Three Legal Constraints on U.S. Unilateral Deep-Sea Mining: The ISA’s Objective International Personality and Obligations of Cooperation and Due Regard (Part II) – International Objective Personality of the ISA
[Dr Ekaterina Antsygina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, working on the deep-sea mining on the Norwegian continental shelf.] As discussed in Part I, the provisions on common management through the ISA constitutes a foundational element of the legal regime governing the Area. Disregarding...