The 2015 International Law Weekend, entitled Global Problems, Legal Solutions: Challenges for Contemporary International Lawyers, will be held at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York at 42 West 44th Street (November 5th), and at the Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center (November 6-7, 2015). A number of panels are focused on the law of the sea, ‘Towards a New Implementing Agreement Under UNCLOS on Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’; ‘Arctic Ocean Stewardship’ and ‘Rising Seas, Baselines Issues: The Work of the International Law Association Baselines and Sea Level Rise Committee’.

Please consult the draft program. More information and registration can be found here.

The K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea is presenting a workshop entitled ‘The EU as a Global Actor in the Arctic’. The event will occur on 26 October 2015 in Tromsø. It aims at discussing emerging legal issues concerning the current European regulatory framework in the Arctic. More information can be found here.

A seminar entitled Arctic Shipping and Safety – Legal Challenges and Opportunities, will be held by the Royal Danish Naval Academy in Copenhagen (Denmark) from 6 – 7 October 2015. Note attendance fees are applicable; students (DKK 150) professionals (DKK 350). For more information see here.

The editors of this blog proudly present an event of their own making. A conference entitled “Extraterritoriality in Port state Jurisdiction” will be held at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, on December the 14th. The event is organized under the research project UNIJURIS which focuses on unilateralism and the protection of global values within public international law. The program of the event can be found here.

The University of Macerata in Italy is holding a conference on the Governance of the Adriatic and Ionian Marine Space (La governance dello spazio marino adriatico-ionico). The event is presented in Italian and occurs on November 12-13, 2015. More information on the program and the venue can be found here.

The Human Sea European research project is presenting a conference in Nantes, 5-6 October 2015. The topic of this event is illegal activities at sea and state competencies. Presentations will focus on a wide range of issues: piracy and robbery, trafficking in human beings, clandestine immigration, drug trafficking, illegal fishing… The abstracts and more information on the registration and venue can be found here.

The University of Amsterdam is hosting a two-day event on fisheries and oil pollution on 7-8 October, 2015. The initiative is organized within the framework of the research project ‘Smart Mixes in relation to Transboundary Environmental Harm’. The objective is to provide insight into how alternative modes of regulation and different forms of regulatory instruments can complement the traditional approach of regulation through international agreements. More information about the event can be found here.

Danish Maritime Days is an annual event within Denmark, which this year will be held from the 5-6 October with a number of events of interest for those concerned with maritime regulation. The focus for events is the Copenhagen region and an overview can be found here.

The Centre of Excellence Operations In Confined and Shallow Waters is organizing its 3rd Conference on Operational Maritime Law. The event is to occur in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares, between the 21 and 24 of September. The topic of this year’s event will be “There and Back Again: From Origins to Modern Threats”. The event will include presentations/discussions on Law of Armed Conflict, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, The Mining of International Straits, Maritime Law Disputes on the Horizon, and Freedom of Navigation. Additionally, there will be legal workshops on Rescue and Assistance at Sea and Law Enforcement on the High Seas. You can find the invitation here and the agenda here. Registration is open until September the 4th subject to prior registration here.

The Long-Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) shall host a high-level workshop entitled ‘CFP: The External Dimension as a Driver for Change: Sustainable Fisheries & Regional Cooperation‘ in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 16-17th September 2015.

For more information see their website here, and registration here.

Celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, and the establishment in 2015 of the Antonio Cassese Initiative Foundation in the Netherlands, the Asser Instituut (The Hague) shall host; Asser 50 years – Public International Law Symposium “International Legal Aspects of Countering Piracy”. The event will taker place on the 15 October, 2015, from 09.00 – 17.15 hrs (followed by a reception).

More information can be found here, along with registration here.

The Universidade de Vigo, together with two other Spanish universities (A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela), are organizing a conference entitled “Work at Sea – New Maritime Legal Scenarios”. The event takes place in Vigo, Spain, 2-3 june. The program and the venue are available here.

An international conference entitled “challenges in the new ocean order: a legal perspective” is set to happen in Lisbon during Portugal’s 2015 Blue Week. The event occurs 4 June at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (Parque das Nações). More information on the whole event can be found here and here. The program of the conference is available here.

The University of Greenwich will host The Chagos Litigation: A Socio-Legal Dialogue Conference, on the 29th June 2015. The schedule and reservation information can be found here. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Those interested in attending, may also wish to attend the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context New Book Series: The Chagos Islanders and International Law. The book discussion will be hosted by Queen Mary University (London), on the 27th May 2015. More information here.

The T.M.C. Asser Instituut will host a lecture entitled, Oil and Gas in the Marine Arctic: the Rights and Responsibilities of States and Peoples, by Prof. Rachael Lorna Johnstone, University of Akureyri, Iceland on the 26 May, 2015 at 15:00-17:00.

More information, and registration details may be found on the website here, and flyer here.

World Oceans Day on June 8th has been recognized by the United Nations since 2008. Those wishing to hold a conference or event can register online, here.

The schedule of all currently registered events can be found here. Of particular note to those interested in law of the sea is the Marine Protected Areas and the Law of the Sea Workshop, hosted by ISRIM and the University of Applied Sciences, Bremerhaven.

The conference, Maritime Security and Offshore Activities: Legal Aspects, hosted by ISRIM, in cooperation with MARSAFENET and IMLI will be held on the 12 June 2015 at the Chambers of Commerce, Bremen.

More information and registration details can be found here.

The Interspill Conference is happening in Amsterdam this year, between 24 and 26 March. It will be held at Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre, the Netherlands, and is co-organised by Reed Exhibitions and Interspill Ltd. The conference will be hosted by the Spill Response Group Holland (SRGH). The event includes an exhibition and focuses on the changing landscape of spill preparedness and response; it also focuses on how activities continue to move into more challenging environments and on how public sensitivities to perceived spill risks has increased. The program of the conference is available here. Registration can be done here.

Hosted by the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law, in partnership with the ASIL Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group, the 2015 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum will be held 25th-26th May 2015, in Taipei, Taiwan. The theme is Integrating the Asia-Pacific: Why International Law Matters. Panels relevant for the law of the sea include B1 (Law of the Sea: Maritime Disputes) and A2 (Law of the Sea: South China Sea).

For more information and registration see here. A preliminary programme is available here.

The 39th Virginia Annual Conference, co-organized by the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law and Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will be held in Shanghai, China from 24-26th June 2015.

For a draft programme, and more information see here.

The Maritime and Oceanic Law Centre (CDMO) of the Law faculty of Nantes is organizing a conference on the topic of the prevention and repression against illegal trafficking at sea (narcotics, human beings, weapons of war, illegal fisheries, piracy and violence, terrorism). The event occurs on 5 and 6 October 2015 at the Centre des Congrès of Nantes and the entrance is free but subject to registration. There will be simultaneous translation of the contents from French. You can find the program here.