Energy at Sea

Vasco Becker-Weinberg

Faculty of Law of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Dr. iur. (Hamburg), LL.M (Lisbon), is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and a qualified lawyer at the Portuguese Bar Association. He is the co-coordinator of the LL.M program on “Law and Sea-Economy” and is undertaking post-doctoral studies in public international law at NOVA. He is also a member of CEDIS – Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade, where he is coordinating a research project on human trafficking. He was previously legal advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of the Sea (2013-2015) and a full-time scholar at the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg (2008-2012).

Vasco Becker-Weinberg occasionally lectures in several Portuguese and foreign universities and has undertaken extensive research at prominent academic institutions. He has written several works in public international law and the law of the sea and is the author of Joint Development of Offshore Hydrocarbon Deposits in the Law of the Sea (Springer Verlag: 2014), “Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and shipping interdiction” (with Guglielmo Verdirame, OUP: 2015), and “Portugal's legal regime on marine spatial planning and management of the national maritime space” (Marine Policy vol. 61: 2015).

As legal advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of the Sea, Vasco Becker-Weinberg took part in the preparation of the Portuguese legal regime on marine spatial planning and management of the national maritime space.