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Professor Stella Emery Santana visited the University of Bergen Faculty of Law in Bergen, Norway, where she discussed her latest research.

Professor Santana's first talk was for the group "Concerned Students Norway," and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation. She was part of a lecture titled "National Environmental Disasters: Cases from Norway and Brazil.

Professor Santana's second lecture was titled, "Is Brazil Heading Towards River Basin and Integrated Coastal Zone Management?" This lecture was part of the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) at the University of Bergen. In the photo from this event, from left, are Professor Santana; Kårstein Måseide, Senior Adviser and Research Coordinator at CET; Ernst Nordtveit of the University of Bergen Faculty of Law; and Sigrid Eskeland Schütz of the University of Bergen Faculty of Law.

Professor Santana's third lecture was part of a half-day seminar organized by Ocean Sustainability Bergen and the Research group for Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law and Development Law. She discussed "Environmental protection on the High-Seas (the common heritage of mankind) and economic activities in the area -- past, present and future."

Professor Santana has been a visiting professor at IU McKinney since 2017, teaching a seminar in Environmental Law and Policy, and a course in International Environmental Law. She has been doing research on Ocean Law and Water Law while at the law school. She will return to teaching at her home university, FAESA, in Vitoria, Brazil, in Summer 2019.