Oyindamola Temitope Banjoko of Nigeria became the first student to enrol in the joint Master of Philosophy (MPhil) programme in international maritime law and ocean policy launched by the International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) and the World Maritime University (WMU).
Ms Banjoko will spend the first year of the two-year programme (2017-2018) at the WMU in Sweden, where she will attend courses on ocean policy such as sustainability, governance and management. She will move to IMLI, located on the premises of the University of Malta, for the final year (2018-2019).
At IMLI, she will undertake courses in international maritime law, including the law of the sea, shipping law, marine environmental law and maritime security law. Furthermore, she will be required to undertake an independent research work (dissertation) on a topical issue relating to her study and relevant to the needs of her country.
IMLI and WMU established the two-year MPhil programme in order to address the increasing threats to the oceans by a number of human activities and the lack of proper governance of the waters within and beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
For more information about the programme, e-mail admissions@imli.org.