CIL Director Dr. Nilufer Oral and CIL Co-Head of the Oceans Law and Policy Team, Dr. Tara Davenport, have edited a collection of essays with NUS Press: “Tara Davenport and Nilufer Oral (eds), UNCLOS at 40: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Koh (NUS Press, 2024). This volume brings together distinguished judges, scholars, practitioners to explore …
In recent decades, South East Asia has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for foreign investment. The member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have employed varying modalities to pursue first security and then economic cooperation. This book explores regional law and governance in ASEAN through the lens of its …
Author: Dawoon Jung (Lecturer, ANCORS at the University of Wollongong, Australia; a Formal Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at CIL). More information at: https://brill.com/display/title/61776?language=en There are various environmental and legal challenges arising from offshore renewable energy activities which were not foreseen at the time of the negotiation of the 1982 United …
Neil Craik, Tara Davenport and Ruth Mackenzie, Liability for Environmental Harm to the Global Commons (Cambridge University Press 2023), more information at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/liability-for-environmental-harm-to-the-global-commons/E283FEF9BB745FA042E6C2E64F68F57F This book examines liability for environmental harm in Antarctic, deep seabed, and high seas commons areas, highlighting a unique set of legal questions: Who has standing to claim environmental harms in global …
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Regional Economic Integration In A Fragmented World by Tommy Koh Definition What is regional economic integration? It is a process by which two or more countries agree to eliminate barriers between their economies and to create a single market. Benefit What are the benefits of regional economic integration? First, is the benefit of an economy …
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China’s foreign investment legal regime encompasses domestic laws governing inward and outward investments, investment treaties and the Belt and Road Initiative. Can China’s foreign investment legal regime lead its two-way investments towards the country’s five development goals (building technological capacity, deepening integration into the global economy, promoting green development, protecting security, and participating in global …
Giannakopoulos, C. (2023). Manifestations of Coherence and Investor–State Arbitration. In Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration (pp. I-Ii). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Coherence is highly valued in law. It is especially sought after in investor-state dispute settlement, where charges of incoherence in arbitral awards have long been raised by states and scholars. Yet coherence is a …
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Authors: Maria Pia Benosa, Robert Beckman It is easy to get lost in the jargon with which maritime professionals navigate any discussion on the work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Understanding the plethora of contemporary issues in international shipping that form part of its agenda, as well as the numerous conventions, technical guidelines and standards under …
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