PLENARY 7 - GOVERNING INTERNATIONAL SPACES: LESSONS FROM ANTARCTICA

Common Interests in the Oceans

Summary

Oceans (high seas, deep ocean floor and its subsoil) differ fundamentally from territories or spaces under national jurisdiction. Whereas the management of the latter rest in the responsibility of the given State activities in the former is governed by international law, implemented and enforced by individual States or organs of the community of States as the case may be. It is to be used assumed from this very fact that community interests in the proper management and preservation of the oceans are prevailing. This brief presentation will identify the expression of common interests in the United Nations Convention in the Law of the Sea and trace the relevance of the provisions in question for the legal regime governing the oceans, including the seabed.

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Chair

Professor Oran Young Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara and Chair of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, United States

Speakers

Professor Armel Kerrest Head, Department of Public Law, University of Western Brittany, France
Dr. Robert Chen Director, Center for International Earth System Information Network at Columbia University; Secretary General, Committee on Data for Science and Technology, United States
Rüdiger Wolfrum Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Former President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Germany

Schedule

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