Staff profile

Rozemarijn Roland Holst is Assistant Professor in International Environmental Law at Durham Law School. Her research is situated at the intersection of international law of the sea, environmental law, and climate change law. Research themes include the interaction between law, science and new technology, international resource governance, (critical) political economy, international organisations law, and international dispute settlement.

Rozemarijn collaborates with colleagues across disciplines, including the natural sciences, and is interested in critical and interdisciplinary approaches. As a consultant, she advises on various areas of the law of the sea and environmental law. She also serves as appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Noordzeeoverleg, the cross-sectoral consultative body on Dutch North Sea policy.

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

Research supervision

Rozemarijn welcomes supervision enquiries from prospective doctoral candidates in any of her research areas.

Research groups

• Durham Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy
• Durham Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences

Authored book

• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2022). Change in the Law of the Sea: Context, Mechanisms and Practice. Brill.

Chapter in book

• Woker, Hilde J., Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. & Harden-Davies, Harriet (2023). New Technology and the Protection of the Marine Environment. In Research Handbook on International Marine Environmental Law. Rayfuse, R., Jaeckel, A. & Klein, N. Edward Elgar. 409-427.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2023). Restoration Activities in the Marine Environment: Balancing Diverging Perceptions of ‘Risk’. In The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans: Designing Legal Solutions. Platjouw, Froukje Maria & Pozdnakova, Alla Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 95-107.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2022). The climate-oceans nexus: Oceans in the climate regime, climate in the oceans regime. In Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change. Harris, Paul G. Routledge. 28-38.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2021). Community Interests and Sovereignty: On Consonance and Dissonance in the Law of the Sea. In Protecting Community Interests through International Law. Zyberi, Gentian Intersentia. 99-125.
• Trevisanut, Seline, Giannopoulos, Nikolaos & Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2020). Conclusion: Proposing a Three-Fold Approach to Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods. Trevisanut, Seline, Giannopoulos, Nikolaos & Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. Brill. 222-234.
• Trevisanut, Seline, Giannopoulos, Nikolaos & Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2020). Introduction: Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance. In Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods. Trevisanut, Seline, Giannopoulos, Nikolaos & Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. Brill. 1-21.

Edited book

• Trevisanut, Seline, Giannopoulos, Nikolaos & Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. (2020). Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, Theories and Methods. Publications on Ocean Development. Brill.

Journal Article

• Spencer, Matthew, Culhane, Fiona, Chong, Fiona,, Powell, Megan O., Roland Holst, Rozemarijn J. & Helm, Rebecca (2023). Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: the effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems. PeerJ 11: 15021.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn 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.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn 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 and International Environmental Law
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn 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.
• Roland Holst, Rozemarijn 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.