Nilufer 
ORAL

 
Senior Fellow

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 is 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 served a member of Council of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and was Co-Chair of the Oceans Specialist Group of the World Commission of Environmental Law. She has extensive academic publications.

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Contact

nilufer@nus.edu.sg
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Education

SJD (George Washington University Law School); Diplôme d’études Approfondies (DEA); Droit International Privé Paris-I (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); JD (Santa Clara Law School); BA (Psychology) (University of California)

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 is 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 served a member of Council of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and was Co-Chair of the Oceans Specialist Group of the World Commission of Environmental Law. She has extensive academic publications.

Nilufer Oral, ‘Navigating the Oceans: Old and New Challenges for the Law of the Sea for Straits Used in International Navigation’ (2019) Ecology Law Quartery

Nilufer Oral, ‘International Law as an Adaptation Measure to Sea-level Rise and its Impacts on Islands and Offshore Features’ (2019) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

Nilufer Oral, ‘Climate Change, Oceans and Gender’ in Irini Papanicolopulu (ed.), Gender and the Law Of The Sea (Brill 2019)

Nilufer Oral, ‘Ocean Acidification: Falling Between the Legal Cracks of UNCLOS and UNFCCC’,  Ecology Law Quartery (Berkeley Law 2018)

Harry N. Scheiber, Nilufer Oral & Moon-Sang Kwon (eds), 50-Year Legacy And Emerging Issues For The Years Ahead (Brill 2018) and “Freedom of the high seas or protection of the marine environment: A false dichotomy”, Ibid.

Nilufer Oral, “Jurisdiction and Control Over Activities by Non-State Entities on the High Seas” in Robert C. Beckman, Millicent McCreath, J. Ashley Roach and Zhen Sun (eds) High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges (Edward Elgar 2018)


  • Law of the Sea, Climate Change and International Environmental Law
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