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SSH nominates internationally recognised legal researcher and judge in international law for an honorary doctorate at AAU

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SSH nominates internationally recognised legal researcher and judge in international law for an honorary doctorate at AAU

Lagt online: 27.03.2025

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities nominates Professor Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, for an honorary doctorate at AAU.

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SSH nominates internationally recognised legal researcher and judge in international law for an honorary doctorate at AAU

Lagt online: 27.03.2025

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities nominates Professor Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, for an honorary doctorate at AAU.

By Marianne Fuglsang Welling Farsinsen, AAU Communication and Public Affairs

Professor Liesbeth Lijnzaad is a prominent and internationally highly recognized researcher, judge in international law - and especially in the law of the sea - and former diplomat. Liesbeth Lijnzaad has an impressive career with many significant positions behind her and currently holds the role of professor at Maastricht University, while she has been a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg since 2017, where she has been chair of the Chamber for Marine Environment Disputes since October 2023.

Liesbeth Lijnzaad masters combining academic professionalism of the highest degree with the application of international law in practice in many areas, including not only the Law of the Sea, but also the regulation of armed conflicts/international humanitarian law, human rights and women's rights.

For many years, she has also served as a diplomat in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as Deputy Head of the International Law Division (1999-2006) and Legal Advisor and Head of the International Law Department (2006-2017).

Through her work, she has established professional connections all over the world and not least to Denmark, especially to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Department of Law at Aalborg University.

Birgit Feldtmann, professor at the Department of Law, AAU, says:

"Liesbeth Lijnzaad has through an impressive career uniquely combined the practice of international law as a diplomat with her work as a legal researcher and international judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). She has consistently contributed to the development of ​international law and influenced the world legal order," says Birgit Feldtmann and continues:

Our collaboration with Professor Liesbeth Lijnzaad formally started in 2019 with the research project "Policing at Sea (PolSEA)", to which Liesbeth has contributed and she supports our scientific work in the field of Law of the Sea. She is a role model for us and an outstanding figure in the international legal arena, and we are therefore very proud that she has been awarded an honorary doctorate at AAU.

Birgit Feldtmann, professor at the Department of Law, AAU

The appointment of Professor Liesbeth Lijnzaad as an honorary doctor at AAU will take place at the university's annual celebration on 4 April 2025.

 

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