Conference on Oceans Law & Policy:Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region

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Conference on Oceans Law & Policy:Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region

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Program

Opening

Introduction

• Myron Nordquist

  

  Distinguished Fellow, Stockton Center for International Law, US Naval War College

  Dr. Myron H. Nordquist is the Distinguished Fellow at the United States Naval War College. His professional career includes government service, private law practice and academia. He attended Oregon State University on an NROTC scholarship and was named its First Distinguished Alumni. He was commissioned in the United States Marine Corps and his infantry battalion made the initial landing at Chu Lai, Vietnam, in early 1965. Nordquist earned his first law degree at California Western University and he was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship for post-graduate law studies at Cambridge University. In 1970, he accepted an attorney-advisor position in the Office of Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. While serving at the State Department, Nordquist was named Office Director and Legislative Counsel of the NSC Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea on the staff of the Deputy Secretary of State. In 1978, he went into private practice in Washington, DC while engaging in adjunct law teaching at George Washington, American and the University of Virginia Law Schools. Nordquist was named Deputy General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force in 1990, where he subsequently served as Acting General Counsel prior to joining the law faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was a tenured Professor of Law at the Academy and during the academic year 1995-96 was the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the Naval War College. In 1999, Nordquist served as General Counsel to his home state U.S. Senator Conrad Burns and began a formal affiliation with the UVA Law School, where he had earned an SJD. Over his career Nordquist authored or edited more than 70 books and published numerous articles and other scholarly works, including the often cited eight-volume Virginia Commentary on the Law of the Sea.

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• James Kraska

  

  Chairman and Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law, US Naval War College

  James Kraska is Chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law in the Stockton Center for International Law at the Naval War College and Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. He has served as Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of the Philippines and Visiting Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University. He previously was Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University Marine Laboratory and Chief of Naval Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles and is Editor-in-Chief of International Law Studies and the treatise, Benedict on Admiralty: International Maritime Law. He is also a Permanent Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Kraska served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, with multiple tours of duty in Japan and the Pentagon.

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• Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry

  

  President, World Maritime University

  With over three decades of professional and academic experience, Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, an international lawyer, is a global leader on maritime law, labour standards and labour law, and law of international organizations. She is a distinguished academic in the field of international law and an international advocate for sustainability and innovation.

  Appointed by the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Dr. Doumbia-Henry became the seventh President of the World Maritime University (WMU), a university established within the framework of the IMO. She is the first woman President and the first President from a developing country. As the Chief Executive Officer of WMU, she oversees and directs the operations and administration of the University, positioning it as the global centre of excellence in maritime and ocean education, research and capacity building, taking on board the UNSDGs. Dr. Doumbia-Henry is also a Panel Member for the Rapid Response Labour Mechanism of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

  Prior to joining WMU, Dr. Doumbia-Henry held various senior positions at the International Labour Organization (ILO), another specialized agency of the United Nations. During her tenure as Director of the International Labour Standards Department (first woman Director since the establishment of the ILO in 1919), Dr. Doumbia-Henry was responsible for the ILO’s international labour standards policy and for the ILO’s supervisory bodies and procedures governing international labour standards. She led the department to effectively assist the ILO member States on the implementation of their international obligations (more than 400 Conventions and Recommendations) including through technical assistance, advice, research and capacity building programmes. She spearheaded the development of the innovative and historic ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006 which consolidated 68 international labour instruments. The MLC, 2006 as amended has been ratified to date by 97 member States to date representing 91% of the world gross tonnage of ships. Dr. Doumbia-Henry also led the ILO’s participation in a number of IMO/ILO interagency collaborations on several issues of common interest, including the Joint IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Groups on Fair Treatment of Seafarers and on Liability and Compensation regarding Claims for Death, Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers.

  Dr. Doumbia-Henry began her career at the University of the West Indies, Barbados, as lecturer in law and later worked at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands and the World Bank. Dr. Doumbia-Henry has dual Dominican and Swiss nationality. Her qualifications include Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor, a PhD and LLM from the University of Geneva, and a LLM and LLB from the University of West Indies. She has published extensively on a wide range of international law subjects. Dr. Doumbia-Henry is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

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• Kenichiro Sasae

  

  President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs

  Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues. He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

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• Hide Sakaguchi

  

  President of the Ocean Policy Research Institute, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF)

  Ocean Policy Research Institute of The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
  Dr Hide Sakaguchi is President of the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Prior to joining OPRI in 2021, he served as Research Associate at Kobe University, Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO of Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, and Executive Director of JAMSTEC. Dr Sakaguchi is specialized in Computer Science, Geoscience, and Engineering. He received a PhD from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University in 1995.

  BRIEF CAREER

  2018-2021 Executive Director of JAMSTEC
  2015-2018 Assistant Executive Director of JAMSTEC
  2014-2018 Director of the Department of Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology (MAT), JAMSTEC
  2008-2014 Program Director of the Institute for Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE), JAMSTEC
  2003-2004 Group Leader of IFREE, JAMSTEC
  2002-2003 Adjunct Professor at Earthquake Research Inst. University of Tokyo
  2000-2002 Principal Research Scientist of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
  1998-2000 Research Scientist at Division of Exploration and Mining of CSIRO
  1991-1998 Research Associate, Department of Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University

  EDUCATION

  Oct. 1995 PhD at the Graduate School of Agriculture, KYOTO University (Thesis tile: Pattern Formation in Granular Media)
  Mar. 1987 M.S. in Agricultural Engineering
  Mar. 1985 B.S. in Agricultural Engineering

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Keynote Speech

• Shunji Yanai

  

  Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

  Born in Tokyo in 1937.

  Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (President 2011-2014); and Board Director, Japan Investment Advisor Co., Ltd.

  After having studied law at the University of Tokyo, he joined the Japanese Foreign Service in 1961 and held various positions including Consul General in San Francisco, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Executive Secretary of the Prime Minister’s PKO Office, Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Deputy-Foreign Minister, Vice-Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States.

  Following retirement from the Foreign Service, Professor of Law until 2007 at Waseda University and Chuo University in Tokyo; Board Director, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation until 2012; and the Chairman of the Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security until 2014.

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• Michael Lodge

  

  Secretary-General, ISA

  Mr. Michael W Lodge of the United Kingdom was elected Secretary-General on 21 July 2016 at the Authority's 22nd Session at its headquarters in Kingston for a 4-year term beginning 1 January 2017. He was Deputy to the Secretary-General prior to his election.

  Michael W. Lodge is a British national. He received his LLB from the University of East Anglia, and has an MSc in marine policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a barrister of Gray’s Inn, London. Prior to his election as Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority in July 2016, he had served as Deputy to the Secretary-General and Legal Counsel. Other professional experiences include serving as Legal Counsel to the ISA (1996-2003); Counsellor to the Round Table on Sustainable Development, OECD (2004-2007); Legal Counsel to the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (1991-1995). He has also held appointments as a Visiting Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford (2012-2013), an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, London (2007) and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Oceans (2011-2016).

  With 28 years of experience as a public international lawyer, Michael Lodge has a strong background in the field of law of the sea as well as ten years’ judicial experience in the UK and South Pacific. He spent many years living and working in the South Pacific and was one of the lead negotiators for the South Pacific Island States of the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement. He has also worked as a consultant on fisheries, environmental and international law in Europe, Asia, Eastern Europe, the South Pacific and Africa.

  With extensive knowledge of the United Nations and other international organisations, Michael Lodge has facilitated high-level multilateral and bilateral negotiations at international and regional level. His significant achievements include his pivotal role in the ISA from its inception in 1996 and in helping to create and implement the first international regulatory regime for seabed mining. He also contributed to the future security of global fish stocks by leading the process to create the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission from concept to its establishment as the largest regional fisheries management organization in the world, also serving as the interim executive director of the Commission. He was instrumental in advising the Pew Charitable Trusts on their support for the Global Ocean Commission and also acted as an adviser to the Commission on international law of the sea and ocean policy.

  Mr Lodge has published and lectured extensively on the international law of the sea, with over 25 published books and articles on law of the sea, oceans policy and related issues.

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• Rüdiger Wolfrum

  

  Head of Projects, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law

  Born 13 December 1941 in Berlin, Professor for national public law and international public law at the law faculties of the Universities of Mainz (1982), Kiel (1982-1993) and Heidelberg (1993-2012); Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (1993-2012); Managing Director at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg (2013-2020). Vice-President of the German Research Foundation (1996-2002); Vice-President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences (2002-2006); Membre de l’Institut de Droit International (since 2007); Manley O. Hudson Medal, American Society of International Law, 2020.

  Judicial experience
  Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1996-2017); re-elected in May 1999 and in June 2008; Vice-President (1996-1999), President (2005-2008);

  Member of the International Environmental Board of Arbitration, The Hague (since 2001); Member of the Arbitration Panel on Antarctica (since 2017);

  Member or Presiding Arbitrator or conciliator of several international arbitral tribunals or a conciliation commission:
  Chagos Archipelago (Mauritius v. United Kingdom); South China Sea (Philippines v. China); Presiding Arbitrator of the Arbitral Tribunal concerning the delimitation of the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh v. India); Member of the Conciliation Commission Timor-Leste/Australia (2016-2018); Presiding Arbitrator in the matter of Arbitration under the Agreements between the Government of the Republic of Finland and the Arab Republic of Egypt on the Promotion and Protection of Investments respectively dated 5 May 1980 and 3 March 2004 and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 1976 (Bahgat v. Republic of Egypt); Presiding Arbitrator in the Dispute Fynerdale Holdings B.V v. Czech Republic; Arbitrator in the Dispute Concerning the Detention of Ukrainian Vessels, Ukraine v. Russia.

  Publications
  Numerous publications on general international law, United Nations law, human rights, the law of the sea, international trade law, environmental law and on international dispute settlement. Publications also on national and comparative public law, in particular constitutional law.

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Policy Speech

• IMADA Katsuhiko

  

  Director, Law of the Sea Division, International Legal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

  March 1999	Bachelor of Law from the University of Tokyo
  April 1999	Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  December 2012	Principal Deputy Director, South America Division, Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau
  August 2015	First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
  April 2016	Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
  July 2018	Senior Coordinator, Policy Coordination Division, Foreign Policy Bureau
  April 2020	Director, Law of the Sea Division, International Legal Affairs Bureau

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5/10 Mon

Parallel Sessions A

Panel 1: Baselines and Archipelagic States

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• JST 20:00 - 21:40
• EDT 7:00 - 8:40
• CEST 13:00 - 14:40

Moderator

• Masaharu Yanagihara

  

  Professor, The Open University of Japan

  Masaharu Yanagihara is professor of public international law at the Open University of Japan. Yanagihara is working at several academic societies: President, Japanese Society of International Law (2009-2012); Director of Planning Committee, Japan Branch, International Law Association (since 2014). His main recent publications in English are as follows: “Significance of the History of the Law of Nations in Europe and East Asia,” Recueil des cours 371(2015), pp.273-435; “‘Shioki (Control),’ ‘Fuyo (Dependency),’ and Sovereignty,” A. Roberts et al. (eds.), Comparative International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp.141-157.

