Hugo Caminos is a former judge (1996-2011) at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and a member of the Institut de Droit International. He was Deputy Director of the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Legal Counsel for the Organization of American States. Vincent P. Cogliati-Bantz holds a doctorate in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.
He lectures on the law of the sea, international organisations, European Union law and comparative law at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.