The Law of the Sea

David Freestone currently works as Deputy General Counsel for Advisory Services at The World Bank in Washington DC. He held a personal chair in International Law at Hull from 1991 to 2002 and has been awarded an Honorary Chair. In 1986 he founded and is now Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law. He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Yearbook of International Law, the Yearbook of International Environmental Law and the Yearbook of European Environmental Law. His recent books include Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms. Making Kyoto Work (ed. with Charlotte Streck); Legislating for Sustainable Fisheries: A Guide to Implementing the 1993 FAO Compliance Agreement and the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement (with William Edeson and Elly Gudmundsdottir); International Law and Sustainable Development (ed with Alan Boyle.) 1999 Dr Richard Barnes has been teaching maritime and international law at the University of Hull for a number of years. He is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and convenor of its maritime law section. He is also a member of the International Law Association and a founding member of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law. Richard has been involved with the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and acted as its European Representative. More recently he has begun working with MarBEF, the EU Network of Excellence on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. He is currently working on a DEFRA funded project to look at environmental indicators and a monograph on Property Rights and Natural Resources. David Ong is curently Reader in the Department of Law, Essex University. He is widely published in the field of international environmental law and international law generally. He is a member of the ILA and is currently co-rapporteur for the ILA committee on Legal Issues of the Outer Continental Shelf.

EDITORS INTRODUCTION; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLE OF INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; 1. Some reflections on developments in the law of the sea; 2. Further development of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention: Mechanisms for change; 3. The role of the United Nations in international oceans governance; 4. Administering the mineral resources of the deep seabed; 5. Towards an international law for the conservation of offshore hydrocarbon resources within the continental shelf?; 6. The protection of underwater cultural heritage. Article 303 and the UNESCO Convention; 7. Maritime boundary delimitation: Where do we go from here?; 8. Submissions to the CLCS in cases of unresolved land and maritime disputes; 9. From permission to prohibition: the 1982 LOSC and protection of the marine environment; 10. Port State Jurisdiction: Towards mandatory and comprehensive use; 11. The protection of biodiversity and fisheries management: Issues raised by the relationship between CITES and LOSC; 12. The future of fisheries regulation; 13. Mammals: exploiting the ambiguities of Article 65 LOSC and related provisions: Practice under the international convention for regulation of whaling; 14. A fraying fabric? High seas fisheries management under the LOSC; 15. The role of the world bank and the global environment facility in the implementation of the regime of the Law of the Sea Convention; 16. Developments in respect of the high seas navigation; 17. Freedom of navigation in a post 9/11 world: Security and creeping jurisdiction; 18. Strategic and political issues with the law of the sea in east asia: navigational regimes and EEZs; 19. Some reflections on the operation of the dispute settlement system of the Law of the Sea Convention during its first decade; 20. A system for law of the sea dispute settlement; 21. The World Court and peaceful settlement of oceans disputes - Some reflections; 22. Concluding remarks; INDEX