Staff profile
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| Assistant Professor in International Environmental Law in the Durham Law School |
Biography
Rozemarijn Roland Holst is Assistant Professor in International Environmental Law at Durham Law School, and co-director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy. She researches and teaches in the fields of international law of the sea, environmental law, and climate change law. Research themes include the interaction between law, science and new technology; global commons; international law and critical political economy; international organisations law; and international dispute settlement.
Rozemarijn advises governmental and non-governmental organisations on various aspects of the law of the sea and environmental law. She is legal counsel to the Commission of Small Island States in the advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Rozemarijn also serves as appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Dutch North Sea Council (Noordzeeoverleg), in which the main governmental, non-governmental, and sectoral stakeholders in Dutch North Sea policy are represented.
Prior to joining Durham, Rozemarijn was Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University, and a senior research fellow of the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law. She was a visiting research fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Rozemarijn obtained her PhD (cum laude) from Utrecht University, and holds an LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam.
Rozemarijn is book review editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
Current projects
- Project lead on The Making and Unmaking of Global Commons by International Organisations, funded by a Leverhulme Project Grant (2024-2027)
- Co-investigator on the JusTN0W innitiative: Just Transitions to a Net-Zero World, funded by the Durham Strategic Research Fund
Research supervision
Rozemarijn welcomes supervision enquiries from prospective doctoral candidates in any of her research areas.
Research groups
Publications
Authored book
Chapter in book
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’. In F. M. Platjouw, & A. Pozdnakova (Eds.), The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans: Designing Legal Solutions (95-107). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009253741.012
- Woker, H. J., Roland Holst, R. J., & Harden-Davies, H. (2023). New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment. In R. Rayfuse, A. Jaeckel, & N. Klein (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law (409-427). (Second Edition). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909081.00028
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2022). The climate-oceans nexus: Oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime. In P. G. Harris (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change (28-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315149745
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2021). Community Interests and Sovereignty: On Consonance and Dissonance in the Law of the Sea. In G. Zyberi (Ed.), Protecting Community Interests through International Law (99-125). Intersentia
- Trevisanut, S., Giannopoulos, N., & Roland Holst, R. J. (2020). Conclusion: Proposing a Three-Fold Approach to Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In S. Trevisanut, N. Giannopoulos, & R. J. Roland Holst (Eds.), Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods (222-234). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422100_009
- Trevisanut, S., Giannopoulos, N., & Roland Holst, R. J. (2020). Introduction: Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In S. Trevisanut, N. Giannopoulos, & R. J. Roland Holst (Eds.), Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods (1-21). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422100_002
Edited book
Journal Article
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Exploiting the deep seabed for the benefit of humankind: A universal ideology for sustainable resource development or a false necessity?. Leiden Journal of International Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/s092215652300064x
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Taking the Current When it Serves: Prospects and Challenges for an ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Oceans and Climate Change. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 32(2), 217-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12481
- Spencer, M., Culhane, F., Chong, F., Powell, M. O., Roland Holst, R. J., & Helm, R. (2023). Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems. PeerJ – the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences, 11, Article 15021. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15021
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2023). Reflections on the Governance Function of Compulsory Dispute Settlement in the Legal Order for the Ocean. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 38(2), 283-301. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10122
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2019). The Netherlands: The 2018 Agreement between The Ocean Cleanup and the Netherlands. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 34(2), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-13421090
- Roland Holst, R. J. (2017). Law of the Sea: UNCLOS as a Living Treaty, edited by Jill Barrett and Richard Barnes, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2016, 489 pp, £40 pb, ISBN 9781905221523. Transnational Environmental Law, 6(2), 382-385. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102517000176