Irini Papanicolopulu
Prof. Irini Papanicolopolou is British Academy Global Professor of International Law at SOAS University of London, where she conducts research and teaches in international law and its different branches. She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Milano, and has previously worked at the University of Oxford, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is a Visiting Professor at Catòlica University (Lisbon, Portugal) and St. Gallen University (Switzerland). Irini is the author of two monographs, including International Law and the Protection of People at Sea (OUP 2018), has authored numerous articles and book chapters and has edited several collective volumes, including the award-winning Gender and the Law of the Sea (Brill 2019) and the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Human Rights at Sea (OUP 2026). Irini is the Chair of the ILA Committee on Protection of People at Sea, Vice-Chair of COST Action Blue Rights and a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea of the European Society of International Law. She has advised states, international organisations, civil society organisations and business actors on issues of international law, the law of the sea, human rights law and environmental law.