Daria VASILEVSKAIA - v17031253

Daria VASILEVSKAIA is a PhD candidate jointly enrolled through Melbourne Law School and Aix-Marseille University, France. She researches in the area of international and European environmental law. She is particularly interested in the impact of trade and transport of plastic waste on marine pollution. She lectures at both universities in the area of international and European environmental law.

Daria’s PhD research is funded by Aix-Marseille University with additional support from the Melbourne Law School. In 2019, Daria completed a three-month internship at the United Nations Environment Programme Headquarters in Kenya. She was a legal intern for the International Law Unit of the Law Division. She engaged in projects related to marine plastic pollution and plastic waste regulation, environmental defenders and environmental justice, climate change and renewable energy, and wildlife crime.

Daria VASILEVSKAIA holds an LLM in International and European Environmental Law from Aix-Marseille University, funded through a scholarship from the French Government. Daria’s two Master theses focused on the implementation of environmental treaties related to environmental justice and waste regulation. She also holds a degree in linguistics, interpreting, translation and simultaneous interpretation from Moscow State Linguistic University. Before taking up legal studies, Daria worked as an interpreter and translator.

Languages spoken : English, French, Russian

Son sujet de thèse est le suivant : La réglementation internationale du commerce et du transport des déchets plastiques pour prévenir la pollution marine par les plastiques, sous la co-direction de Sandrine MALJEAN-DUBOIS, directrice de recherche au CNRS (Aix-Marseille Université) et de Margaret YOUNG, Professeure à l'Université de Melbourne. Ses recherches se rattachent donc à l'axe 4 de recherche de l'UMR Droit, sciences et techniques.