Davor Vidas is Research Professor in International Law and Director of the Law of the Sea Programme at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. He is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and Chair of the Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise at the International Law Association. During the course of the past 25 years, he served as Principal Investigator for several major research projects on international law and interdisciplinary approaches to ocean issues. Professor Vidas is the author or editor of ten books on international law, and also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal monograph series Brill Research Perspectives on the Law of the Sea and of a popular-science book series Anthropocene.