Ocean Law and Policy: Twenty Years of Development Under the Unclos Regime

In the years since 1994, when the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) entered into force, the ocean law regime has been profoundly affected by an interplay of new forces in global ocean affairs. Numbered among them are innovations in technology and science, the emergence of intensified piracy and other challenges to maritime security, national, and regional programs. In Ocean Law and Policy: Twenty Years of Development under the UNCLOS Regime, experts from fourteen countries present nineteen papers that provide insightful analyses of these wide-ranging issues that form the emerging new context of UNCLOS as a keystone to a working regime system. Accessible as well as authoritative, this volume offers to general readers as well as academics, policy officials, and legal experts a set of important analyses and provocative insights, forming a major contribution to the literature of ocean studies.

Harry N. Scheiber, is Director of the Law of the Sea Institute and the Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History (Emeritus), School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Carlos Espósito is Professor of Public International Law at University Autónoma of Madrid, and a distinguished fellow in the Law of the Sea Institute in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

James Kraska is Howard S. Levie Professor in the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College, and a distinguished fellow in the Law of the Sea Institute in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

Moon Sang Kwon is Principal Research Scientist in the Ocean Policy Institute, Korea Institute for Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)