Guest Lectures on Polar Law by Assist. Prof. Chen Yitong (Ocean University of China)

We are pleased to inform that this week we are hosting a visiting lecturer from Ocean University of China.

Our guest will give lectures on Polar Law:

• 13 June, 2023, 5:00 PM on MS Teams platform

All members of our Faculty interested in attending the lecture are asked to contact Prof. Edvardas Juchnevicius to obtain the link to the lecture.

Ms. Chen Yitong is an Associate Professor of Law School & Polar Research Center, Ocean University of China. She specializes in polar law, law of the sea, and climate change law. She was a visiting scholar (2011-2012) of Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, United States, and member of Board of Governors of UArctic (2014-2017). She has published over twenty articles and book chapters in Chinese and English, published one academic monograph on Arctic Law, and frequently participated in international and mainland China academic conferences. She chaired ten research projects funded by national, provincial, and ministerial levels in polar law and law of the sea in the past ten years. She frequently participated as an adviser in China’s Delegation to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in recent three years.