In his testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, John Bellinger argues that the Law of the Sea Convention is beneficial to the United States military, especially ...

Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention including those relating to the freedom of the high ...

9.2 The core functions of the Division are as follows: (a) Promoting better understanding and wider appreciation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention), the ...

The adoption of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, 1982 was the result of the world's most ambitious law reform movements. The Convention is a comprehensive instrument functioning as a ...

Such experiences reaffirm his longstanding research work into global marine conservation laws and policy ... the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It argues that the 40-year ...

China began its rapid naval expansion in the mid-1980s, initially prioritizing the immediate vicinities of East Asia and the Taiwan Strait. Today, its power projection capabilities have expanded ...

But as important and comprehensive as this “blue turn” has been, it has yet to substantively and creatively take up questions of ocean law and governance. Specifically, increasing concerns around ...

aims to declare the country's maritime zones according to the standards set by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos). It aims to set up more firmly the legal bases for the ...

Sri Lanka has become a signatory to the agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond Natio ...

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...