S.S. (Sevim Sena) Taskaya, LLM

Sevim Sena Taskaya is a PhD candidate at the Transboundary Legal Studies Department at the University of Groningen. Her research is about 'Regulating offshore renewable energy sustainably under the international law of the sea framework'. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and a double major degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. In 2021, she completed her master’s degree in public law at Galatasaray University in Istanbul with her dissertation on ‘The Crime of Intentional Pollution of the Environment’. As of 2019, she is an attorney registered to the Istanbul Bar Association.

Her areas of expertise are public international law, law of the sea, marine environmental law, and ocean governance. She is fluent in Turkish and English and at an intermediate level of Dutch.