Members of the CIL Ocean Law and Policy Programme participated in a workshop organised by INTERPOL on 17 April in Singapore entitled ‘Operation 30 Days at Sea: Asia Pacific Operational Planning Meeting’. The workshop was held as part of a year-long global project to enforce the international rules regulating marine pollution from ships. Associate Professor […]
Research Associate Ms Melissa Loja presented her research paper at the New Voices Panel at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington DC. Ms Loja’s paper was about international agreements between non-state actors. Her paper discussed international agreements that national petroleum corporations such as Petronas, PetroVietnam, PetroleumBrunei and China
Tridacna gigas, the world’s largest living bivalve, could once be found on shallow coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific Region where its presence can be traced back to around 10 million years. However, following several local extinctions throughout its geographic range, its South China Sea (SCS) population appears to have also been the subject of unprecedented
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The importance of identifying, preserving and protecting marine biological diversity (biodiversity) has been a growing theme in the last 20 years. Given UNCLOS centrality, pre-eminence and comprehensiveness, all other specific conventions that apply to the marine environment such as those that pertain to specific uses of the sea (eg shipping) or to the conservation of
CIL-ANCORS Workshop on Negotiating Maritime Boundaries 3–5 July 2018 Following the success of the 2017 Workshop on Maritime Boundaries, the Centre for International Law (CIL) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) of the University of Wollongong will be organising the 2018 CIL-ANCORS Workshop
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BBNJ Update and Forecast by Captain J Ashley Roach Participation in this event is by invitation only. Abstract The UN General Assembly has decided (A/RES/72/249) to convene a diplomatic conference to elaborate an internationally legally binding instrument under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine
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The Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore hosted a two-day regional workshop on PSSAs in Southeast Asia: Trends and Prospects on 11–12 October 2017. The objective of the workshop was to bring together experts and representatives from governments in Southeast Asia to discuss and learn from the recent Southeast Asian proposals
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Three members of the CIL Ocean Law and Policy team—Head of Programme Associate Professor Robert Beckman, Dr Zhen Sun and Ms Millicent McCreath—attended the 2018 Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromso, Norway from 21 to 25 January 2018. The CIL team met with staff and students from the Jebsen Centre for Law of the Sea at
The ‘law of nations’ that colonial powers invoked to claim the South China Sea islands was based not on international convention or custom but on their own municipal laws on guano concession. It provides that states have the exclusive right to assert title over distant islands where their respective citizens have engaged in economic activities.
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Robert Beckman and Christine Sim Legal Order in the World’s Oceans: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, pp 228–250 Edited by Myron Nordquist, John Norton Moore and Ronan Long Brill
