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UN Tribunal Awards $14M in Compensation for 2022 Seizure of VLCC off Africa

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, a UN body for settling international maritime disputes, read out its verdict in the 2022 case of th...

High Seas Treaty Takes Force: What You Need to Know

Roughly two thirds of the ocean lies outside of any country’s jurisdiction. This area, encompassing about half of the Earth’s total surface, is known as the “high seas.” The high s...

ICJ opens oral hearings as Guyana asks court to affirm century-old boundary with Venezuela

The International Court of Justice opened oral hearings Monday on the merits of a territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region, with Guyana asking the...

Where the Law Gets Thin: The Jurisdictional Gap Pirates Exploit

UNCLOS’s piracy provisions codified a model rooted in older piracy patterns that don’t match today’s near-shore threat. Today, piracy is a recurring, adaptive threat. The post Wher...

Announcements: Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Summer School; Law Stories Event; CfS Cambridge International Law Jou...

1. Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Training School. The first BlueRights training school ‘Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Prot...

Every state cites international law. Not everyone means the same thing by it.

A response to Bhavan Jaipragas, “Obsessed? A joint fixation on maritime rules is in Asean’s shared interest” (The Straits Times, 29 April…Continue reading on Medium »

Het Internationaal Gerechtshof (80) komt om in het werk. ‘Maar het is dít of de wet van de jungle’

Beyond the Blockaded Area: Interdicting Iranian Oil and the Limits of Existing Maritime Legal Frameworks

Recent efforts by the United States to interdict Iranian oil shipments in distant waters have extended well beyond the Persian Gulf. These operations have included the interception...

OOCL Seeks to Overturn $45M Award Alleging FMC Process is Unconstitutional

 Lawyers for Orient Overseas Container Line filed suit in U.S. District Court on May 5, challenging the Federal Maritime Commission’s adjudication pro...

At high seas treaty summit, a dispute over fisheries managers’ role in conservation

For conservationists, one of the major achievements of the high seas treaty was that it created a means to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) in international waters. High sea...