CIL is pleased to welcome Mr Jan Jakub Solski as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Law from December 2016 to July 2017.

Jan Jakub Solski is a PhD Research Fellow at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway. Jan holds academic degrees from universities in Poland and Norway, including a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees in Russian and English Philology from the the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan; a Master’s degree in Law from the European School of Law and Administration in Warsaw; a Master of Laws in the Law of the Sea from University in Tromsø. Jan’s research includes the law of the sea, the legal regime of the Arctic, Russia and Russian law, the Northern Sea Route. In his research for the PhD, Jan focuses on the practice of Russia in regulating navigation on the Northern Sea Route. The working title of his PhD thesis is “Russian coastal state jurisdiction over commercial vessels navigating the Northern Sea Route”.