Speakers

• Clive Schofield

  

  Professor, Head of Research, WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute

  Professor Clive Schofield is Head of Research at the Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, a Visiting Professor with the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at the Law School of the University of California Berkeley and teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. His research interests relate to international boundaries and particularly maritime boundary delimitation and marine jurisdictional issues on which he has published over 200 scholarly publications. Clive is an International Hydrographic Office (IHO)-nominated Observer on the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS) and is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. He has also been actively involved in the peaceful settlement of boundary and territory disputes by providing advice to governments engaged in boundary negotiations and in dispute settlement.

  David Freestone

  

  Professor, George Washington University Law School

  Professor David Freestone is a Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. teaching International Climate Change Law. He is also the Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission. He is the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (now in its 36th year). From 1996-2008 he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, first as Chief Counsel of the environment and international law practice group, and then as Deputy General Counsel/Senior Adviser. He is the author/editor of some 30 books and more than 200 academic articles. His books include International Law and Sea Level Rise. (Brill, 2019) with Davor Vidas and Jane McAdam; Conserving Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (Ed., Brill, 2019); The World Bank and Sustainable Development – Legal Essays (Nijhoff, 2012); Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: (ed., with Charlotte Streck, OUP 2009). In 2008 he was awarded the Elizabeth Haub Gold Medal for Environmental Law.

  “Archipelagic States and Sea Level Rise: Risks and Potential Response Options”

• Dai Tamada

  

  Professor, Kobe University

  Dai Tamada is Professor of International Law at Graduate School of Law, Kobe University. He holds M.A. (Kyoto University 2000) and Ph.D. (Kyoto University 2014). His research areas cover international dispute settlement, international investment law, the law of treaties, and the law of the sea. He has been committee member in several Government organs, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and Ministry of Justice (MOJ) of Japan. His recent publications include Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada (eds.), Whaling in the Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), and Dai Tamada and Keyuan Zou (eds.), Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: State Practice of China and Japan (Springer, April 2021).

  “Straight or Archipelagic Baseline: with respect to Offshore Archipelago”

• Henry S. Bensurto, Jr

  

  Consul General of the Philippines in San Francisco

  Mr. Henry S. Bensurto Jr. is the former Philippine Consul General to San Francisco, USA.

  A career diplomat, lawyer, teacher and former student activist, Mr. Bensurto is one of the Philippines' leading experts on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and West Philippine Sea (WPS)/South China Sea (SCS) issue.

  Mr. Bensurto served as Assistant Secretary of the West Philippine Sea Center in the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary-General of the Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs, a Cabinet-level coordinating body on the Law of the Sea and other maritime issues.

  Mr. Bensurto initially conceptualized ZOPFFC or, Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship and Cooperation in 2009 as a politico-legal framework for resolving and managing disputes in the SCS which became the core of Philippine engagement with ASEAN and China beginning in 2010. ZOPFFC's core principles later on formed part of the overall Philippine Legal Approach in the country's 2013 arbitration case against China. The Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague ruled on 12 July 2016 in favor of the Philippines against China.

  Mr. Bensurto's "distinguished and successful involvement in the Philippine's suit against China before the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague," has earned him the 2016 Torch Bearer Award from the Philippine-American Press Club-USA.

  For his work on ZOPFFC and the protection of the WPS, Mr. Bensurto received the Presidential Award from President Benigno S. Aquino Ill in 2013. He likewise received a Presidential Award from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2010 for helping shepherd the passage of the Philippine Archipelagic Baselines Law in 2009. He also helped shepherd the submission of the Philippine Extended Continental Shelf over the Benham Rise before the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

  Mr. Bensurto has been a speaker on the UNCLOS and South China Sea issues in various domestic and international fora. He has also written various articles on international law.

  In 2017, Mr. Bensurto was awarded the most distinguished alumnus on Public Service and Good Governance by the University of the Philippines (UP). In the same year, Mr. Bensurto was also given recognition with Malate Catholic School's Alumni 100% Malatean Award for his outstanding achievements and valuable contribution to the community.
  Mr. Bensurto is an alumnus of the University of the Philippines, having earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (minor in Economics) in 1985 and the San Beda College of Law, where he finished law in 1990. He pursued further Graduate Studies overseas and finished (Foreign Service Programme) from Oxford University in 1996 with a Distinction in Public International Law. He has a Diploma on the Law of the Sea at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Rhodes, Greece; and a Certificate on National Security at the Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law, at Charlottesville, VA. He also attended shot-term courses on International Trade Law and Human Rights Law at the Georgetown Law Center and American University in Washington DC.

  He is married to Ms. Ann Mariza Sanchez-Bensurto, and has a son, Henry Matthew Bensurto.

  “Archipelago Concept and Straight Baselines: China’s Attempt to Unilaterally Change the Status Quo in the South China Sea?”

• Richard Barnes

  

  Professor, University of Hull

  Richard Barnes is Professor of International Law at the University of Lincoln. He authored Property Rights and Natural Resources (2009). Recent publications include Frontiers in International Environmental Law. Oceans and Climate. Essays in Honour of David Freestone (2021, with Ronan Long), the Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (2020, with Jan McDonald and Jeff McGee), and The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Living Instrument (2016, with Jill Barrett). Professor Barnes is Current Legal Developments Editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law. He has advised a range of public and private bodies, including the WWF, the European Parliament, and the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and appeared on numerous occasions before Parliamentary committees to provide expert evidence on fisheries law.

