Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons was invited as a lecturer in the 3rd Training Programme by International Ocean Institute on ‘Regional Ocean Governance Framework, Implementation of the UNCLOS and Its Related Instruments in the Southeast Asian Seas and the Indian Ocean’. The course took place on 1–28 July 2018 in Hua Hin, Thailand. Ms Lyons’s […]
Prospects for Regional Cooperation on Fisheries by Judge Kriangsak Kittichaisaree
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The Centre for International Law successfully organised the second CIL-ANCORS Workshop on the Negotiation of Maritime Boundaries on 3 to 5 July 2018. The workshop was held in coordination with the Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum. The workshop combined interactive lectures and supervised practical exercises, in which participants negotiated a maritime boundary between two fictitious states.
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CIL-ILA Seminar on The Use of Force Against Foreign Terrorist Fighters An event jointly organised by The issue of foreign terrorist fighters acting in armed conflict has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. This is aptly illustrated by events in Syria where as many as 13,000 foreign fighters may have mobilised to fight.
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Associate Professor Robert Beckman participated in 2018 Global Ocean Regime Conference organised by the Korea Maritime Institute at the Hyatt Regency, Jeju Island, Korea, from 16 to 18 May 2018. The title of the conference was ‘Promoting Cooperation in Overlapping Maritime Areas’. Assoc Prof Beckman gave a presentation on ‘Joint Arrangements in the South China
Associate Professor Robert Beckman and Visiting Senior Principal Research Fellow Captain Ashley Roach participated in the 42nd Annual Conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy of the University of Virginia, which was held in Beijing on 24–25 May 2018. The title of the conference was ‘Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia Pacific Region’.
On 9 May 2018, the Conciliation Commission in the maritime boundary dispute between Timor-Leste and Australia issued its report, marking the conclusion of the first-ever conciliation proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This article aims to explain the significance of this ground-breaking conciliation case that culminates in the
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This chapter examines Vietnam’s position on the rights of coastal states versus the rights of user states as provided in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The first section provides the context and an overview of Vietnam’s participation in the negotiation of UNCLOS as well as its subsequent implementation
On 13–14 March 2018, the Centre for International Law hosted a two-day international conference on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Adapting the Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change. The objective of the conference was to bring together leading legal and scientific experts to discuss the impacts of
At the 2nd Conference on Maritime Security and Coastal Surveillance Indonesia in Jakarta, Dr Zhen Sun spoke on ‘Fostering More Effective Non-Traditional Maritime Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia’ to an audience consisting of government officials, industry representatives, academics and members of other private sectors. Dr Sun said that as non-traditional maritime security threats (eg, trafficking
