25 June 2013 | CIL Seminar Series

Excessive Maritime Claims in Asia

Introduction

Drawing principally on the recently published third edition of his book, Excessive Maritime Claims (with Robert W. Smith, Nijhoff 2012), this lecture explored the maritime claims of the ASEAN + 3 countries. The lecture identified those maritime claims that do, and do not, conform to the relevant provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The maritime claims that were reviewed were those of ASEAN members Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam, as well as China (including Taiwan), Japan and both Koreas.

All of the ASEAN + 3 countries are party to the Law of the Sea Convention except Cambodia and the DPRK, as well as Taiwan.

About the Speaker

Captain J. Ashley ROACH, JAGC, U.S. Navy (retired) was attorney adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, from 1988 until he retired at the end of January 2009. He was responsible for law of the sea matters. He has taught, advised and published extensively on national maritime claims and other law of the sea issues, including piracy and armed robbery at sea. He has negotiated, and participated in the negotiation of, numerous international agreements involving law of the sea issues. He received his LL.M. (highest honors in public international law and comparative law) from the George Washington University School of Law in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963.

Presentation

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