Confirmed Keynotes:

Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

David Freestone, Visiting Scholar, George Washington University, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Co-rapporteur ILA Committee International Law and Sea Level Rise

 

Annual NCLOS Conference 2024: “Future Trajectories for the Law of the Sea”

 

5 November

19:00 Social Activity and Dinner for Speakers - Detailed information to follow

6 November

8:00 -> Registration

8:45 -> Welcome Address. Dag Rune Olsen, Rector, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

8:50-> Introduction, Vito De Lucia, Director, Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea

9:00 -> Keynote: Tomas Heidar, “The Law of the Sea Convention as a Living Instrument: The ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion"

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9:50: coffee break

10:00 Panel 1: The COSIS Advisory Opinion

Moderator: Maria das Neves

  • Jianping Guo & Louis Galo McDonough Monroy, “Future Trajectories for International Fisheries Law in Addressing Climate Change: Implications from the COSIS Advisory Opinion”
  • Anemoon Soete, “The potential impact of ITLOS’ recent climate change advisory opinion on uses of the seas in areas beyond national jurisdiction”
  • Philip Steinberg and Romain Chuffart, “The Ocean as Legal Matter in ITLOS Advisory Opinion in Case No. 31 of 21 May 2024”

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Rapporteur: Sofie Quist

11.00 -> coffee beak

11:15 -> Panel 2: Deep seabed Mining

Moderator: Magne Frostad

  • Tajra Smajic, “Climate Change and Deep Seabed Mining: Implications of the COSIS Advisory Opinion”
  • Valentina Chabert, “A contractual approach to environmental protection: the role of the International Seabed Authority in private resource exploitation activities in the Area?”
  • Maria Madalena das Neves, “Changing values and change in law of the sea: A discussion from the perspective of Norway's position on seabed mining”

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Rapporteur: Elza Nico Marriëtte Feijs

12:15: -> coffee beak

12:30 -> Panel 3: Autonomous Vessels

Moderator: Youri van Logchem

  • Hwon LEE, “The strategic deployment of UMVs: Implications for ISR operations and EEZ security jurisdiction”
  • Barbara Stępień, “Challenges of Law Enforcement at Sea in the Era of Autonomous Vessels”

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Rapporteur: Mathilde Morel

13:15 -> Lunch

14:15 -> Panel 4: Maritime Security

Moderator: Jessica Schechinger

  • Laurence Teillet, “Abandoning the crime of piracy for increased justice and accountability”
  • Anh Vo, “Military Contexts and Legal Contests: Reconciling International Laws to Eliminate Grey Zone Tactics at Sea”
  • Chin-Chia Tien, “The Creation of a Grey Current: Disruption of the Law of the Sea Order in the Pacific”

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Rapporteur: Effie Sackey

15:15 -> Coffee Break

15:30 -> Group Picture

15:45 -> Panel 5: Climate Change

Moderator: Eva van der Marel

  • Federica Catonini, “The enhancement of ocean carbon sinks through carbon dioxide removal technologies: regime interaction in climate change and ocean and biodiversity law”
  • Henrik Ringbom, “The Irrelevance of UNCLOS for Regulating Ship-Source Pollution Today - The Case of Climate Change”
  • Matilde Rocca “Climate change and State obligations to implement sustainable uses of marine living resources”

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Rapporteur: Mana Tugend

 16:45 -> End of the Day

 19:30: Conference Dinner

 

7 November

9:00  ->  Keynote: David Freestone, “International Law Dimensions of Sea Level Rise”

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9:50 -> coffee break

10:00 -> Panel 1 Trends and Challenges

Moderator: Ingrid Solstad Andreassen

  • Alexander Lott, “Challenges in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea Straits: A Law of the Sea Perspective”
  • Shiyue Lu, “Revisiting the ‘Unsettled’ South China Sea Case: Recalibrating Settlement Pathways Amid Legalistic Campaigns and Political Realities”
  • Massimo Starita, “Maintaining maritime zones in the face of sea-level rise: An “emerging” customary rule and problems of transitional law”

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Rapporteur: Claudia D'Andrea

11:00 -> coffee break                    

11:15-> Panel 2 BBNJ

Moderator: Endalew Enyew

  • Karen Scott and Neil Craik, “Environmental Impact Assessment under the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement and the Equivalence Exception”
  • Joanna Mossop, “The BBNJ Agreement: Possibilities, Challenges and Lost Opportunities”
  • Rania Djojosugito, “Future Re-Entry of the International Space Station: Obligations Following Article 28 of the BBNJ Agreement on the Impact of Space Activities in Point Nemo”

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Rapporteur: Claudia D’Andrea

12:15-> Coffee break

12:30 -> Panel 3: Ocean and Environment Session

Moderator: Lena Schøning

  • Vonintsoa Rafaly, “Thinking infrastructurally the ocean: toward a new narrative for ocean governance in the Anthropocene Era”
  • Solène Guggisberg, “The protection of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction: the role of non-user States”
  • Laisa Branco, “Fish for Fish, Genes for All? Integrating Fish Genetics into a Global Benefit-Sharing System for Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction”

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Rapporteur: Ifan Aransyach

13.30 -> Lunch

14:30 -> Panel 4: Young Voices on Ocean Futures

Moderator: Jan Solski

  • César Soares de Oliveira, “The Law of the Sea in The 22nd Century: Towards an Ecocentric Future?”
  • Mana Tugend, “A New Trajectory for the Law of the Sea: Towards Relational Oceans”
  • Sofie Elise Quist, “A multispecies justice perspective on the future of food from the sea”

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Rapporteur: Nikos Gkikas

15.30 -> Coffee Break

15.45 -> High-level Panel on Future Trajectories on the Law of the Sea

Moderator: Richard Barnes

Panelists: Joanna Mossop, Karen Scott, David Freestone and Nengye Liu

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Rapporteur: Bastiaan Klerk

17:20 -> Vito De Lucia, Concluding remarks

17:30 -> End of the Conference