  “Revisiting the Legal Status of Archipelagos from First Principles”

Panel 2: Navigation Rights/Law Enforcement

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Moderator

• Jin-Hyun Paik

  

  Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

  Jin-Hyun Paik is Professor of International Law at Seoul National University in Korea and was Dean of its Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS). He is also Judge of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany since 2009 and served as its President from 2017 to 2020. He is currently President of the Special Chamber of ITLOS in the case concerning the Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Judge Paik was Arbitrator in the “Enrica Lexie” Incident Case(Italy v. India) at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). He currently serves as President of the Arbitral Tribunal in Dispute concerning Coastal State’s Rights in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait (Ukraine v. the Russian Federation).

  Professor Paik has specialized in international law and organization, law of the sea, and international dispute settlement. Over the past forty years, he has taught and conducted research in the fields of international law and relation in various places around the world. He also represented Korea in many international conferences and negotiations, including the United Nations General Assembly. Professor Paik is also lecturer for the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. He has been active in promoting and disseminating international law, in particular to audiences in developing countries.

  In 2015, Judge Paik was elected to the Institut de Droit International. He also served as President of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) from 2015 to 2017. He received Dr. iuris honoris causa on the occasion of the centennial of University of Hamburg in 2019. Professor Paik has written and edited over 130 articles and several books on international law and politics, law of the sea and Korea’s foreign and security policies, the latest of which includes Regions, Institutions and the Law of the Sea (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013).

Speakers

• David Goddard

  

  Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  Following his graduation from King’s College, Cambridge, Dr David Goddard joined the Royal Navy as a logistics officer, serving initially as a submariner. Having been selected for legal training, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Lincoln’s Inn in 2009 and completed his pupillage at the Chambers of Anthony Berry QC, 9 Bedford Row. Amongst his subsequent assignments, he served as an operational legal adviser in Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as at the NATO Maritime HQ at Northwood, UK, and spent two years as a Military Professor at the US Naval War College’s Stockton Center for International Law. He completed his Master’s degree in international human rights law at the University of Oxford, and was awarded his PhD by the University of Exeter for a thesis titled ‘The Application of International Human Rights Law to Maritime Security Operations’. On leaving the Royal Navy, he joined the UK Civil Service and is currently working as an Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

  “The Applicability of Human Rights Treaties in Maritime Law Enforcement”

• Robert Beckman

  

  Emeritus Professor, National University of Singapore

  Robert Beckman is an Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has been with NUS for more than 40 years, and has taught various courses in public international law. He has specialized in Ocean Law and Policy and in the International Regulation of Shipping, and he currently teaches a course on International Regulation of the Global Commons. Prof Beckman was the founding Director of the Centre for International Law (CIL), a university-level research institute at NUS, and he is currently the head of CIL’s Ocean Law & Policy Programme. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Maritime Security Programme of the Institute for Defence & Strategic Studies (IDSS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Prof Beckman is a member of the Governing Board of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy. He has a special interest in ocean law and policy issues in Southeast Asia, including the maritime disputes in the South China Sea. In 2020 Prof Beckman was nominated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam to the List of Arbitrators under Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Professor Beckman did his first degree and JD degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his LLM at Harvard Law School.

  “Combatting International Maritime Crimes in Southeast Asia”

• David Letts

  

  Associate Professor, Australian National University

  David Letts is Director of the Centre for Military and Security Law, at the Australian National University College of Law, and he also holds an academic appointment at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. Prior to academic life, David served in the Royal Australian Navy retiring as a Commodore (1-star). David’s research interests centre upon the application of legal regimes to military operations, and he has published academic articles and book chapters on topics including the law of the sea, the law of naval warfare, international humanitarian law, military justice and the legal issues that arise on peacekeeping operations. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, Italy.

  “Navigation Rights and Law Enforcement: An Australian Perspective”

• Kyo Arai

  

  Professor, Doshisha University

  Professor of International Law, at the Graduate School and the Faculty of Law, Doshisha University, Kyoto, since 2007. He received LL.M, from Graduate School of Law, Doshisha University in 1995. Areas of his academic interests are: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Naval Warfare, and International Criminal Law．He has contributed to many books and journals including Japanese Yearbook of International Law, and Journal of International Law and Diplomacy (published by the Japanese Society of International Law) and Japanese Yearbook of International Law. His latest publications in English include "Between Consented and Un-Contested Occupation" Israel Law Review Vol.51, No.3 (2018), to which the Israel Law Review Prize 2018 was awarded. He has cooperated with the Regional Delegate of the ICRC for the Southeast Asia and the Tokyo Office for many years. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, the University of Cambridge, 2002-2003.

  “Do We Still Need The 'Expansionist/Revisionist' Theory of Self-Defence at Sea?”

5/11 Tue

Parallel Sessions B

Panel 3: Arctic Shipping

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• JST 19:30 - 21:10
• EDT 6:30 - 8:10
• CEST 12:30 - 14:10

Moderator

• Douglas Burnett

  

  Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  Douglas Burnett is the Senior Operations and Policy Member with the Maritime Situational Awareness Program at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He served as the Chief Counsel and Acting Maritime Administrator of the Maritime Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation (2017-2021). Mr. Burnett has practiced maritime law his entire career, including nine years in New York City with the transportation, shipping and logistics practice group of the law firm of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP. His over three decades of private practice include some sixty-four reported cases, focused on maritime litigation and arbitration involving charter parties, bills of lading, maritime casualties, and general maritime and international law of the sea. His experience includes projects for marine terminals, pipelines, deep water ports, off-shore wind, and submarine power and telecom cables. He also acted as the international legal advisor for the International Cable Protection Committee for twenty years.

