LL.M. (cum laude) (Leiden University); LL.B. (first class hons.) (UWE, Bristol),  PhD Candidate at the University of New South Wales. 

Dr. Aline Jaeckel is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA recipient at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) as well as a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. Her work focuses on ocean governance, marine environmental law, international institutional law, and the regulation of deep seabed mineral mining.

Aline holds an LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University and an LLB in European and International Law from UWE, Bristol. Additionally, she has participated in the Talent Programme at the Meijers Institute of Legal Studies at Leiden University and has studied Environmental Science at the University of Sydney as well as International Relations at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Her LLM thesis focussed on the influence of the ‘common concern of humankind’ concept on biodiversity law and intellectual property rights.

She has conducted a three months internship at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and a six month internship in the Brussels Representation of the German development agency (GIZ) where she has worked on the interplay of European environmental policy and development cooperation. Her areas of interest include biodiversity law and natural resources law, especially as relating to oceans, marine and plant biodiversity, and energy. She is particularly interested in cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental problems in order to achieve sustainable development.