Interpretations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by International Courts and Tribunals

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals. It does so from different perspectives, by focusing on the jurisprude

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erpretations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by International Courts and Tribunals

Interpretations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by International Courts and Tribunals

Angela Del Vecchio • Roberto Virzo Editors

Interpretations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by International Courts and Tribunals

Editors Angela Del Vecchio Department of Law LUISS Guido Carli University Rome, Italy

Roberto Virzo Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) University of Sannio Benevento, Italy

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Preface

At the end of the 6th Ordinary Conference of the Association International du Droit de la Mer, “International Tribunals and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”, held at the University of Sannio (Benevento, Italy) on 3–4 November 2016, the speakers accepted our invitation to expand their in-depth presentations into essays, in English or French, for publication in a collective volume. Already during the planning of the conference, it seemed appropriate to us that there should be a dialogue between international law experts on the decisions of international courts and tribunals where questions have been raised about the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Indeed, to date, a significant number of disputes concerning the interpretation or application of UNCLOS have been submitted, by virtue of Part XV of the Convention, to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea