Alexander Lott
Job description
Dr. Alexander Lott works as a research professor (forsker I) at the UiT's Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea. His research interests include the law of the sea, environmental law, human rights, administrative law, international security law, and the law of naval warfare. Alexander is the author of books “Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea” (Brill, 2022), “The Estonian Straits” (Brill, 2018), and the editor and co-author of “Maritime Security Law in Hybrid Warfare” (Brill, 2024).
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Publikasjoner utenom Cristin
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Research interests
Alexander's research interests cross traditional boundaries between the law of the sea, navigational regimes, administrative law, environmental law, human rights, law of naval warfare, and international security law.
Teaching
Alexander has been teaching international law of the sea to master's students since 2017. In addition, he has been responsible for various bachelor's, master's, and doctoral courses in administrative law and academic writing at the University of Tartu. He is supervising and censoring dissertations both in master's and doctoral programs (dozens at the University of Tartu, but also the NCLOS at UiT).
Member of research group
CV
Career
01.05.2025-...: Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea; University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Research professor (1183)
01.04.2022–30.04.2025: Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea; University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Senior Researcher (1109)/Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow
06.11.2023–19.11.2023: US Naval War College, Visiting Research Scholar
01.04.2020–31.03.2022: Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea; University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Postdoctoral fellow (1352)
06.07.2020–31.01.2026: University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Law, Lecturer in Administrative Law (0.10)
01.05.2019–05.07.2020: University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Law, Lecturer in Administrative Law (1.00)
21.08.2018–30.04.2019: Estonian Academy of Security Sciences: Lecturer of law at the Institute of Internal Security (1.00)
01.02.2018–30.04.2019: University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Law Lecturer in Administrative Law (0.50)
21.01.2017– 25.06.2018: Tallinn Circuit Court, Law clerk at the administrative law chamber (1.00)
01.03.2017–31.01.2018: University of Tartu, Adjunct lecturer at the School of Law's Tallinn Office (1.00)
01.04.2016–20.01.2017: Supreme Court of Estonia, Legal Adviser at the administrative law chamber (1.00)
01.10.2014–31.03.2016: Supreme Court of Estonia, Legal adviser at the constitutional review chamber (1.00)
03.03.2014–30.09.2014: Supreme Court of Estonia, Legal adviser at the administrative law chamber (1.00)
20.12.2011–28.02.2014: Ministry of Justice, Legal adviser at the legislative policy department (1.00)
01.07.2011–30.09.2011: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Legal intern (1.00)
01.06.2007–01.05.2008: Estonian Defense Forces, Military service (1.00)
Academic degrees
Alexander Lott, Doctor's Degree, 2017, (sup) Lauri Mälksoo; Alex G. Oude Elferink; Heiki Lindpere, The Estonian Straits: Exceptions to the Strait Regime of Innocent or Transit Passage, University of Tartu
Education
2020–2022: Postdoctoral fellowship, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (Tromsø)
2013–2017: PhD (law), University of Tartu
2012–2012: Diploma, Venice Academy of Human Rights (EIUC)
2010–2011: LLM (international and European law), Utrecht University
2006–2010: BA (law), University of Tartu