Alexander Lott is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. His research interests cross traditional boundaries between the law of the sea, administrative law, environmental law, human rights, and international security law. His book publications include "The Estonian Straits: Exceptions to the Strait Regime of Innocent or Transit Passage" (Brill, 2018) and “Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea: Use of Force and Discriminatory Navigational Restrictions in Straits” (Brill, forthcoming).