Nilufer Oral is Director of the Centre of International Law at the National University of Singapore. She is a member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) and served as Chairperson of the 74th session of the ILC. She is a Co-chair of the ILC Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. She was elected as a Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law and is an associate member of the Institut de Droit International. She was a legal advisor and climate change negotiator for Turkish MFA (2009-2016). She is currently a Member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). She is the Series Editor for the International Straits of the World (Brill). She has published on different topics related to the law of the sea, climate change, and environmental law.
Sample of recent publications
"UNCLOS and Sea Level Rise", 149 Marine Policy (March 2023)
"International Procedure between Past and Future-Procedural Development in Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement in 2021", The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 2022 (co-authored with Massimo Lando)
"Jurisdictional challenges and institutional novelties–Procedural developments in law of the sea dispute settlement in 2020" (co-authored with Massimo F. Lando) The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 2021
"Ukraine v. The Russian Federation: Navigating Conflict over Sovereignty under UNCLOS," 97 International Law Studies 478 (2021)
"Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of IUU Fishing under International Law", International Community Law Review 22 (2020) 368–376
"The International Law Commission and the Progressive Development and Codification of Principles of International Environmental Law", 13 Florida International University Law Rev (2019)
The Sofia Ministerial Declaration on Black Sea Fisheries and Aquaculture, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2019) 801-822 (Co-authored with Nicola Ferri)
"Navigating the Oceans: Old and New Challenges for the Law of the Sea for Straits Used in International Navigation", 37 Berkeley Journal of International Law 317/46 Ecology Law Quarterly 163 (2019)
"International law and adaptation to sea-level rise and its impacts on islands and offshore features", International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2019) 415-439
"Ocean Acidification: Falling Between the Legal Cracks of UNCLOS and UNFCCC", 45 Ecology Law Quarterly (2018) 9-30 Global Commons and the Common Heritage of Mankind in Handbook of Seabed Mining & The Law of the Sea, Virginie Tassin Campanella (Ed), (Routledge, 2023)
The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Law of the Sea, in Carlos Esposito and Kate Parlett (Eds), Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice Cambridge University Press 2023)
The protection of the marine environment: An overview of the UNEP Regional Sea Programme for the Mediterranean in Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (2d) Rosemary Rayfuse, Aline Jaeckel, Natalie Klein and Ben Milligan (eds) Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
A 50-year reflection on global ocean governance for protection of the marine environment in Simone Borg (Ed), A Research Handbook on Ocean Governance Law (Edward Elgar 2022)