Ángeles Jiménez García-Carriazo

Ángeles Jiménez García-Carriazo holds a Ph.D. in Law, specializing in the Law of the Sea and Public International Law, from the Universidad de Jaén, where she defended her dissertation on “The extension of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – with special reference to Spain” (2017). She also earned an LL.M. in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a degree in Law and International Relations from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE). Ángeles has a rich international background, including studies in Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Taiwan, as well as professional experience in the law firm Latham and Watkins, and was a EU and Competition Lawyer at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo in Madrid.

She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Cádiz (Spain), where she leads various academic and policy-oriented initiatives on ocean governance and human rights at sea.

Between 2018 and 2023, she was the Nippon Foundation Lecturer on Global Ocean Governance at the International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), and specialises in the law of the sea with a particular focus on the extension of the continental shelf, maritime boundary delimitation, and the common heritage of mankind. She also serves as Legal Advisor to the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and is a member of the Spanish Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).

She has conducted research at institutions such as the University of Jaen (Spain), the University of Nantes (France), and the National Taiwan Ocean University. She is the Coordinator of the Observatory for Migration and Human Rights of the European University of the Seas Alliance (SEA-EU). Her scholarly output includes a monograph, edited volumes, numerous book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles addressing key areas of the law of the sea: the continental shelf, maritime boundary delimitation, underwater cultural heritage, peaceful settlement of disputes, and human rights at sea.

See her article on Ceuta-Melilla and maritime grey zones: https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/paetsei/article/view/11453

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