  He is co-editor and co- author of Submarine Cables, the Handbook of Law and Policy (2014), Submarine Cables and Deep Seabed Mining, Advancing Common Interests and Addressing UNCLOS “Due Regard” Obligations (International Seabed Authority Technical Publication No. 14) (2015), and Submarine Cables and Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction-The Cloud Is Beneath the Sea (2017). Additionally, he has also written thirty-eight articles on maritime law and international law of the sea. His most recent article “Losing the Great Pacific War for Lack of Ships and Mariners” appeared in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (Jan. 2019)

  Mr. Burnett is the Chair of the Subcommittee on International Law of the Sea of the Maritime Law Association of the United States and the former Chair of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association.

  In 2007 he provided expert testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on accession to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the ratification of the 1984 Agreement regarding Part XI of the Convention. He has been a frequent lecturer at the Rhodes Academy on International law of the sea.

  Mr. Burnett is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1972-B.S.) and the University of Denver College of Law (1980-J.D.). He spent a 30-year career on active and reserve duty with the U.S. Navy in billets afloat and ashore, including duty as an exchange officer with the Brazilian Navy and with the Military Sealift Command. He holds the rank of Captain USN (ret.)

Speakers

• Aldo Chircop

  

  Professor, Dalhousie University

  Aldo Chircop, JSD, is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Maritime Law and Policy (Tier I). Originally from Malta, since 1992 his home is Canada, based at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. His fields of research and teaching are Canadian maritime law, international maritime law and the law of the sea which he explores from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. He has advised several governments, international organizations, law firms and community organizations. Professor Chircop has published extensively as well as co-editing the Ocean Yearbook (Brill). His most recent book is Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, the Human Impacts and Regulation (Springer Polar Sciences, 2020; co-edited with Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta and Ronald Pelot). Professor Chircop is a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society and chairs the International Working Group for Polar Shipping of the Comité Maritime International (CMI).

  “Beyond the Polar Code: How Canada might Regulate Low Impact Corridors in the Northwest Passage”

• Kentaro Wani

  

  Associate Professor, Osaka University

  Kentaro Wani, LLB (Sophia University, 1999), MA (the University of Tokyo, 2001), PhD (the University of Tokyo, 2007), is Associate Professor of Public International Law at Osaka University, Japan (since October 2010). From 2007 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the University of Tokyo. He maintains a special interest in the law of armed conflict; the use of force in international law; the law of the sea; and the history of international law. His principal publications include Neutrality in International Law: From the Sixteenth Century to 1945 (Routledge, 2017); “Development of the Law of the Sea and the Legal Status of International Straits in Time of International Armed Conflict,” Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 61 (2019); and “The Status of Rebels in Non-International Armed Conflict: Do They Have the Right to Life?,” in Karen N. Scott, Kathleen Claussen, Charles-Emmanuel Côté, and Atsuko Kanehara, eds., Changing Actors in International Law (Brill, 2020). He has won the 43rd Adachi Mineichiro Memorial Award (Adachi Mineichiro Memorial Foundation) in 2010 for his work on the law of neutrality.

  “Navigational Rights and the Coastal State’s Jurisdiction in the Northern Sea Route”

• Evan T. Bloom

  

  Senior Fellow, Wilson Center Polar Institute, and former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

  Evan T. Bloom is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He retired from the U.S. Department of State in December 2020, where he held various positions including Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries and Director of the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs. He led U.S. Antarctic policy as head of the U.S. delegations to the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources from 2006 to 2020. He also served as the lead U.S. negotiator for the successful establishment of the world’s largest marine protected area, in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. He supervised U.S. representation in the Arctic Council, the International Maritime Organization and the International Seabed Authority. He led the U.S. delegation to high seas treaty negotiations (biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction) at the UN and chaired the Executive Committee of the federal Extended Continental Shelf Task Force. He joined the Department as a lawyer in 1991 after practicing law in Tokyo and Washington, DC. Mr. Bloom is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Explorers Club. He graduated from Princeton University (A.B.) and Columbia Law School (JD).

  “The Arctic Council and Regional Maritime Governance”

• Zhen Sun

  

  Research Officer, WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute

  Dr. Zhen Sun is a Research Officer at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Her main research interests include law of the sea, international regulation of shipping, ocean governance, climate action and the protection of the marine environment.

  Prior to joining WMU, Zhen was a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore between 2013 and 2018. She was a member of the CIL Ocean Law and Policy team, in which she worked on a wide range of subjects in the law of the sea. Zhen was the researcher-in-charge for a number of research projects and capacity building activities at CIL, including projects funded by the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. Zhen has lectured for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as government officials and practitioners. She has contributed to the editorial work of a couple of book projects at CIL and published a number of book chapters and journal articles on various topics including legal issues in the Arctic, the interaction between UNCLOS and the IMO, straits used for international navigation, maritime security and the protection of submarine cables.

  Zhen received the Bachelor of Laws Degree from Hainan University and a LLM in International Law from China University of Political Science and Law in China. She continued her education in the United Kingdom where she received a LLM in Public International Law (with distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

  “The Role of East Asian Port States in Addressing Ship-Source Pollution in Arctic Shipping”

Panel 4: East China Sea Maritime Boundaries

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• JST 19:30 - 21:10
• EDT 6:30 - 8:10
• CEST 12:30 - 14:10

Moderator

• James Kraska

  

  Chairman and Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law, US Naval War College

  James Kraska is Chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law in the Stockton Center for International Law at the Naval War College and Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. He has served as Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of the Philippines and Visiting Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University. He previously was Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University Marine Laboratory and Chief of Naval Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles and is Editor-in-Chief of International Law Studies and the treatise, Benedict on Admiralty: International Maritime Law. He is also a Permanent Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Kraska served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, with multiple tours of duty in Japan and the Pentagon.

