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03 Jun

[Holly Leung is a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong] In a previously published piece responding to a legal opinion by ASCOMARE, Cavalcanti de Mello Filho illuminates on the question of whether coastal States may interrupt foreign vessels passing through their territorial seas where such vessels are transporting military material with the reasonable belief that such military material could...

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01 May

[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is a Research Associate (Ocean Law and Policy) at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore] On 11 March 2025, ASCOMARE authored a legal opinion commissioned by the Palestinian BDS National Committee, answering the above question in the affirmative. The piece is well-written and insightful, but its findings are also innovative and perhaps too...

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20 Jun

[Luciana Maulida holds an LLM (Environmental Law) from Melbourne Law School and is an incoming PhD student at King's College London, focusing on the intersection of international law and climate change] The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS or the Tribunal) issued a landmark unanimous Advisory Opinion (the Opinion) on climate change, on 21 May 2024. The Opinion addressed states' obligations under...

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16 Aug

[Keshav Somani is as an Associate with the Dispute Resolution team of S&R Associates, New Delhi] Introduction The International Court of Justice on July 13, 2023, delivered its judgment in the case concerning Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia beyond 200 Nautical Miles from the Nicaraguan Coast (Nicaragua v. Colombia). The Court concluded by thirteen votes...

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