Category Archives: Events

The University of the Faroe Islands and the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen shall host a conference, entitled, Resilience of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: 40 Years, 10 March 2023 at the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark). For more information see here.

The African Union will host a conference, entitled, 40 Years of Africa’s Contribution to UNCLOS, 16 December 2022 in a hybrid format (AU Headquarters, Ethiopia/Zoom). For more information see here and zoom here.

Gujarat Maritime University, in association with the Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea (University of the Philippines) will host a webinar, entitled, UNCLOS@40, 10 December 2022 (Online). For more information see here.

The Centro de Estudos em Direito do Mar (CEDMAR) of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) will host the 5th Brazilian Congress on the Law of the Sea, themed, 40 years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 8-10 December 2022, in São Paulo/Santos (Brazil). For more information see here.

The Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute of the World Maritime University (Sweden) will host a webinar on International Law and the Nord Stream Leaks, to take place on Friday November 18 at 14.00-15.30 CET. The webinar will take the form of a roundtable discussion. More information and a link to register can be found here.

The Kofi Anan International Peacekeeping Training Center​ (KAIPTC), the Royal Danish Defence College and SIGLA​ (Stellenbosch University) will co-host a webinar, entitled, Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea: Rethinking the Past and Contemplating the Future, 16-17 November 2022, in a hybrid format (KAIPTC, Accra, Ghana/Online). For more information see here.

The Institute for the International Law of the Sea and Maritime Law (University of Hamburg), the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder, and the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland will organise a conference, entitled, Dynamics of the Constitution for the Oceans: UNCLOS at 40, 9-10 December 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. For more information and registration see here.

South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the Korean Society of International Law and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), will host its Seventh International Conference on the Law of the Sea, entitled, Law of the Sea for the Next Generation: Effectiveness of UNCLOS Revisited, 15-17 November 2022, in a hybrid format (Seoul/Online).

For more information and registration see here.

The Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University (ARI) and The Development of International Law In Asia-Korea (DILA-KOREA) will co-host an international workshop entitled, The Nexus Implied from the Maritime Order in East Asia in 1945-1952: Between Indeterminacy and Strategical Ambiguity, 7 November 2022, online (Zoom). For more information see here.

The School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) is hosting a conference entitled Preparing for Sea Level Rise. This event is set to happen in Lisbon on 18 November 2022. The program of the event is available here.

The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) and the Utrecht University Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL), in collaboration with the Centre for International Law (CIR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, are organizing a workshop entitled Filling the legal toolbox for working towards ocean sustainability: UNCLOS, UNCLOS 2.0 and/or what else? This event is set to take place on 17 and 18 November 2022, in The Hague (Netherlands). Further information about registration, as well as the program of the event, is available here.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Malaya in collaboration with the Malaysian Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law will host a conference, entitled, The Asian Legal Order: Adoption of Universal Norms or Adaptation of Local Values?, 25 October 2022 in a hybrid format (University of Malaya/Zoom). Session III addresses peace and security in the South China Sea. For more information see here.

The Consortium for the Study of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy (CONSMAR) and the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Centre of the University of Haifa will host the first webinar in their Eastern Mediterranean Talks series, entitled, Maritime Boundaries Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 20 October 2022, online (Zoom). For more information see here.

The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (UC Berkeley School of Law) shall host the Fall 2022 Harry & Jane Scheiber Lecture in Ocean Law & Policy, entitled, Climate Change and the Oceans: An Existential Challenge for International Law, 17 October 2022, in a hybrid format (UC Berkeley Law School/Zoom). For more information and registration see here and here.

The International Seabed Authority, in partnership with the Permanent Representation of Singapore to the United Nations, will host a conference (CfP previously reported), entitled, Women in the Law of the Sea: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Adoption of UNCLOS, 26-28 September 2022, in a hybrid format (New York/Virtual). For more information see here and here.

The NATO Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters, in co-sponsorship with the Stockton Center for International Law at the United States Naval War College, and in cooperation with the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania will host a conference, entitled, Operational Maritime Law, 10-13 October 2022, in Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information see here.

The ANU Centre for International and Public Law, the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation and the Attorney General’s Department will host a book launch for C. Goodman, Coastal state jurisdiction over living resources in the exclusive economic zone‘ (Oxford University Press, 2021), 22 September 2022, at the ANU College of Law. For more information see here.

The Faculty of Law (University of Oslo) will host the next seminar in their seminar series (Delimitation agreements, Sovereignty, and Jurisdiction Claims: Current Trends, Recent Cases and Future Perspectives), entitled, Elon Musk and the Law of the Sea, 5 September 2022, in a hybrid format (UIO/Zoom). For more information see here.