Speakers

• Hironobu Sakai

  

  Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Law

  Education

  LL.M. (Kyoto University, 1989), B.A. (Kyoto University, 1987)

  Career

  Professor of International Law, Kyoto University (2005-present), Professor of International Law, Kobe University (2002-2005), Special Researcher, the Japanese Embassy in the Netherlands (2000-2002), PSIO Fellow, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1996-1998), Associate Professor, Kobe University (1993-2002), Research Assistant, Kyoto University (1992-1993)
  Secretary, Japanese Society of International Law (2014-2016); Associate Editor, Japanese Yearbook of International Law (2010-present); Member, the Planning Committee, International Law Association, Japanese Branch (2006-present)

  Publication (in English only)

  ⋅‘After the Whaling in the Antarctic Judgment: Its Lessons and Prospects from a Japanese Perspective’, Malgosia Fitzmaurice & Dai Tamada (eds.), Whaling in the Antarctic: The ICJ Judgment and its Implications (Brill, 2016), pp.308-345.
  ⋅‘New Relationship between the United Nations and Regional Organizations in Peace and Security: A Case of the African Union’, in Shotaro Hamamoto, Hironobu Sakai & Akiho Shibata (eds.), “L’être situé”, Effectiveness and Purposes of International Law, Essays in Honour of Professor Ryuichi Ida (Brill, 2015), pp.165-189.
  ⋅‘La bonne administration de la justice in the Incidental Proceedings of the International Court of Justice’, Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol.55 (2012), pp.110-133.
  ⋅‘New Developments of the Orders on Provisional Measures by the International Court of Justice’, Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol.52 (2009), pp.231-280.
  ⋅‘Legitimization of Measures to Secure Effectiveness in UN Peacekeeping: The Role of Chapter VII of the UN Charter’, in Teruo Komori & Karel Wellens (eds.), Public Interest Rules of International Law. Towards Effective Implementation (Ashgate, 2009), pp.119-139.
  ⋅‘‘As if’ Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter? : Rigidity of the Threshold between Chapter VII and non Chapter VII’, Asian Yearbook of International Law, Vol.13 (2007), pp.103-125.

  “A Quest for Win-Win Solution in the Delimitation of Continental Shelf in East China Sea: An Irreconsilable Conflict between China and Japan?”

• Yann-huei Song

  

  Professor Dr., Academia Sinica (retired)

  Professor Dr. Yann-huei Song was a research fellow in the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He retired on February 1, 2021. He received his doctoral degree in International Relations from Kent State University, Ohio; L.L.M. and J.S.D. from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, the United States.

  He has broad academic interests covering ocean law and policy studies and currently a member of the editorial boards of Ocean Development and International Law and Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs.

  Two of his forthcoming publications are: “Taiwan’s SCS Policy under the Tsai Administration,” in SECURITY, STRATEGY AND MILITARY DYNAMICS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, edited by Gordon Houlden, Scott N. Romaniuk, and Nong Hong (Bristol University Press, 2021), Chapter 4 and “A Preliminary Study of the Potential International Legal Issues Arising from the Plan to Deploy FNNPs in the Disputed South China Sea,” in MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, NEW MARINE TECHNOLOGY, AND THE LAW OF THE SEA, edited by Keyuan Zou and Anastasia Telesetsky (Brill Publisher, 2021), Chapter 5.

  “Maritime Boundary Disputes in the East China Sea: Potential Impact of PRC Coast Guard Law”

• LEE Keun-Gwan

  

  Professor, Seoul National University

  Keun-Gwan Lee is a professor of law at the School of Law, Seoul National University. He received his LL.B. from Seoul National University, LL.M. from Georgetown University, and Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He has taught international law at the Korean Naval Academy, Konkuk University, Kyushu University and Seoul National University. He worked as director of studies at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2010 and gave a special lecture at the Academy in 2018. He has worked for UNESCO in the field of international protection of cultural objects since 2001, including the chairmanship of the Inter-Governmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property (2012-2014). He is currently serving as the President of the Korean Society of International Law (2021). His research interests include the history and theory of international law, state recognition and succession, the law of the sea, the international protection of cultural property, and the various international legal issues arising in East Asia.

  “Maritime Delimitation in the East China Sea in the Age of Architectonic Transformation”

• Stuart Kaye

  

  Professor, University of Wollongong

  Stuart Kaye is Director and Distinguished Professor of Law within the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong. He holds degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney, winning the Law Graduates’ Association Medal, and a doctorate in law from Dalhousie University.

  Stuart Kaye has an extensive research interest in the law of the sea and international law. He has written a number of books, including Australia's Maritime Boundaries (2001), The Torres Strait (1997), International Fisheries Management (2001), Freedom of Navigation in the Indo-Pacific Region (2008) and over 100 other books, articles and chapters. He was appointed to the International Hydrographic Organization's Panel of Experts on Maritime Boundary Delimitation in 1995 and in 2000 was appointed to the List of Arbitrators under the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty. He was chair of the Australian International Humanitarian Law Committee from 2003 to 2009, for which he was awarded the Australian Red Cross Society Distinguished Service Medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2007 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2011.

