Search: UNCLOS
25 Sep What’s the Object and Purpose of the Arms Trade Treaty?
I’ve been surprised how quiet the Obama Administration has been in terms of treaty actions in its 5 years in office — you can pretty much count on one hand the number of treaties that have gone through the Senate Advice and Consent process (and nothing at all has happened this Congress). Now, some of the blame for this certainly rests with a recalcitrant (some might say new-sovereigntist) minority of U.S. Senators (see, e.g., UNCLOS and the UN Disabilities Convention fights). Still, the reality of the last few years has...24 Sep Russia May Charge Greenpeace Activists with Piracy; Will They Cite the Ninth Circuit? (Updated)
...Fordham University Law School. “That requires stealing things and the intention of stealing things.” But current definitions of piracy don’t require an intention for financial enrichment. Rather, as we noted back in February when the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against anti-whaling protestors for attacking Japanese whalers, UNCLOS requires only that the attackers be acting for “private ends.” As Kevin argued in his post, there is reason to believe that “private ends” does not include “politically motivated” acts (although Eugene Kontorovich has a good rebuttal of...
28 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: A Micronation on the Big Screen – Using Cinema in Class for Teaching International Law
...zones, their limits back in 1968 and now after UNCLOS, the application of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone of 1958 (ratified by Italy in 1964), the regime of the high seas, and the nature and status of artificial islands (for he thought of a sand island but found it technically impossible so he finally made it of steel). —Can you imagine? Our own island, where we can do what the hell we want. Where we can live by our own rules. That’s why Giorgio and...27 Jul Events & Announcements: July 27, 2014
...international two-day conference at the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The conference, organized in partnership with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Université catholique de Louvain-Mons (UCL-Mons) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will bring together expert scholars from within and without Europe, as well as practitioners and civil servants (e.g., ITLOS, International Seabed Authority, FAO). Four different panels will address the importance of UNCLOS for the maintenance of international peace and security; its importance for...17 Nov Weekend Roundup: November 10 – 16, 2012
...but needs input from institutional law. Catherine Brölmann’s post also discussed the combination of contractual and institutional elements in constitutive treaties. Geir and Catherine’s posts led Duncan Hollis to reflect on how treaty law can lead to “secondary fragmentation” – fragmentation in the “rules on rules”. Christian Tams argued that this “fragmentation” indicates the limits of general treaty law which often only provides residual rules or no rules at all. In our regular posts, Julian Ku questioned whether Argentina’s claim under the UNCLOS against the seizure of its naval training...