https://www.oceanexpert.org/expert/frida_armas

PhD

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Institutional Management

Policy, Law, Economics, Management

• Member of the Finance Committee of the International Seabed Authority (Kingston, Jamaica) since 2012. Previously Member of the Legal and Technical Commission from 2000 to 2011.
• Full Professor of Public International Law at the University of Buenos Aires and Austral University.
• On the list of conciliators and the list of arbitrators (for Argentina) of the dispute settlement system of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
• General Coordinator of the Argentine National Commission on the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf (COPLA) from 8 September 1997 to the present.
• Received scholarships to pursue postgraduate studies from the United Nations University (1995), The Hague Academy of International Law (1986, 1988, 1991, 1994), the Organization of American States (1989), the United Nations International Law Commission (Geneva, 1988) and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (Costa Rica, 1987). 

• Law of the Sea
• Natural resources
• Environmental Law
• Public International Law

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Ph.D. in Law (International Law Area) from the University of Buenos Aires (1992). Summa cum Laude

Author of three books and numerous book chapters and specialist articles. The most recent include: “Capítulo 33: La Zona internacional de los fondos marinos”, in González Napolitano, Silvina (ed.), Lecciones de Derecho Internacional Público, Errepar, Buenos Aires, 1° edic., 2015, pp. 671-700; “The Applicability and the Application of the evidence to the Contrary”, co-author withn Paterlini, Marcelo, in Chapter 14: Technical and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the Continental Shelf and the Area – The Third Album (Aspectos técnicos y jurídicos de los regímenes de la plataforma continental y la Zona – Tercer Tomo), Science Press, Beijing, 2015; “El límite exterior de la plataforma continental argentina – El límite más extenso y nuestra frontera con la humanidad”, in Res Diplomática – Número 1. Mayo 2015, Tercera época, Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nación (ISEN), pp. 68-97, 2015; “El límite exterior de la plataforma continental. La presentación argentina y algunos aspectos de la práctica seguida hasta la fecha”, in Gutierrez Posse, H. (Coordinadora), Derecho Internacional Público, Revista Jurídica de Buenos – 2012, Facultad de Derecho – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, 2013, Buenos Aires, pp. 217-247; “Estado del arte de las tendencias sobre legislación relativa a la minería de los Fondos Marinos - Su aplicación al Pacífico Sudeste, incluyendo propuestas para promover la adopción de medidas regionales sobre minería oceánica”, Informe Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur, Ecuador, 2012, 91 pp., in http://cpps-int.org/cpps-docs/consultorias /fondos_marinos/analisis-juridico-fondos-marinos.pdf; “Pandora’s Box” and Article 76 of UNCLOS – A decade of State practice in the outer limit of the continental shelf”, en Technical and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the Continental Shelf and the Area – T II, China Ocean Press, Beijing, 2012, 122-128; Legal Basis within the International Seabed Authority Regulatory Framework for Establishing a Network of Areas of Potential Environmental Interest”, en Memorias de la Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur, Ecuador, 2010, pp. 46-52; “The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles:  Practice to Date and Some Issues of Debate”, in Vidas, Davor, Law, Technology and Science for Oceans in Globalisation, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, 2010, pp. 477-498; “How can Life in the Deep Sea be Protected?”, in The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 24 (2009), 281-307; “Marco legal para la protección ambiental en la exploracián y explotación de las costras ricas en cobalto”, in COPLA-CARI (Ed.), Los recursos de lecho y subsuelo del mar — Aspectos jurídicos, científicos y económicos de su exploración y explotación, Buenos Aires, 2008, pp. 57-66; “Legal Framework for the Environmental Protection on Prospecting and Exploration for Cobalt-Rich Crusts”, in Mining of Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts and Polymetallic Sulphides — Technological and Economic Considerations, International Seabed Authority, Jamaica, 2007, 40-56.