  “State Practice as a Factor Impacting Potential East China Sea Boundaries”

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• EDT 8:10 - 8:20
• CEST 14:10 - 14:20

Parallel Sessions C

Panel 5: Maritime Security Issues Concerning Small Island States

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• JST 21:20 - 22:50
• EDT 8:20 - 9:50
• CEST 14:20 - 15:50

Moderator

• Raul “Pete” Pedrozo

  

  Professor, Stockton Center for International Law, USNWC

  Professor Raul (Pete) Pedrozo (Captain, USN, Ret.) is the Howard S. Levie Chair on the Law of Armed Conflict and Professor of International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Stockton Center for International Law. He also serves as one of two U.S. representatives to the International Group of Experts participating in the revision of the 1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Prior to assuming the Levie Chair, Captain Pedrozo was the Principal Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Prior to his retirement from active duty after 34 years of service, he served in numerous positions advising senior military and civilian Defense officials, including as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and senior legal advisor to Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. He has lectured extensively at military and civilian academic institutions and participated in numerous multilateral and bilateral negotiations, including the International Maritime Organization (Chairman of the IMO Working Group responsible for drafting the Guidelines for the Suppression of Illegal Transport of Migrants by Sea adopted by the IMO), Transnational Organized Crime Convention (lead U.S. negotiator for the maritime chapter to the Migrant Smuggling Protocol to the Convention), International Civil Aviation Organization, and US-PRC Military Maritime Consultative Agreement. CAPT Pedrozo has written extensively on maritime security and South China Sea issues and is the co-author to International Maritime Security Law (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013), The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation (United States Naval Institute, 2018), and the forthcoming, Emerging Technology and the Law of the Sea (Oxford University Press). He has an LLM (International & Comparative Law), Georgetown University Law Center and JD (Law), The Ohio State University College of Law.

Speakers

• Cleo Paskal

  

  Associate Fellow, Chatham House

  Cleo Paskal’s affiliations include: Associate Fellow, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), London, UK; Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C.; Visiting Fellow, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM); International Board of Advisors, Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, India; and International Board of Advisors, Global Counter Terrorism Council, India. She is widely published in the academic and popular press, is a regular media commentator and has briefed government departments in various countries around the world. She is research lead on Chatham House’s project on perceptions of strategic shifts in the Indo-Pacific from the points of view of India, the US, Japan, Oceania, the UK, France and China.

  “Disappearing Links in the Chain: How Geopolitical, Geoeconomic and Geo-physical Change Might Reshape the Island Chain Defense Concept”

• Dominique Bourgnon de Layre

  

  Lieutenant-Commander, ALPACI

  - Studied public law and philosphy of law in Paris la Sorbonne University

  - Joined the navy in 2003

  - Watch officer and chief of the administration service on several frigates (Jeanne d’Arc, Bougainville, Courbet) deployed in indian ocean and eastern mediterranean ;

  - Joined the strategic level at France’s joint operations headquarters in Paris and worked on international relations (horn of africa – counter piracy – Afghanistan -Libya) 2008-2014

  - Deployed as legal advisor for the EU/OHQ Atalanta (counter-piracy horn of Africa) in London - 2015

  - Worked as a law expert for the joint staff in Paris 2015-2017

  - Joined the military staff college - 2017

  - Assigned at the law of the sea and ops law office of the navy headquarters in Paris 2018 – 2020 (where I was responsible for providing legal council to the strategic level for the deployments of navy units (China sea/ North Korea, eastern mediterranean sea, black sea, etc).

  - Since august 2020, chief of the at sea law enforcement office – French pacific command (ALPACI) – French Polynesia

  Responsible for the « coast guards » function – coordinatiing all the services and agencies in French Polynesia for fishing surveyance, environnement protection, navigation security issues, and at sea police operations (drug trafficking).

  Lt Cdr Dominique Bourgnon de Layre is 42, married and have two young boys.

  “French territories in the Pacific and cooperation with the PIC's on maritime security issues”

• Masahiro Kurosaki

  

  Associate Professor of International Law, National Defense Academy of Japan

  Masahiro Kurosaki is an Associate Professor of International Law and the Director of the Study of Law, Security and Military Operations at the National Defense Academy of Japan. He has published a range of articles and book chapters on the law of international security, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, and Japanese security laws, which include: “Towards the Special Computer Law of Targeting: ‘Fully Autonomous’ Weapons Systems and the Proportionality Test,” in Claus Kres and Robert Lawless (eds.), Necessity and Proportionality in International Peace and Security Law (Oxford University Press, 2021); Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Pathways for Bridging Law and Policy (Columbia Law School, 2020)(co-edited with Nobuhisa Ishizuka and Matthew C. Waxman); “The Fight against Impunity for Core International Crimes: Reflections on the Contribution of Networked Experts to a Regime of Aggravated State Responsibility,” in Holly Cullen, Joanna Harrington, and Catherin Renshaw (eds.), Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

  “In Quest of the Optimal Legal Framework for Maritime Law Enforcement against Foreign State Vessels at the Territorial Sea”

Panel 6: Preservation of the Marine Environment, Including the Hazard of Plastic Debris

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• JST 21:20 - 23:00
• EDT 8:20 - 10:00
• CEST 14:20 - 16:00

Moderator

• Havas Oegroseno

  

  Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Federal Republic of Germany

  Arif Havas Oegroseno is Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Republic of Indonesia to the Federal Republic of Germany, sworn in by the President of the Republic of Indonesia on 20 February 2018. Prior to this, he held the office of Vice Minister for Maritime Sovereignty at the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs from 2015 – 2018 after serving as Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of Belgium, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and the European Union from 10 August 2010 to January 2015.

  His previous task included Director General for Law and International Agreements from 2008 – 2010. This position represented a promotion from the previous position of Director for Political, Security and Regional Agreements, Directorate General for Law and International Agreements from 2002 – 2008.

  In June 2010, he became the first Indonesian to preside over the 20th Conference on the Convention on Maritime Law of 1982 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The President of this conference preside over 160 member states of the Convention on Maritime Law of 1982.

