Meng Wang

As of October 2021, Meng Wang is affiliated with the International Law Department at Maastricht University as a Ph.D. candidate. She is a Ph.D. representative at UM and a member of the Ius Commune Research School.

Her doctoral research focuses on the protection and utilization of freshwater and the environment during armed conflict under different branches of Public International Law and is supervised by Prof. Liesbeth Lijnzaad and Prof. Michael Faure.

In her Ph.D. research, Meng investigates how international water law, international humanitarian law, general international environmental law, and international human rights law, react and interact with one another in protecting and utilizing freshwater in times of armed conflict.

Meng holds a Bachelor’s degree in law (LLB, 2019) from Huaqiao University, China, and a Master’s degree in Public International Law (LLM, 2020, specializing in Oceans, Environment, and Sustainability) from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Recent Publication:

Wang, M., “A Cautious Compromise: Article 29 of the UN Watercourses Convention and the Protection of Water in Armed Conflict,” The Environmental Law Reporter, forthcoming (December 2025).

Wang, M. & Caceres Solari, A., “Enforcing Biodiversity Protection in Armed Conflict: The Azerbaijan v. Armenia Arbitration under the Bern Convention,” Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, forthcoming (December 2025).

Baudichau, E. & Wang, M., “Conflict at COPs: Russia’s Exit from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands,” Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 28 August 2025, https://www.ejiltalk.org/conflict-at-cops-russias-exit-from-the-ramsar-convention/

Wang, M., “The Unprecedented Ramsar Resolution: Ukrainian Wetlands Protection in Armed Conflict,” Netherlands International Law Review (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40802-024-00246-8