Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea:Survey for 2015 - Part i

• Published in: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
• Main Author: Churchill, Robin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: arrest and detention of ships; dispute settlement; fisheries; International Court of Justice (ICJ); International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS); maritime boundary delimitation; provisional measures; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1910; name=Oceanography; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305; name=Geography; Planning and Development; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2300; name=General Environmental Science; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2308; name=Management; Monitoring; Policy and Law; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3308; name=Law; Arctic; Law of the Sea
• Online Access: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/9304220f-c724-4f2b-b0d8-fdaf29f19801; https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-12341420; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85005847620&partnerID=8YFLogxK

This is the latest in a series of annual surveys reviewing dispute settlement in the law of the sea, both under the un Convention on the Law of the Sea and outside the framework of the Convention, and covering developments in 2015. During the year the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea gave an advisory opinion concerning fisheries questions in the exclusive economic zone and made two orders of provisional measures. Annex vii arbitral tribunals delivered awards on the merits in the Chagos Marine Protected Area and Arctic Sunrise cases, and the tribunal in the Philippines v. China case gave an award on jurisdiction and admissibility. There were also a number of less significant developments during the year.