Prof. Dr. Louis Sicking, holding the Aemilius Papinianus chair in History of International Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and lecturer in medieval and early modern history at Leiden University (Netherlands), has been instrumental in reframing maritime history to consider the importance of insular dynamics for larger debates. He currently leads the project “Managing markets. Commercial Institutions in the Principalities of the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries Compared” together with Bart Lambert at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and VUB Brussels and previously led the project: Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600 (2016-2019). Sicking is a member of the scientific committee of Revue d’histoire maritime (Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne) and member of the international editorial board of the Anales de Historica Medieval de la Europea Atlántica. Professor Sicking’s publications include: 
Louis Sicking and Alain Wijffels eds., Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800. Actors, Institutions and Strategies of Dispute Settlement (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020). “Islands and Maritime Connections, Networks and Empires, 1200-1700.  Introduction.” International Journal of Maritime History 26.3 (2014):  489-493 and “Islands, Pirates, Privateers and the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean.” Seapower, Technology and Trade: 
Studies in Turkish Maritime History. Eds. Couto, Dejanirah, Gunergun, Feza, Pedani, Maria Pia. Istanbul: Piri Reis University Publications, 239-252.