The 2018 programme of the Hague Academy of International Law, Centre for Studies and Research, entitled, International Inspections, will take place 20 August – 7 September 2018. Fields of interest include the law of the sea (e.g. fisheries inspections) and applications are welcome until 31 March 2018.
For more information see the programme and application guidelines.
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The Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland and the Korea Maritime Institute shall host a conference, entitled, New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea, 28-30 June 2018, at the University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland).
For more information, see here.
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In respect of the previously reported conference, A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea, the video proceedings of the conference are now available online:
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The World Maritime University will host its WMU Global Ocean Conference 2018, entitled, Building Transformative Partnerships for Ocean Sustainability, from 8-9 May 2018, at the World Maritime University (Malmö, Sweden). This will coincide with the inauguration of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute.
For more information, see here. For more information on the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, see here.
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The International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS) shall host the 12th Maritime Talks, entitled, Migrants at Sea – Practical and Legal Aspects of the Refugee Situation in the Mediterranean, on the 17 March 2018, at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) (Hamburg, Germany).
For more information see the flyer here, and registration here.
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The Gujarat National Law University in India will hold the 7th GNLU International Maritime Academy, 2018, from March 17 to 24, 2018. The theme of this edition is ‘Indian Ocean Region – Ports Security, Preventing, Reducing and Controlling – IUU Fishing and Marine Environment Pollution’. This academy is designed to explore and assess the trajectory of law and policy affecting maritime commerce, maritime security, and marine environmental protection and resource conservation. The last date of registration is 15th February, 2018. The brochure and registration form are available here.
The University of Adelaide Law School shall host a round table, entitled, Framing the Futures of the South China Sea, 28 February 2018, at The University of Adelaide (Adelaide, Australia).
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The Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore shall host a conference, entitled, Third World Approaches to International Law, 19-21 July 2018, at the National University of Singapore. Submissions, including upon law of the sea, are welcome until 15 March 2018.
For more information see here.
The International Maritime Law Institute, in conjunction with the Stockton Center for International Law, U.S. Naval War College, will hold a workshop entitled “Human Rights and the Law of the Sea”. The event will be held in Malta on 13-14 February 2018. Issues to be discussed include responses to irregular maritime migration, maritime piracy, IUU fishing, and standards for the use of force at sea. More information is available here .
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The Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance will organise the VI Strathclyde postgraduate colloquium on environmental law and governance, 3 May 2018, at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK). The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2018.
For more information see here. Areas of expertise (whereby abstracts are welcome), includes oceans among others.
The School of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), and the CUPL Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center for Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights (CSCTSMR), will convene a symposium, entitled, International laws at the seas, 15-16 March 2018, held at CUPL (Beijing, China). Abstracts may be submitted until 30 January 2018.
For more information see here.
The 7th Colloquium of the AssIDMer will take place the 20 and 21 september 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is organized by the University of Lisbon, the University of Porto and the University of Tromsø. The theme is The Global Challenges and the Law of the Sea. The call for papers may be found here. It is dividided in three sessions: (I) the role of the International Organizations in the implementation and development of the Law of the Sea, (II) superpowers, international courts and the Law of the Sea: challenges for the global oceans regime and (III) the protection and conservation of the areas beyond national jurisdiction: where do we stand. The deadline for the submission of draft papers is 30 April 2018. The provisional program is already available here.
The Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) will host a lecture by Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands, Mr. Hiroshi Inomata, entitled, The Security Situation in the Asia Pacific Region and Japan’s Role, 15 January 2018, at Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
For more information and registration, see here.
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The Groningen Centre of Energy Law shall host a conference, entitled, The North Sea as a Source of Sustainable Energy and Law, 8 December 2017, at the Hilton (The Hague, Netherlands).
For more information, see here.
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The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) shall host the biannual Trade and Sustainable Development Symposium, held alongside the WTO’s Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11), 11-13 December 2017 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
For more information, see the programme here.
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The Faculty of Law and the KG Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, will together organize and host the 11th annual Polar Law Symposium in Tromsø, Norway, October 2 – 4, 2018. The organizers are particularly interested in receiving submissions related to the following topics: Indigenous peoples in the Arctic region, especially implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; climate change; climate change and the law of the sea; ecosystem management approaches; areas beyond national jurisdiction and polar regions; the future of the law of the sea; fisheries issues; protected areas; navigation issues in polar regions; gender issues in indigenous discourse; seaborne tourism; polar institutions and linkages with global institutions. Abstracts should be submitted by May 1, 2018. More information is available here.
ICES, the FAO, IOC/UNESCO, and PICES shall host their 4th International Symposium, entitled, The Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans, 4–8 June 2018, Washington D.C. (USA). A series of pre-conference workshops will also take place, 2-3 June 2018. Abstracts may be submitted for one of the 18 theme sessions until 15 December 2017.
