21 & 22 September 2024: Dr Nilufer Oral was invited to Speak at the 30th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: The ‘Constitution for the Oceans’ in Light of Emerging Challenges

The Symposium is jointly organized by the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) and the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) to mark the 30th anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. Further sponsors include the British Institute of International & Comparative Law (BIICL), the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore (CIL NUS), the Centre for Ocean Governance Law (University of Gothenburg), the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland, the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) and the University of the Faroe Islands. The Symposium, which will take place on the premises of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, will address current and at the same time forward-looking issues (current developments concerning the continental shelf and deep seabed mining in the Area; the BBNJ Agreement; law of the sea and climate change) through six high-level panels. The overall aim of the event is to determine whether, and to what extent, the UNCLOS regime provides a suitable legal basis for new challenges that were not yet foreseeable at the time of its entry into force in 1994. The focus is therefore on the future viability of UNCLOS as such.

More about the symposium at the link: https://www.iflos.org/events/upcoming/