Nicholas A. Ioannides</a> holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol. He was also a Nippon Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017-2018). In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Daniel Vignes’ Prize by the International Association of the Law of the Sea for his article on hydrocarbon activities in undelimited maritime areas published in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2019). His monograph entitled ‘Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea’ has been published by Routledge." />

Nicholas A. Ioannides

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Nicholas A. Ioannides holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol. He was also a Nippon Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017-2018). In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Daniel Vignes’ Prize by the International Association of the Law of the Sea for his article on hydrocarbon activities in undelimited maritime areas published in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2019). His monograph entitled ‘Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea’ has been published by Routledge.

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