Dr. Frida ARMAS-PFIRTER

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Position Professor
Institution Universidad Austral, International Law Department [view]
Expertise
  • Law of the Sea
  • Natural resources

  • Environmental Law
  • Public International Law
Responsibilities
  • 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). 
Nationality Argentina
Email
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Tel +54 911 4972 1567
Address Juan de Garay 125
C1063ABB Buenos Aires

Argentina
Notes 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.

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