Nilufer 
ORAL

 
Senior Fellow

Nilufer Oral is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission and co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level rise in relation to international law. She served as a legal advisor to the Turkish Foreign Ministry for law of the sea and as a climate change negotiator. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law; has lectured at the Centre for International Law (NUS); the UN Regional Law Courses for International Law, and at the Rhodes Academy for the Law of the Sea.

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Contact

nilufer@nus.edu.sg
TB-09-01

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 a member of the United Nations International Law Commission and co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level rise in relation to international law. She served as a legal advisor to the Turkish Foreign Ministry for law of the sea and as a climate change negotiator. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law; has lectured at the Centre for International Law (NUS); the UN Regional Law Courses for International Law, and at the Rhodes Academy for the Law of the Sea.
Dr. Oral served on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Council (2012-2016); was Co-chair of the IUCN Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs (2006-2018); and Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014-2017).

Dr. Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); a member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill). She has published numerous articles and edited several books, and has spoken at numerous international conferences.

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