Niki Aloupi
Niki ALOUPI has been Professor of Public International Law at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas since September 2018. She is currently a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority (2023-2027). From her agrégation in 2012 up to 2018 she was Professor at the University of Strasbourg. She has taught as a visitor at the Universities of Sciences Po Paris, Roma Sapienza, Jena, Alabama, Padova, Bordeaux, Le Mans, Galatasaray, at the International Institute of Human Rights and the Academy of the Sea of Monaco. In January 2025, she has delivered at The Hague Academy of International Law a special course on “Human persons and the Law of the Sea”. Niki Aloupi has also been a judge representative of the UNHCR at the French National Court of Asylum Law (CNDA) from 2013 to 2023.
Author of numerous publications relating to the Law of the Sea, to Public International Law and Systems Reports, she teaches, other than the Law of the Sea, Public International Law, Law of International Spaces, International Organizations Law, Asylum Law and General Principles of International Economic Law. She has co-coordinated, with Gabriele Goettche-Wanli, the White Paper on the Ocean for the International Law Association’s 150 years celebration. Her book “The nationality of vessels” has received the award “Choucri Cardahi” of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 2021.
Niki Aloupi is the Director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales (IHEI) and of the Master’s degree in International Administration, as well as the codirector of the Environmental Studies Division (Pôle Assas Etudes Environnementales) at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas. She is the director of the quarterly column on “International Jurisprudence” of the Revue Générale de Droit International Public, of which she is also a member of the Editorial Board. She is also the codirector of the column “French Practice of Public International Law” of the Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales (L’année des relations internationales), as well as member of the Editorial Boards of the French Journal of Legal Policy and of the American Yearbook of International Law. She is deputy treasurer and a member of the Board of the French Society for International Law (SFDI). From 2011 to 2021, she has been serving as a secretary-editor of the Institute of International Law.