Dr Rozemarijn Roland Holst

Rozemarijn Roland Holst teaches and researches in the fields of international law of the sea, environmental law, and climate change law. Research themes include the interaction between law, science and new technology; global commons; international law and critical political economy; international organisations law; and international dispute settlement. She currently holds a Leverhulme Research Project Grant for the project ‘The Making and Unmaking of Global Commons by International Organisations’.

Rozemarijn advises governmental and non-governmental organisations on various aspects of the law of the sea and environmental law. She is legal counsel to the Commission of Small Island States in the advisory proceedings on climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice. Rozemarijn also serves as appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Dutch North Sea Council (Noordzeeoverleg).

Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School, Rozemarijn held lectureships in International Environmental Law at Durham University, and in Public International Law at Utrecht University. She was a visiting research fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Rozemarijn obtained her PhD (cum laude) from Utrecht University and holds an LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh, and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam.

Rozemarijn teaches on various courses in the LLM programme in Global Environment and Climate Change Law. She welcomes proposals from prospective PhD applicants in her areas of research.

Rozemarijn is book review editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law