LAW4180

International Law of the Sea I: Marine Resources and Management

(LAW)

Kwame Mfodwo

6 points + Clayton

Synopsis: UNCLOS III - History of Negotiation; Regime implementation; Maritime boundaries; territorial demarcation - Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ); Living Marine Resource Management - fisheries; straddling stocks; Environmental protection - point-source pollution; Non-living Marine Resource Management - Oil and gas; off-shore drilling; artificial islands and installations; the Deep Sea Bed Authority; International Dispute Settlement; International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

Assessment: 4 sequential/cumulative research assignments of 1000 words (each valued as 10%) - Compulsory take-home examination: 60% building on research assignments