(Papers to be published in a special issue of the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal)
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was signed on 10 December 1982 at Montego Bay, Jamaica. This panel will take stock of the treaty and appraise the effect of the ensuing thirty years of state practice under UNCLOS and the law of the sea, and consider the future significance of the Convention for the evolving world public order of the oceans. Among the topics to be considered are the strategic importance of UNCLOS in public international law, challenges of ratification and compliance, and the use of legal norms and regimes in UNCLOS to resolve maritime incidents, disputed maritime zones, and contending approaches to the Arctic, the marine environment, fisheries management, freedom of navigation, and delimitation and exploitation of the continental shelf, and other issues of oceans governance.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.