CIL Academic Symposium
on Submarine Cables

On Saturday 4 May 2024, CIL organized an CIL Academic Symposium on Submarine cables.  The symposium was attended by members of the CIL Ocean Law and Policy Team plus two academics each from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia, as well as one academic from the UK, and the legal adviser of the ICPC.

In preparation for the CIL Academic Forum, the academics from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam who CIL sponsored to attend the ICPC-CIL Workshop prepared country reports outlining the regulation of submarine cables in their respective countries. These reports were summarized in that Academic Symposium.

In addition, Profs Stuart Kaye and Robert McLaughlin summarized the regulation of submarine cables in Australia, and Profs Robert Beckman and Tara Davenport summarized the regulation of submarine cables in Singapore. Finally, Kent Bressie, the international law advisor of the ICPC, summarized the Best Practice Guidelines of the ICPC.

The attached CIL Report on Regulation and Protection of Submarine Cables in ASEAN (edited by Robert Beckman and Joel Ong) combines the country reports of the academics from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. CIL hopes that it will serve as the basis for analysing and reviewing the legal issues relating to the regulation of submarine cables in Southeast Asia.

For more information, please find attached for a copy of the programme agenda and report on the left.