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Profile
Dita Liliansa is a Research Fellow at the Ocean Law and Policy Programme of the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore (NUS), where she has been based since 2018. She is also a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on the Protection of People at Sea, nominated by ILA Singapore.
Her current research focuses on human rights at sea, the law of naval warfare, and emerging maritime security issues. She has published widely on ASEAN, fisheries, the marine environment, passage regimes, and Indonesia’s foreign policy. In 2021, her article in the Asian Journal of International Law won Second Prize in the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) Junior Scholar Award.
Beyond research, she regularly teaches in CIL’s capacity-building programmes and delivers guest lectures at law schools in Singapore, Indonesia, and India.
Before joining CIL, she was a researcher and lecturer in Indonesia and did short stints at law firms in Jakarta and Bangkok. She holds a law degree (LLB) from the University of Indonesia and a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Washington, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, from 2017 to 2018.
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Research Interests
- Law of the sea
- Treaty interpretation
- Law of naval warfare
- Maritime security
- Marine environmental law
- ASEAN law and policy
- Regime interaction
- International law-making
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Selected Publications
Dita Liliansa (2023). A Quest for Meaning: Interpretation of Article 73(3) of UNCLOS by Indonesian Supreme Court. Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, 8(1).
Dita Liliansa (2023). “Could Indonesia legally stop transit by nuclear-powered AUKUS subs?” in The Lowy Institute The Interpreter, available at https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/could-indonesia-legally-stop-transit-nuclear-powered-aukus-subs.
Dita Liliansa (2023). “Navigating the Seas of Soft Law in the Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention” in CIL Dialogues, available at https://cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/navigating-the-seas-of-soft-law-in-the-implementation-of-the-law-of-the-sea-convention/.
Dita Liliansa (2023). “Sea Level Rise May Threaten Indonesia’s Status as an Archipelagic Country” in The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/sea-level-rise-may-threaten-indonesias-status-as-an-archipelagic-country-195217#:~:text=Last%20year%2C%20Indonesia’s%20National%20Research,due%20to%20rising%20sea%20levels.
Dita Liliansa (2022). “Fishing and Fishing-Related Activities: A Deadly Mutualism in the IUU Fishing Chain” in AsianSIL Voices, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2022/10/26/fishing-and-fishing-related-activities-a-deadly-mutualism-in-the-iuu-fishing-chain/.
Dita Liliansa (2022). Sea Turtles Protection in Southeast Asia: Linkages and Role of Soft Law Instruments in the Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 37(4).
Dita Liliansa (2022). “Independent and Active Foreign Policy in the Pursuit of an Archipelagic State” in Evan A. Laksmana and Lina A. Alexandra (eds), Hatta and Independent and Active Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect (Jakarta: CSIS Indonesia, 2022).
Dita Liliansa (2021). “ASEAN Conceptualizations of Maritime Security” in AMTI Update, available at https://amti.csis.org/asean-conceptualizations-of-maritime-security/.
Dita Liliansa (2021). “Legal and Political History of the 1997 ASEAN Memorandum of Understanding on Sea Turtle Conservation and Protection” in ASEAN Ideas in Progress Series 3/2021, available at https://cil.nus.edu.sg/publication/legal-and-political-history-of-the-1997-asean-memorandum-of-understanding-on-sea-turtle-conservation-and-protection/.
Dita Liliansa (2020). “Market-based Measures against IUU Fishing in Indonesian Waters” in Marta C. Ribeiro, Fernando L. Bastos, and Tore Henriksen (eds), Global Challenges and the Law of the Sea (Springer).
Dita Liliansa (2020). The Necessity of Indonesia’s Measures to Sink Vessels for IUU Fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone. Asian Journal of International Law, 10(1).
Robert Beckman and Dita Liliansa (2019). “Passage through Indonesian Waters on Routes Used for International Navigation” in Myron H. Nordquist, John N. Moore, and Ronan Long (eds), Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region (Brill/Nijhoff).
