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The European Shipping Week will take place in Brussels from 27 February to 3 March 2017. This event is intended to be a platform where policy-makers from the main EU institutions will meet and engage with European shipowners and other stakeholders from the shipping sector. It is an initiative of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations and is run by a Steering Group made up of Europe’s main shipping organizations as well as the European Commission and Shipping Innovation. The program of the main Conference entitled “European Shipping Policy: Delivering Global Competitiveness, Quality and Sustainability” can be found here and the calendar of the remaining events is here.

The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) and the Utrecht Centre for Water Ocean and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL) organize a symposium discussing the pertinent legal issues arising from the PCA Award on The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of Philippines v. The People’s Republic of China). The symposium will take place at the Raadzaal of the Utrecht University School of Law (Achter Sint Pieter 200) on 7 December 2016. The programme of the event can be found here.

The Arctic Frontiers conference, entitled, White Space – Blue Future, will be held 22-27 January 2017, in Tromsø (Norway). A number of presentations will touch upon legal matters.

For more information see here, and registration (fees apply) here.

The Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law will host a colloquium, entitled, Ecosystem based management in the Arctic, from 1-2 December 2016, at the University of Oslo.

For more information and registration (fees apply), please see here.

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.

The Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore is hosting an event on maritime governance. In this presentation it will be discussed to what extent Barents Sea and Pacific Arctic marine management embedded in the international system can be compared, and what research and policy lessons can be shared from this comparison. The event occurs on 22 August 2016 in Singapore; more information about the speakers and the venue can be found here.

The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) will host a seminar (in dutch only) entitled, Visserij in de Poolgebieden, on the 14 September 2016, at Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Participation is free, but registration encouraged due to space constraints.

For more information see here, and the programme here.

The University of New England is hosting a round table entitled “Can We Move Beyond Disputes in the South China Sea?”. The event occurs on Monday 1 August 2016 at the CB Newling Campus of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. More information on the panelists and the presentations can be found here.

MPA Action Agenda, MPA News, and the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by NatureServe and OpenChannels.org), will host a webinar entitled, Protecting the high seas through a new marine biodiversity treaty under UNCLOS, on 26 July 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST.

For more information see here, and registration here.

The City University of London will host a book discussion, entitled, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, on the 27 July 2016, in room AG21, City University London – College Building (London, UK). The event is free, but registration is required.

Form more information see here. Information on the book to be discussed can be found here.

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is holding in London, the UK, an event entitled “Obligations of States in Undelimited Maritime Areas”. This event will analyse and discuss the obligations of States in regard to undelimited areas pending agreement on maritime boundary delimitation. In particular, the event will focus on the obligations of States under Articles 74(3) and 83(3) of UNCLOS to refrain from activities that could jeopardise or hamper the reaching of a final agreement on maritime delimitation. The event occurs on 22 July 2016 and is free to attend, but registration is required. Further information about the venue, the guest speakers and the registration is available here.

The Piraeus Bar Association is organizing the 9th edition of its International Conference of Maritime Law. This event is the sequel of a tradition established 24 years ago. It will be held in Piraeus from 13 to 15 October 2016 and will deal with Maritime Safety and Security (legal implications to ships, cargo and the human element). Young scholars and practitioners are also invited to participate to an essay competition, the “Young Maritime Prize”. More information about the conference can be found here. The terms to apply for the prize are here. Registration and venue information is to be found here.