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Resource Access Under the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

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The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is one of the options for states that ratified the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) to settle their disputes peacefully through a third party (LOSC, Art. 287(1)(a)). Other international conventions than the LOSC can also refer to the ITLOS as the preferred third party for dispute settlement as long as such an agreement relates to the purposes of the LOSC (LOSC, Art. 288(2)). So far, the ITLOS – that is, the full Tribunal – has only dealt directly with access to resources in cases related to fisheries. Disputes concerning the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar (ITLOS 2012) and the Arctic Sunrise (ITLOS 2013) clearly affected the oil and gas industry; however, the Tribunal did not decide on the access to those resources explicitly.

One particular type of case has exclusively ended up at the ITLOS. A coastal state can arrest vessels that violate its laws and regulations concerning...

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  1. Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, Faculty of Law, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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van Doorn, E. (2020). Resource Access Under the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In: Kocsis, M. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_19-1

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