2017 DOI
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Angus Johnston :
    Ad Lucem? Interpreting the New EU Energy Provision, and in particular the Meaning of Article 194(2) TFEU
    Edward Elgar Publishing 2017
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    An Opaque Blacklist: the Lack of Transparency in Identifying Non Cooperating Countries under the EU IUU Regulation
    Juris Publishing 2017
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Angus Johnston :
    How Binding are the EU’s ‘Binding’ Renewables Targets?
    Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2016 DOI
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    A Short Critique of the EU IUU Regulation
    Dokdo Research Journal 2015
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Angus Johnston :
    Ad Lucem? Interpreting the New EU Energy Provision, and in particular the Meaning of Article 194(2) TFEU
    European Environmental Law Review 2013
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    Prevention of Marine Plastic Pollution
    2023
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    RESOLVED: International Law is the Foundation for the Solution to Climate Change – An Application to Plastic Waste Pollution
    2023
  • Eva R van der Marel, Catherine Redgwell :
    Plastics regulation and sustainable production and consumption: A concept whose time has come?
    2022
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    International Fisheries Law
    2022
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    IUU Fishing Vessel Listing Cooperation among RFMOs
    2022
  • Eva R van der Marel :
    Towards a new treaty on plastic pollution: equitable burden sharing?
    2022
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    IUU Fishing and the EU IUU regulation: what are the implications of blacklisting vessels and non-EU countries?
    2017
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Elise Johansen, Richard Caddell :
    Special Section on Innovating for Change in Global Fisheries Governance
    Marine Policy 2017
  • Nieuwenhuis Evert, Eva Romée van der Marel :
    Illegale visserij is een gigantisch probleem. Zo ga je het (niet) tegen.
    12. May 2017 FULLTEKST
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    Introduction and conclusion to the workshop
    2016 FULLTEKST
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    The due diligence obligations of the flag state with respect to its fishing vessels and the environment (post on the JCLOS blog)
    2016 FULLTEKST
  • Eva Romée van der Marel :
    ITLOS issues its Advisory Opinion on IUU Fishing (post on the JCLOS blog)
    2015 FULLTEKST
  • Eva Romée van der Marel, Richard Macrory, Chiara Armeni, Chris Clarke, Sarah Docherty, Ben Milligan et al.:
    SCCS CO2-EOR JIP, Legal Status of CO2 – Enhanced Oil Recovery
    2013 FULLTEKST

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