South China Sea

CIL has published three books on the South China Sea:

• The South China Sea Arbitration: The Legal Dimension, 2018
  Edited by S Jayakumar, Tommy Koh, Robert Beckman, Tara Davenport and Hao Duy Phan
• The South China Sea Disputes and Law of the Sea, 2014
  Edited by S Jayakumar, Tommy Koh and Robert Beckman
• Beyond Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: Legal Frameworks for the Joint Development of Hydrocarbon Resources, 2013
  Edited by Robert Beckman, Ian Townsend-Gault, Clive Schofield, Tara Davenport and Leonardo Bernard

In addition to organising events and publishing on the South China Sea, CIL research staff have prepared the following research materials on the South China Sea:

• ASEAN and the South China Sea: Extracts from ASEAN documents on the South China Sea from 1992 to 2011
• Text of Joint Development Agreements in Southeast Asia, Gulf of Tonkin, North East Asia and the Timor Sea
• Bibliography on Joint Development and the South China Sea

CIL led and coordinated a special project on the South China Sea entitled ‘Multidisciplinary Satellite Survey of the Shallow Geographic Feature in the SCS'. Click here to access data obtained from this project.

Read also:

• 2022/73 “On the United States, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and US Freedom of Navigation Operations” by Robert Beckman