Bilde av De Lucia, Vito
Bilde av De Lucia, Vito
Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea vito.delucia@uit.no +4777620863

Vito De Lucia


Full Professor

Job description

I am Full Professor of (International) Law. I teach courses on International Environmental Law, Law of the Sea, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Legal Methods at bachelor, master and PhD level.


  • Vito De Lucia :
    Anthropocentrism and International Environmental Law
    Routledge 2023
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Regime Interaction through Concepts. The BBNJ process as a critical juncture in the relation between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Law of the Sea
    Routledge 2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Ocean Commons and an "Ethological" Nomos of the Sea
    Brill|Nijhoff 2022 DOI
  • Alex Oude Elferink, Vito De Lucia, Lan Nguyen :
    Areas beyond National Jurisdiction - Looking at and beyond the bbnj Process
    Brill|Nijhoff 2022 DOI
  • Lan Nguyen, Alex Oude Elferink, Vito De Lucia :
    The Legal Regime of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction Viewed through the Lenses of Power, Knowledge, Justice and Space
    Brill|Nijhoff 2022 DOI
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Oceanic Heterolegalities? Ocean Commons and the Heterotopias of Sovereign Legality
    Routledge 2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Oceanic Dumping of Space Objects and the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
    Eleven International Publishing 2021
  • Vito De Lucia :
    The Question of the Common Heritage of Mankind and the Negotiations towards a Global Treaty on Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: No End in Sight?
    McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL) 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Rethinking the Encounter Between Law and Nature in the Anthropocene: From Biopolitical Sovereignty to Wonder
    Law and Critique 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Thinking Law, Ecology and the Commons
    Punctum Books 2020
  • Vito De Lucia, Philipp Peter Nickels :
    Reflecting on the Role of the Arctic Council vis-à-vis a Future International Legally Binding Instrument on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
    Arctic Review on Law and Politics 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Vito De Lucia, Ingrid Solstad Andreassen :
    Climate Litigation in Norway. A Preliminary Assessment
    DPCE Online 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Oceans Commons, Law of the Sea and Rights for the Sea
    Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Vito De Lucia, Alex Oude Elferink, Lan Nguyen :
    International Law and Marine Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. Reflections on Justice, Space, Knowledge and Power
    Brill|Nijhoff 2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Cumulative Impacts and/in the BBNJ Agreement
    2024
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Beyond Borders: Navigating the High Seas and Arctic Governance
    30. January 2024
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Area Based Management Tools/Marine Protected Areas in the Arctic
    2024
  • Vito De Lucia :
    A Global Treaty for a Global Arctic?
    2024
  • Vito De Lucia :
    The Arctic as a Sanctuary: Anamnesis of the Sanctification of Space
    2024
  • Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen, Vito De Lucia :
    Mot en rettslig bindende avtale om biologisk mangfold utenfor nasjonal jurisdiksjon?
    Rett24.no 2023 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Reflections on General Principles and Approaches in the new BBNJ Agreement
    2023
  • Paul Dodd, Agneta Fransson, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Anne Britt Sandø, Maaike Knol-Kauffman, Jack Christopher Landy et al.:
    Sustainable development of the Arctic Ocean
    Fram Forum 2023 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Introduction to Round Table on Sustainability, Green Transition and Climate Change: A history of the Concept of Sustainable Development
    2023
  • Vito De Lucia :
    The Arctic as a Sanctuary: Anamnesis of a Concept
    2023
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Reflections on Article 7 of the BBNJ Agreement
    2023
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Operationalizing the Ecosystem Approach in the BBNJ Treaty
    NCLOS Blog 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Potential implications of the future BBNJ Treaty for existing instruments, frameworks and bodies: the case of the Arctic Council
    2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    An overview of the potential implications of the future BBNJ Treaty for existing instruments, bodies and institutions - The case of NAMMCO
    2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Towards a New Global Treaty on Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ): Status and Expectations.
    2022
  • Jan Jakub Solski, Vito De Lucia :
    Introduction to "Sustainable governance of the Arctic in the Post-Post-Cold War World: Drivers and future scenarios for ecosystem-based management of the Arctic Ocean"
    2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    This is the space graveyard where the International Space Station will be buried
    06. February 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Splashing down the International Space Station in the Pacific Ocean: Safe Disposal or Trashing the Ocean Commons?
    EJIL:Talk! 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Why is the ISS being retired and what will happen to it?
    21. February 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Interview on Critical Legal Theory for Juss og Jass Podcast program
    13. June 2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Spazzatura Spaziale e Cimiteri Spaziali: La Libertà degli Stati è Sostenibile?
    2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Problematizing Rights of Nature
    2022
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Law, Nature, Biopolitics and Wonder
    2021
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Biodiversity Governance of the Central Arctic Ocean
    Fram Forum 2021 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    The Birth of Sovereignty: Immunitas, Dominium and the Franciscan subject
    2021
  • Øyvind Ravna, Gunnar Ketil Eriksen, Ande Somby, Kristina Labba, Vito De Lucia, Margherita Paola Poto :
    FeFo bør ikke rope på dommerklubba
    Sagat 26. October 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Arctic Biodiversity Governance and the future BBNJ Agreement
    2020
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Law, Ecocide and Biopolitics in light of the COVID pandemic
    2020
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Invited presentation "I diritti della Natura: dall’America Latina verso l’Unione Europea?"
    2020
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Potential Implications of a New Global Treaty on Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction for Ecosystem Governance in the Arctic High Seas
    2020
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Negotiating Biodiversity Conservation in the High Seas: An ecosystem approach
  • Vito De Lucia :
    A Very Quick Look at the Revised Draft Text of the new Agreement on Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
    EJIL:Talk! 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Squaring the Oceanic Circle? On Regional Approaches to the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
    NCLOS Blog 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Vito De Lucia :
    The New Agreement on Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
    2020
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Towards Ecosystem-Based Governance of the High Seas
  • Vito De Lucia :
    Ecosystem Governance in the Arctic
    2019

