Marta Hermez

Profile

Marta Hermez joined the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies as a doctoral researcher in September 2015. At the Centre, she pursues a PhD on China and the International Law of the Sea, focusing on the regime of islands and militarization at sea in particular, under the supervision of Professor Dr Jan Wouters. Alongside her research, she is teaching assistant in several courses at the KULeuven Faculty of Law and co-organizer of the Euro-Asia Summer School.

In 2015, Marta obtained an LLM in International and European Public Law (cum laude) from the KU Leuven. Prior to her LLM, she obtained a Master of Laws from Ghent University (magna cum laude), with a dissertation on the sovereignty and maritime delimitation dispute in the East China Sea. In the summer of 2015 she participated in the Euro-Asia Summer School, held in Seoul and Leuven.

Research

Publications

Marta Hermez’s recent publications include:

• Wouters Jan and Hermez Marta, ‘EU Guidelines on Human Rights as a Foreign Policy Instrument: An Assessment’ (2016) in S. Poli (ed.), CLEER Papers, vol: 2016/5, Protecting Human Rights in the European Union’s External Relations. The Hague: Centre for the Law of EU External Relations, 63-81;
• Wouters Jan and Hermez Marta, ‘The EU’s Contribution to the Strict Observance and the Development of International Law at the UNGA Sixth Committee’ (2017) in Blavoukos S. and Bourantonis D. (Eds.), The EU in UN Politics. Actors, Processes and Performance, Palgrave, 147-163; and
• Burnay Matthieu and Hermez Marta, ‘The South China Sea: rule of law as a tool of preventive diplomacy’ (2017) Prevention better than cure: The EU's quiet diplomacy in Asia, nr. 33, 40-45 pp. Paris: European Institute for Security Studies.