CIL continues its second year of association with the prestigious Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, which convenes annually in Rhodes, Greece. At this year’s Academy, held from 3-23 July 2011, CIL’s Director and Head of its Ocean Law & Policy programme, Prof Robert Beckman, was once again invited to join the Faculty. He delivered seminars on the South China Sea claims, provisional measures in maritime delimitation, and submarine cables. The Centre sponsored two CIL researchers to attend the Rhodes Academy: Mr Leonardo Bernard and Ms Mayla Ibañez. CIL also sponsored Mr Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Assistant Director from Myanmar’s Office of the Attorney General and visiting researcher at CIL, to attend the Academy as part of its capacity building mandate to promote international law in the ASEAN region.
The Rhodes Academy is an intensive three-week programme of lectures and workshops bringing together government officials, researchers, and scholars from diverse fields to promote adherence to the rule of law in the world’s oceans. In accordance with the CIL-Rhodes Academy MOU signed in 2009, CIL is an Associate Sponsor of the Academy, which also involves institutions such as Center for Oceans Law and Policy of the University of Virginia, the Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea. For more information on the Academy, please click here.