Monthly Archives: September 2016

World Maritime Day has been celebrated at IMO Headquarters on 29 September 2016. The theme for this year’s edition was “Shipping: indispensable to the world”. This theme was chosen to focus on the critical link between shipping and global society and to raise awareness of the relevance of the role of IMO as the global regulatory body for international shipping. More information about this event is available in this background paper.

A Parallel Event will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 4 to 6 November 2016. It includes a conference, the program of which is already available here.

PluriCourts – Center for the Study of the Legitimacy of International Courts, UiO, in cooperation with the K.G. Jebsen Center for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS), UiT, shall host a panel discussion, entitled, The South China Sea Arbitration between China and the Philippines, 28 September 2016, at Litteraturhuset, Oslo (Norway).

For further information and the programme, see the PluriCourts and JCLOS announcements.

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in October 2016. On this occasion, a one-and-a-half day international symposium will be held on 5 and 6 October 2016. One of the events is entitled “The contribution of the Tribunal to the Rule of Law” and its aim is to highlight the role played by the Tribunal over the last 20 years in the system for the peaceful settlement of law of the sea-related disputes set out in Part XV of the UNCLOS. The ceremony will occur at the Tribunal’s premises, as reported by the President of ITLOS here (paragraphs 33 and 34), followed the next day by a reception at the City Hall of Hamburg.

The Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer (AssIDMer) is holding its VI Ordinary Colloquium. The event takes place at the Università degli Studi del Sannio, in Benevento, Italy, on 3-4 November 2016. The topic of this year’s edition is “International Tribunals and the Interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”. The program of the event is available here.

The Transnational Law Institute of King’s College London, in collaboration with the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, is hosting a conference entitled “Stress Testing the Law of the Sea”. The event is to be held at the Dickson Poon School of Law on 30 September and 1 October 2016. The program of the conference is available here. More information can also be found here.

The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), shall host a new book forum, entitled, Whaling in the Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment, edited by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Professor Dai Tamada, and published by Brill. The forum will take place on the 23 September 2016 at the law building of QMUL (London, UK).

For more information and registration, see here.

The American Branch of the International Law Association & the International Law Students Association will host their International Law Weekend 2016, entitled, International Law 5.0, from 27-29 October 2016. The event will take place at the New York City Bar and Fordham University School of Law, New York (USA). A number of panels shall deal with law of the sea issues.

For more information and registration see here, and the programme here.

The Maastricht Centre for Human Rights will host an open event entitled, Symposium on the Falklands (Malvinas), on the 7 October 2016, at the Stayokay Hotel Maastricht (The Netherlands). The second panel will deal with ‘issues concerning the exploration and exploitation of resources in the waters around the islands’.

For more information and registration, see here.

The K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) will host a symposium entitled, Innovating for change in global fisheries governance, on the 23 September 2016, at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (Norway).

For more information, see here, and the latest programme. The previously reported call for papers can be found here.