Devoted to assessing the state of ocean and coastal governance, knowledge, and management, the Ocean Yearbook provides information in one convenient resource.
As in previous editions, articles provide multidisciplinary expert perspectives on contemporary issues. Each new volume draws on policy studies, international relations, international and comparative law, management, marine sciences, economics, and social sciences. Each volume contains key recent legal and policy instruments.
The Yearbook is a collaborative initiative of the International Ocean Institute (www.ioinst.org) in Malta and the Marine & Environmental Law Institute (www.dal.ca/law/MELAW) at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Alan E. Boyle (19532023): In Memoriam
James Harrison
The International Ocean Institute
Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law
Co-editors Note of Appreciation and Welcome
Scott Coffen-Smout, Moira L. McConnell and Sara L. Seck
Aldo Chircop: a Personal Tribute to Excellence
Proshanto K. Mukherjee
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
Part 1: ITLOS Advisory Opinion Commentaries
The Integrative Approach in the ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion: an
Essay in Honor of Aldo Chircop
Kristin Bartenstein
The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law: a Solid
Legal Foundation for State Obligations on Climate Change
Lisa Benjamin and Cymie Payne
Strengthening the Legal Framework for the Ocean-Climate Nexus? A Commentary
on the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law
Cecilia Engler
The 2024 ITLOS COSIS Advisory Opinion: Delivering Climate Justice for Small
Island States
David Freestone, Payam Akhavan and Catherine Amirfar
Part 2: The Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance
The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context
Michelle Bender, Lydia Slobodian, Kristina M. Gjerde, Philippe Cullet,
Pradeep Singh and Chloe Olsen
The 2022 Canada-Denmark/Greenland Maritime Boundary Agreement: a Model for
Rules-Based International Order and a Stepping Stone to Greater Cooperation
Henning Dobson Fugleberg Knudsen, Michelle Campbell and Kenneth Hųegh
Is the Common Heritage of Mankind Concept Obsolete or Still Relevant?
Michel Morin
To Freeze or Not to Freeze: an Analysis of the Approaches to Maritime
Boundaries amidst Global Sea Level Rise
Asia Murphy
Big Ocean States Leading the Way: Transitioning from Exemplars to Leaders in
Ocean Governance
Jeremy Raguain, Angelique Pouponneau, Tamara Thomas and Sara Tjossem
Part 3: Marine Resource Management and Conservation
Mare Liberum to Mare Curare: the IMOs Prospective Role in Implementing
Area-Based Management Tools for the BBNJ Agreement
Lucas Barsi
West Africas Rising Tide: Shaping the Future of Marine Geoengineering
Governance
Abdul Hafez Mahamah
Navigating the Seas of Contamination: Regulating Forever Chemicals in the
Ocean
Aleke Stöfen-OBrien and Lena Ebbinghoff
Part 4: Shipping
Shipping Emissions Scrubbers and Sea Ice-Breaking in the Arctic: Reflections
at the Interface of Shipping Regulations and the Law of the Sea Regime
Youna Lyons and Sian Prior
Regulating Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Recent Developments and
Challenges
Sabrina Hasan
Policy Response to COVID-19 in Global Shipping: Systematic Review and
Analogical Application
Lamin Jawara and Tafsir Matin Johansson
New Amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: Linkages to Pandemic
Lessons
Desai Shan, Cory Ochs and Evan G. MacKenzie
Should Canada Allow Autonomous Ships in its Coastal Waters?International
Context and Legal Implications
Yannick Suazo
Part 5: Maritime Crime and Security
Gulf of Guinea Piracy: Analysis of Threats, Dynamics and Responses
Kamal-Deen Ali and Emmanuel Kwabena Koomson
The Revamped EU Environmental Crime Directive and the Maritime Sector: Real
Teeth or Window Dressing?
Michael Tsimplis
Humanitarian Missions at Sea: Lessons from the Deployment of Indonesias
Military Hospital Ship for Humanitarian Aid to Palestinians in the Gaza
Conflict
Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga and Lowell Bautista
Part 6: Book Reviews
Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu, eds., Hazardous Seas: A
Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning
Cherdsak Virapat, Ph.D.
Neil Craik, Tara Davenport and Ruth Mackenzie, Liability for Environmental
Harm to the Global Commons
Elizabeth M. De Santo
Vito De Lucia, Alex Oude Elferink and Lan Ngoc Nguyen, eds., International
Law and Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Reflections on Justice,
Space, Knowledge and Power
Olga Koubrak, Ph.D.
Endalew Lijalem Enyew, Indigenous Peoples, Marine Space and Resources, and
International Law: The Interaction between International Human Rights Law and
the Law of the Sea
Sara L. Seck
Malcolm D. Evans and Reece Lewis, Islands, Law and Context: The Treatment of
Islands in International Law
Jay L. Batongbacal, J.S.D.
Nicola Ferri, Conflicts over the Conservation of Marine Living Resources:
Third States, Governance, Fragmentation and other recurring issues in
International Law
Fred Kingston
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Sea Level: A History
Charles T. OReilly
Dawoon Jung, The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention and the Regulation of
Offshore Renewable Energy Activities within National Jurisdiction
Alexander Severance
Natalie Klein and Kate Parlett, Judging the Law of the Sea
Arron N. Honniball, Ph.D.
James Kraska, Ronįn Long and Myron H. Nordquist, eds., Peaceful Maritime
Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region
Ying Tan
Lan Ngoc Nguyen, The Development of the Law of the Sea by UNCLOS Dispute
Settlement Bodies
Nong Hong
Kristoffer Svendsen, Liability and Compensation for Offshore Oil Pollution
Damage in the Arctic. Comparing Norwegian and Russian Law
Lars Rosenberg Overby
Yoshifumi Tanaka, Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime
Delimitation
Clive Schofield
Anna von Rebay, The Designation of Marine Protected Areas: A Legal
Obligation
Vu Hai Dang, JSD
Appendices
Annual Report of the International Ocean Institute
Report of the International Ocean Institute, 2023
Mahindokht Faghfouri
Selected Documents and Proceedings
Oceans and the Law of the Sea Report of the Secretary-General, 19 March
2024
Oceans and the Law of the Sea Report of the Secretary-General, 6 September
2024
United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea Report of the Thirty-Fourth
Meeting of States Parties, 1014 June 2024
Report on the Work of the United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative
Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea at Its Twenty-Fourth Meeting, 1821
June 2024
(Signed) Elina Kalkku
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas
beyond National Jurisdiction
2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships
Index
Edited by Scott Coffen-Smout, Dalhousie University, Patrķcia Galvćo Ferreira, Dalhousie University, Moira McConnell, Dalhousie University and Sara L. Seck, Dalhousie University
