ERVINE JULES BELTRAN SAPE

Ervine Jules Beltran Sape is the Founding Executive Director of the Philippine International Law of the Sea Academy Inc. (PHILSEA). He leads a team of young Filipino ocean professionals in developing law of the sea capacity-building training programmes for Philippine law schools, universities, and colleges to address gaps in interpreting, applying, and enforcing the modern rule of international law of the sea. He trains Filipino law deans, law professors, law lecturers, law students, court attorneys, solicitors, and law enforcement officers to correctly interpret, properly domesticate, and effectively enforce the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), with areas of interest in islands, rocks, maritime boundary delimitation, and Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).

Granted full scholarships from National University of Singapore Centre for International Law (NUS CIL), Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), and Chinese National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS), he holds a Diploma in International Law of the Sea awarded by the Korea Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) and is an alumnus of the Singapore Academy of International Law (SAIL) and International Ocean Institute (IOI) China. In 2023 he was competitively selected by the United States Embassy in the Philippines as an Academic Fellow on Sustainability and Environment under the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Programme hosted by the East-West Center (EWC) in the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa). Since 2021, he has been a Member of the Teaching and Researching International Law in Asia (TRILA) Programme managed by the NUS CIL.

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