This book examines the strength and limit of UNCLOS in regulating "modern" ocean data collection activities, and proposes possible regulatory arrangements that fill the gaps for regulation of the said activities, if any, in the Convention.

The present analysis examines the legal framework for marine scientific research with a focus on research platforms

Science, Technology, and New Challenges to Ocean Law offers fresh perspectives on a set of vital issues in the field of ocean law and policy. Since the early period of the industrial revolution, successive waves of revolutionary scientific discoveries and technological innovations have intensified the global population’s exploitation of ocean and coastal resources. In this volume, several leading authorities in the field address major dimensions of the interface of science, technology and ocean law—both historically and in current-day perspective—and emergent challenges in legal ordering of ocean uses for sustainability and equitability. Among the topics that are analysed in these readable, accessible papers are ecosystem approaches to resource management, the historic interplay of science and military concerns, the place of science in dispute-settlement processes, the varied human uses of the seabed, the roles in ocean governance of indigenous peoples, legal issues in fisheries management and conservation, and special regional problems of the Arctic, the Bering Strait, the South China Sea, and the eastern Mediterranean. The urgent importance of the subjects addressed here, together with the variety of disciplinary approaches deployed by the authors, enhance the value of this book’s unique contribution to the literature of ocean studies.

This book, An International Regime for Marine Scientific Research provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary study of the International Regime for Marine Scientific Research. Montserrat examines lingering North-South disagreements on the scope of regulation-how these are exacerbated by unprecedented marine science, methodology and technological developments-and explores means to encourage greater MSR cooperation and negotiation. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

This volume examines the role of law and science in ocean management. Topics addressed include the ecosystems approach to fisheries management, ocean exploration, marine science capacity building, marine science and policy, marine science and law, as well as biological diversity, genetic resources and the law of the sea. The book contains a foreword by the President of Ireland and keynote addresses by the European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs; the Assistant Director of UNESCO and Executive Secretary of the International Oceanographic Commission; as well as the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority. The remainder of the volume contains comprehensive papers from jurists, scholars, diplomats and scientists from over 20 countries and international organisations. The collection contains a CD which provides visual and other material not contained in the primary text, including the text of the UN Law of the Sea Convention and additional documents, the PowerPoint presentations, and an index to the six-volume series United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary This book contains the proceedings from the thirtieth annual conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, which marked the tenth anniversary of Ireland’s ratification of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

One of the most creative innovations of the international diplomatic community in the 20th century was its invention of the international regime, a wrote Douglas M. Johnston in his last major work published posthumously (The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena, Nijhoff, 2008). While regimes often provide order and certainty and a consequent reduction in disputes and misunderstandings, regimes are driven by specific concerns. With diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives, the distinguished contributors to this tribute follow a long tradition of scholarly inquiry into the governance, creation, operation, viability and maintenance of international regimes. Their contributions on ocean and environmental regimes as diverse as fisheries, ocean dumping, maritime security, seafarersa (TM) rights, or enhancement of marine environmental protection attest to the depth to which modern international law and the underlying international relations have been transformed into an international law of structured cooperation. This book includes biographical and bibliographic notes on Douglas M. Johnston