For more information, see here.
The research project Sustainable Ocean will be holding its first project workshop, entitled “Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance: Problems, theories and methods”. The workshop will take place on 19 and 20 April 2018 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This workshop is aimed at engaging with the general debate on regime interaction in international law and at asking experts and non-experts of the law of the sea to discuss ocean governance issues. The program is available here.
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The Human Sea program will be holding its final international conference on 15 and 16 October 2018 at the Nantes Events Center, France. The conference is entitled “Transforming the ocean law by requirement of the marine environment conservation” and its goal is to attempt a synthesis of the legal issues, technological, economic and managerial of the implemented and future evolutions. It will focus on four issues: 1) seabed (continental shelves and international zone), 2) water column (biodiversity and high seas), offshore activities (synthesis on fishing), 3) trade, Marine Renewable Energy, and 4) protection of the marine environment in a highly legal approach (principles of environmental law, regional conventions, EU law). A Junior Conference will be organized on Monday afternoon 15 October 2018, in parallel with the plenary session of the international conference. Deadline for receipt of applications is 25 January 2018. The call for papers may be found here; the junior call may be found here. More information is available here.
The Editors of the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) and the Conference Convenors shall host the 7th Cambridge International Law Conference, Non-State Actors and International Law, 3-4 April 2018, at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK). Abstracts may be submitted until 8 December 2017.
For further information and submissions, see here.
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) shall host a webinar with authors An Cliquet, Afshin Akhtarkhavari, and Anastasia Telesetsky, on their book, Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law, 27 November 2017.
For more information and registration, see here.
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The 23rd Session of the Conference of Parties (COP23), hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat, is taking place 6-17 November 2017, at its headquarters (Bonn, Germany). The Oceans Action Day of the Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Action will take place on the 11 November 2017.
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The Faculty of Law of the University of Lund, in Sweden, will be hosting a forum on ‘Climate Change and the Oceans’. This forum will build upon the UN Oceans conference of June 2017, which provided new impetus for the global appraisal of the projected natural and human implications of climate change on the oceans. The event will take place on 13 November 2017. More information is available here.
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The Baltic Area Legal Studies (BALEX), in cooperation with the Finnish Environment Institute ‘Syke’, will organize a research seminar on the legal issues linked to sunken shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea and related hazardous waste dumped in the sea. The focus is on the rights and obligations of the various parties involved in these operations in cases which are covered neither by cultural heritage rules nor by the Nairobi Convention on wreck removal. The event takes place on 29-30 November 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. More information is available here.
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The Faculty of Law of the Universitas Indonesia will be hosting a seminar entitled “Geo-Political and Legal Development Post Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Award on South China Sea Dispute”. The event will take place on 31 October 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The program is available here. Details about the venue and registration can be found here.
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The NUS Centre for International Law (CIL) shall host a conference, entitled, Adapting Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change, 13-14 March 2018, venue TBC (Singapore).
For more information and draft programme see here.
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The Our Ocean summit has started in Malta, where today and tomorrow (5-6 October 2017) global leaders are invited to commit to new actions to ensure sustainable fisheries, to mitigate climate change impacts, to announce new marine protected areas and to fight marine pollution. The official broadcast of the event can be found here. The unofficial YouTube broadcast can be followed below:
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The Arctic Frontiers 2018 conference, entitled, Connecting the Arctic, will be held 21-26 January 2018, in Tromsø (Norway). A number of presentations will touch upon legal and policy matters.
For more information, see here.
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The Centre de Droit Maritime et Océanique (CDMO) of the University of Nantes is organizing a conference with an aim to analyse the European dimension of action at sea, the challenges for sovereignty and the protection of resources, namely discussing the obligations and practices of European maritime agencies. The event occurs on 26 October 2017 in Nantes, France. More information is available here.
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The World Ocean Council will host the Sustainable Ocean Summit 2017, with the theme, The Ocean Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 14): Business Leadership and Business Opportunities, 29 November – 1 December 2017, in Halifax (Canada).
For more information see the website here, and programme here.
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The Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore is hosting a seminar on the 2017 Council on Foreign Relations’ report “Arctic Imperatives: Reinforcing U.S. Strategy on America’s Fourth Coast“. The event will take place in Singapore, on 20 September 2017. More information is available here.
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The 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress, IMPAC4, will be held 4-8 September 2017, in La Serena – Coquimbo (Chile).
For more information and to watch online, see the programme here.
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The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law shall host a lecture by Prof. Alexander Proelß (University of Trier) to launch the book, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Commentary, 12 September 2017. Prof. Alina Miron will act as interviewer.
For more information see the announcement here, and poster here.
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The Warwick Law School and Social Theory Centre shall host a Critical Legal Conference, entitled, Catastrophe, 1-3 September 2017, at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK). Whilst of broad scope, reflection may be of interest to law of the sea scholars, e.g. Environmental Law, panel 3.
