Julia Cirne Lima Weston is a PhD Candidate at the Catholic University of Portugal, with a submitted doctoral thesis on the protection of fishers’ human rights onboard fishing vessels at sea and worked as a researcher on International Law at the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. She holds an LL.M in International Law from University College London, a Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and is a qualified lawyer at the Brazilian Bar Association. During her PhD she has conducted research stays at the CIL NUS and the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. Her research interests lie within Public International Law, especially the intersection between the International Law of the Sea and International Human Rights Law.
