New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Vonintsoa Rafaly
Vonintsoa Rafaly is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on rethinking ocean governance to better address global environmental issues, through concepts like common interest, common concerns, international solidarity and global/environmental justice. She is working mainly on the interaction between the law of the sea, environmental law and climate change toward environmental stewardship of the ocean, both at the normative and institutional levels.
Her current research at the Ocean Infrastructure Research Group is based on a theory driven research on the environmental consequences of shipping, based on the concept and theory of infrastructures, including conducting empirical research on marine safety institutions, vulnerable states and regions, and shipping industry.
She is a member of Centre de Droit Maritime et Océanique (Nantes, France), the Centre for Sea and Society (Gothenburg, Sweden) and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
She is a member of the editorial team of the Law of the Sea: Contemporary Norms and Practice in Africa Project, South African Research Chair in the Law of the Sea and Development in Africa (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa).
Vonintsoa Rafaly will join MOBILE in February 2024.