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The Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance shall host a symposium, entitled, Global Environmental Law, 4-5 September 2017, at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK).
For more information and registration (before 18 August 2017), see here.
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FishCRIME 2017 is the third in the series of international fisheries crime symposiums initiated in 2015. FishCRIME 2017 draws together high-level participants and international experts to highlight and advance commitment to tackling the transnational and inter-continental nature of fisheries crime. This year’s edition will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 25-26 September 2017. More information available here.
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The World Maritime University is hosting a conference on Oceans and Climate Change Governance. Topics to be discussed include the IPCC’s ongoing preparation of a special report on oceans, climate change, and the cryosphere, the ongoing work of the International Law Association’s committee on sea level rise the global discussion of implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 and the work of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. The event is set to happen in Malmö, Sweden, on 14-15 August 2017. More information available here.
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As part of the 2017-18 International Order & Justice Lecture Series at Ghent University, Professor Erik Francxk will give a lecture, entitled, The UN Convention for the Law of the Sea and the scramble for the Arctic, 31 October 2017 (Ghent, Belgium). Prior online registration is required. Afterwards, Professor Franckx will take part in a closed seminar with doctoral students. Separate online registration is required.
For more information, see here.
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The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University is organizing a Symposium entitled Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing- Regulatory and Insurance Aspects Symposium. The event is set to take place on Monday June 26th 2017 in London, the UK. The goal is to raise awareness on the issue of IUU fishing among stakeholders within the London insurance market. Registration and other details can be found here.
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The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (Swansea University Law School) shall host a conference, entitled, Maritime Liabilities in a Regional and Global Context: The EU and Beyond, 4-5 September 2017, at Swansea University (Swansea, UK).
For further information (in Welsh and English) see the registration page here, and announcement here.
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The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition shall host a conference, entitled, Antarctica Today and Tomorrow, 29 June 2017, at the Oceanographic Institute (Paris, France).
For more information and registration, see here.
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NGIZ Club Clingendael shall host a conference, entitled, Tensions in the South Chinese Sea and shifting foreign policy interests: What is the future outlook for South East Asia?, 28 June 2017, at the Clingendael Institute (The Hague, Netherlands).
For more information and registration see here.
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The ESIL Interest Group on Law of the Sea shall hold a workshop, entitled, Global Commons and Values in Oceans: What should be the role of the New Implementing Agreement under UNCLOS?, on 6 September 2017, in Naples, Italy. This is a pre-conference workshop on the occasion of the 13th ESIL Annual Conference. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 June 2017.
For more information, see the call for papers. For general information on the ESIL annual conference see here.
The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in co-operation with the African Association of International Law (AAIL) and the African Foundation for International Law (AFIL), shall host a lecture, entitled, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and Africa, 2 June 2017, at The Hague Institute For Global Justice (Hague, Netherlands).
For more information and registration, see here.
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The Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science will host a four day workshop on developments of International Law in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. This event results from a collaboration with the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research and the University of Tasmania and will take place on 10-14 June 2017 in Tehran, Iran. Details about the contents of the workshop can be found in this poster.
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The Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne will host a presentation entitled Winning Legal protection for ancient and historical shipwrecks: the battle to protect the 1565 Royal Navy Fleet of Jean Ribault in Florida and its precedents in international law. The event is set to occur in Paris, France, on 26 May 2017. For more information check this poster and this website.
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The 7th symposium “Human Rights and Science” will be held on 28-29 September 2017 in Helsinki, Finland, and it will discuss the human rights dimension in the Arctic studies. The focal themes revolve around the rights of the indigenous peoples, preconditions of scientific research in the Arctic, and the human rights perspectives in research and utilization of natural resources. The event is open to public but registration is necessary. More information is available here.
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The Baltic Area Legal Studies (BALEX) will organize a research seminar on multi-level governance with a special focus on the Baltic Sea Region in Turku, Finland, on 31 October 2017. The keynote lectures are open events. Additionally, researchers can send their papers for further workshop discussions. The research seminar calls for papers which may relate to the following issues: legal relationships between different layers of regulation; the role of non-legal steering mechanisms in policy-making; ecosystem based management and regulatory tools; industry visions of Baltic Sea developments and related regulatory needs, balancing competing interests. The papers should be sent no later than October 17, 2017. More information is available here.
The German Society for the United Nations (DGVN) and the Swedish Embassy in Germany shall host a conference, entitled, Eine nachhaltige Zukunft für unsere Ozeane? (A sustainable future for our oceans?), 7 June 2017, at the Swedish Embassy (Berlin, Germany). The discussion and live report from the United Nations Ocean Conference will be held in German.
For more information see the programme and registration page.
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