Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho presented at the VIII Congress of the Brazilian Institute for the Law of the Sea, 25-26, 29 November 2024, Brasilia, Brazil
Research Associate Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho presented on “The Tensions and Synergies of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and the Law of the Sea: From Western Sahara to Palestine to the Malvinas to the Rest of the World”. He argued that, although the law of the sea is fairly state-centric as it refers to, for example, “coastal State” as the entity entitled to rights over coastal maritime zones, it is not agnostic to the right of peoples to self-determination. Covering this relationship, his work analysed, in view of the contemporary international legal order and State practice, the legal effects of Resolution III annexed to the Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, which adopted the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention.
The Congress was organized by the Brazilian Institute for the Law of the Sea, with participation of, among others, the Brazilian Member in the United Nations International Law Commission, Professor George Gallindo, and of the Secretary-General elect of the International Seabed Authority, Letícia Carvalho.