The International Foundation for the Law of the Sea is organizing the 2022 Maritime Talks. The subject of this year is Security, Safety, and Freedom of Navigation through Straits. The event takes place on 24 September 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. More information can be found on the event poster.

The 2022 London Conference on International Law, themed, States in Emergency – International Law at a Time of Reckoning, will be held 10-11 October 2022 at the QEII centre (London, UK). Panel 6 will address jurisdiction and enforcement at sea. For more information see here.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Maritime University (WMU) will host a conference, entitled, Protecting the Ocean – Moving forward at 50: London Convention & Stockholm Declaration, 10-13 October 2022 in Malmö (Sweden) (partially hybrid). For more information see here.

The AsianSIL Law of the Sea Interest Group will host a panel discussion on the recent book ‘The Continental Shelf Delimitation Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Towards A Common Approach to Maritime Boundary-Making’ (Cambridge University Press 2021), 31 August 2022, 16:30-18:00 (Singapore Time (SGT)), online (Zoom) (Passcode in the Flyer).

The Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy (BCOLP) will host the first episode of its inaugural webinar series, entitled, Beyond Boundaries: Collaborative Ocean Governance in the Bay of Bengal, 30 July 2022, Online. For more information see here.

TLMDS will host its first Tech, Law and Maritime Defense Summit, 11-13 October 2022, online. For more information on select speakers and to register see here.

Universität Hamburg will host an interdisciplinary conference, entitled, Equity Perspectives on Global Ocean Law and Governance, 7 September 2022, in a hybrid format (Hamburg (Germany)/Online). For more information and registration see here.

The AsianSIL Law of the Sea Interest Group will host an informal discussion on the ICJ’s Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Colombia), Judgment of 21 April 2022, on 30 June 2022, 16:30-17:30 (Singapore Time (SGT)), online (Zoom) (Meeting ID: 907 705 7650). For further background information, see previous De Maribus reporting.

The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), and the Australian Embassy (Viet Nam) shall host the 8th Ocean Dialogue, themed, 40th Anniversary of UNCLOS: Promoting Maritime Cooperation in Southeast Asia, 29 June 2022, in a hybrid format (Ha Noi/Online). For more information see the programme and virtual registration form.

Law firm Volterra Fietta shall host a seminar entitled Fair and Equitable Deep Seabed Mining. This seminar will address the various issues arising from the fair and equitable distribution of deep seabed mining’s financial and other benefits, including as they pertain to the notion of equitable distribution, the transfer of technology, the Enterprise and the Deep Seabed Mining Code. This event will take place on 16 June 2022; for more information see here.

Law firm Volterra Fietta shall host a seminar entitled Dispute resolution under UNCLOS. This seminar will address various aspects of the UNCLOS dispute resolution system, namely: creativity in such dispute settlement, clarification of the law of the sea through dispute settlement, influencing dispute settlement under UNCLOS, comparisons between the different dispute settlement mechanisms under UNCLOS and how the dispute settlement system might be used to interpret UNCLOS in light of technological developments. This event will take place on 9 June 2022; for more information see here.

Law firm Volterra Fietta is organizing a seminar entitled Maritime boundary delimitation in practice. This event will address will discuss how States and private companies alike can better understand and negotiate, and if necessary, plead maritime boundary delimitation in the most sophisticated and detail-oriented ways. The event will take place on 18 May 2022. For more information, see here. 

The International Law Association (Australian Branch) will host a webinar, entitled, Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea: A conversation with contributors, 26 May 2022, online, to celebrate the release of Natalie Klein (ed.) Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea (OUP 2022). For more information see here.

The University of the Faroe Islands and the Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland are organizing a conference entitled Persistent and Emerging Challenges in International Fisheries Law. This conference will focus on challenges that emerge and those that persist in international fisheries law, including IUU fisheries related matters, institutional mechanisms in RFMOs, jurisdictional aspects in regard to fisheries disputes, substantive aspects in regard to disputes on the conservation and management of transboundary fish stocks, trade related measures with respect to fisheries resources and fisheries related matters concerning BBNJ. The event shall be held in the Faroe Islands, at Kongshøll, on 23 – 25 June 2022. Early bird registration deadline is 15 May 2022. More information is available here.

On 26 May 2022 the Manchester International Law Centre (UoM) and Manchester University Press shall host a virtual book launch with the authors for: Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe and Amy Sander, The law of the sea (4th Ed., 2022). For more information see here.

The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL) will host a workshop, entitled, The United Nations Convention on the law of the sea at forty: the contribution of the judiciary and judicial jurisdiction, 5-6 May 2022 in a hybrid format (Utrecht/Online). For more information see here.