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    Publications outside Cristin

    Latest Publications: 

     - De Lucia, V. Regime Interaction through Concepts. The BBNJ process as a critical juncture in the relation between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on the Law of the Sea, in Matz-Luck, N., Jensen Ø and Johansen E. (eds) The Law of the Sea. Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes, Routledge 2022 

     - De Lucia, V. Oceanic Heterolegalities? Ocean Commons and the Heterotopias of Sovereign Legality in I. Braverman (ed) Laws of the Sea. Interdisciplinary Currents, Routledge 2022

     - BOOK: V. De Lucia, A. Oude Elferink and L. Nguyen, «International Law and Marine Areas beyond National Jurisdiction Reflections on Justice, Space, Knowledge and Power», BRILL 2022 https://brill.com/view/title/61595?language=en

    - De Lucia, V. “Rethinking the Encounter between Law and Nature in the Anthropocene. From Biopolitical Sovereignty to Wonder”, 31:3 Law and Critique, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-020-09281-9


    Research interests

    My most immediate research interests are located at the intersection of critical theory, law and ecology, with particular focus on international environmental law and ecosystem governance. I am particularly interested in genealogy as a method of critical legal analysis, and in biopolitics as a theoretical register for reading environmental law.

    Current research focuses on 1) ocean commons, both at the theoretical level and in relation the new treaty on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and on the interaction between space law and law of the sea 2) on critical histories of sovereignty and (international) legal modernity more broadly  3) on critical legal ocean studies, with increasing focus on critical legal geography.

    I am currently Principal Investigator for a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council called "Future Arctic Law and Governance (FALG)".


    I am also one of the Principal Investigators in the NCLOS AURORA Center, where I lead the research on Ocean Commons

    I also particiopate, in various capacites, to other projects: as Work Package leader (FRAM Center project SUDARCO and Norwegian Research Council project DOGA), and as project member (FRAM Center project CLEAN, and EU Horizon project B-USEFUL)

    In 2015 I have been awarded the Annual Richard Macrory Prize for best article in the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press) for 2015. In 2019 I have been awarded an Honorary Mention from the same prize.

    Teaching

    I am currently course convener for JUR 3622 "International Environmental Law and Climate Change in the Arctic", an elective course available to 5th year students enrolled in the master of law program, and to excahnge students.

    I also teach comparative law in the integrated master program in Law, as well as the LLM course JUR 3052 "Protection of Marine Biodiversity by International Law" and two PhD level courses, JUR 8002 "Jurisprudence" and JUR 8003 "Legal Methods"

    I am currently (co-)supervise 4 PhD projects, respectivley on the ecosystem approach to fisheries, on ocean acidification as a site of regime interactions, on rethinking sovereignty through indigenous narratives and on the principle of the common heritage of makind revisited from a TWAIL perspective