CIL and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS), UiT The Arctic University of Norway held a side event at Arctic Frontiers 2018 in Tromsø, Norway on 24 January 2018 to launch the book entitled Governance of Arctic Shipping: Balancing Rights and Interests of Arctic States and User States. The book […]
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[Supported Event] Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy 2018
[Supported Event] Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy 2018 Read More »
ILA Intersessional meeting—Baselines under the International Law of the Sea Committee Participation is exclusively for ILA Members. To register, please click here.
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ILA Intersessional meeting—International Law and Sea Level Rise Participation is exclusively only for ILA Members To register, please click here
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Anjali Sugadev and Robert Beckman Legal Status of Submarine Cables, Pipelines and ABNJ, pp 3–32 Hakan Karan, Sami Aksoy and Kubra Var Turk (eds) Ankara University Research Center of the Sea and Maritime Law
Global Regulation of Submarine Cables and Pipelines: Similarities, Differences and Gaps Read More »
The marine environment of Southeast Asia is amongst the most ecologically important in the world. A substantial volume of international shipping passes through the region which can have a deleterious effect on the environment due to impacts including operational and accidental discharges, collisions and groundings. Recently Malaysia, Indonesia, Viet Nam and the Philippines have introduced
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is widely viewed as a ‘constitutive’ instrument that provides a legal framework that is being filled in, rounded out and complemented by existing and subsequently enacted international agreements and customary international law. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the preeminent international organization with
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This chapter uses the interaction of submarine cables and the marine environment of the Sargasso Sea as an example to extrapolate useful lessons for both the negotiators of the new high seas agreement and the cable industry that can guide them in future discussions on the interaction between submarine cables and the new legal regime.
Submarine Cables in the Sargasso Sea: Lessons for the Prep-Com Read More »
On 12 July 2016, the Tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration issued its final award. China rejected the ruling as ‘null and void’. The Philippines dismissed it as ‘a piece of paper’ after initially hailing the ruling a ‘milestone decision’. The reactions of the parties concerned raise important questions about the bindingness, finality, and
CIL Senior Research Fellow Youna Lyons participated in the KIOST/JVDI 2017 Regional Conference on the Ocean Policy for the East Asia and the Pacific Islands in Nadi-Fiji on 16–18 Nov 2017. The theme was ‘SDG 14 and Ocean Issues for the Pacific Islands and the East Asia’. She presented on the topic of ‘UNCLOS as
