Dr. Mitja Grbec is an attorney-at-law in the port town of Koper/Capodistria, the Secretary- General of the Maritime Law Association of Slovenia, an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management of the University of Primorska and a visiting lecturer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta. He graduated from law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law and completed his LLM and Ph.D. studies in international maritime law at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMO IMLI) in Malta. He has held several positions both in the academia and corporate sector, including that of a permanent lecturer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMO IMLI) in Malta, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transportation (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) member of the Supervisory Board of the company Slovenian Railways d.o.o. and President and Vice-President of the Maritime Law Association of Slovenia. Among others, he is the author of the book ‘Extension of Coastal State Jurisdiction in Enclosed or Semi-enclosed seas: A Mediterranean and Adriatic Perspective’ and co-editor of the book Legal Aspects of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean; An Adriatic and Ionian Perspective, published by Routledge/Taylor Francis (London, New York) in 2014 and 2023. He is currently an attorney-at-law in the port city of Koper (LAW OFFICE GRBEC), Slovenia, and a consultant in the field of international maritime law (Mare Nostrvm d.o.o.).  He has been recently appointed as a Titulary Member of the Comite Maritime International (CMI)