CIL participated in the 18th session of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy in Rhodes, Greece as a full sponsor, together with the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville, USA); the Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law (Rhodes, Greece); the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland); the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany); and The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands). CIL Director Robert Beckman lectured at the Academy, where he delivered three seminars on ship-source pollution, non ship-source pollution and the South China Sea disputes and co-supervised a workshop on the international regulation of shipping. He also served as one of the four examiners for the oral examination at the end of the course, together with Judges Wolfrum, Cot and Golitsyn from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. CIL Research Fellow Dr Hao Duy Phan won the Best Oralist Award at the Academy. Dr Hao Duy Phan, CIL Research Associate Monique Page and Cambodian official, Mr. Sok Khavan, participated in the Academy under the sponsorship of CIL.