  His career as a diplomat and civil servant stretches over 32 years since 1987, culminating presently with the rank of Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary/Pembina Utama Madya/Golongan IV E.

  His overseas posting as a diplomat included the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1999 – 2002 with the main task to re-open the Indonesian mission closed since 1975, and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia in Geneva with focus on human rights.

  Arif Havas Oegroseno is an alumnus of the Harvard Law School 1992 and the Faculty of Law, Universitas Diponegoro 1986. Besides participating in various career courses for civil servant and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he also took part in a number of short training courses abroad, among others World Bank – Harvard Institute on International Development, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, International Boundaries Negotiations, San Remo Humanitarian Course, and Australian Foreign Service Course.

  He was awarded the honorary medal of the Commander in the Order of Leopold of Belgium from the King of Belgium as well as the honorary medals by two cities of Belgium, the Honorary Knight of Blancmoussi of Stavelot, and the Honorary Knight of Confrerie du Ramort of Ostende.

  Academic Engagements

  Arif Havas Oegroseno is a member of the Executive Committee of the Asian Society of International Law and a member of the International Panel of Centre for International National University of Singapore. He has given lectures in Indonesia among others at Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Padjadjaran, Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Airlangga, Univesitas Udayana, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jogjakarta, UIN Malang and UIN Jogjakarta. Overseas, he held lectures among others at the Cambridge University, University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, World Maritime University, Rhodes Academy, Leuven University, Liege University, Konstanz University, Humboldt University and Wismar University in Germany.

  Moreover, he has spoken at several national, regional and multilateral conferences including as keynote speaker together with the judge of the International Court of Justice during the event “60th Anniversary of International Law Commission” at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva.

  He actively contributes his opinion to the national mass media such as the daily Kompas and global mass media such as International Herald Tribune. He also writes in scientific publications, among others ANALISA CSIS Indonesia beyond the Water’s Edge: Managing an Archipelagic State 2009; Maritime Border Diplomacy 2012; and Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention 2010.

  Arif Havas Oegroseno is married to Sartika Oegroseno and has two children, Faiz Oegroseno and Nabila Oegroseno, both pursuing their professions. He routinely plays badminton and long-distance (50-150 km) road-bike.

  Berlin, January 2021

Speakers

• Aleke Stöfen-O'Brien

  

  Associate Research Officer, WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute

  Dr. Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien is Associate Research Officer at the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Her research interests include law of the sea, marine environmental protection and resource management, with a particular focus on marine pollution as well as questions relating to equity and diversity within ocean governance.

  Prior to joining the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, Dr. Stöfen-O’Brien served as a Scientific Officer in the Marine Unit of the Federal Environment Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany working on national and international regulatory aspects relating to marine debris. Dr. Stöfen-O’Brien has extensive professional experience gained during her career as at the Secretariat for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the European Commission, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) as well as the WHO/Europe representation to the EU working on aspects such as marine environmental protection, marine litter, sub-seabed CO₂ capture and storage, capacity-building and broader aspects of international and European law.

  Dr. Stöfen-O’Brien completed her education in legal studies as well as public policy from Universities in Germany, the Netherlands as well as France.
  Dr. Stöfen-O’Brien served as a nominated expert to the United Nations World Ocean Assessment (Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment Including Socio-economic Aspects) and was co convenor and author on Chapter 12 on marine debris and dumping.

  “Connecting Legal Islands: the Quest for Regulatory Solutions to Marine Plastics”

• Tomofumi Kitamura

  

  Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

  Tomofumi Kitamura is an associate professor of international law at the University of Tokyo (Japan). Before taking up the current position in April 2016, he was an associate professor at the Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan) (2011-2016). He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Tokyo. His areas of research include international trade law, law of treaties, state responsibility, and international dispute settlement.

  “Designing an International Instrument for Combating Marine Plastic Pollution”

• Joanna Mossop

  

  Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington

  Joanna Mossop is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the law of the sea including marine biodiversity, dispute settlement, the continental shelf and maritime security. She has been a member of the New Zealand delegation for the IGC process and was nominated in 2019 by New Zealand to the list of arbitrators and conciliators under Annex V and VII of UNCLOS. She has published many articles and chapters, and her book The Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities (Oxford University Press, 2016) was a co-winner of the JF Northey Memorial Book Award. She is on the Council of the Australia New Zealand Society of International Law and a member of the Ocean, Coasts and Coral Reefs Specialist Group of IUCN.

  “The Implications of the BBNJ Treaty for the Region”

• Laurent Parenté

  

  Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Vanuatu to the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO), Government of Republic of Vanuatu

  H.E. Laurent Parenté is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Vanuatu to the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) as well to the International Oil Pollution Fund (IOPC Funds) and the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO). He is the current Chair of the IMO Technical Cooperation Committee and a Board Member of the Board of Governors of the World Maritime University (WMU).

  H.E. Laurent Parenté has a strong experience with IMO as an active participant to the work of this Organization leading the Delegation of Vanuatu before all IMO Organs and Diplomatic Conferences since he first joined the Vanuatu IMO Mission in 2005. He enjoys a strong knowledge of IMO rules and procedures with the drafting and co-drafting of numerous submissions on safety, security and the protection of the marine environment from ships.

5/12 Wed

Panel 7: Issues Arising Out of Climate Change

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• JST 20:00 - 21:40
• EDT 7:00 - 8:40
• CEST 13:00 - 14:40

Moderator

• Ronán Long

  

  Professor, WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute

  Professor Ronán Long is the Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden, and the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea.

  He is the author/co-editor of 14 books and over 300 other scholarly contributions on oceans law and policy. He read for his PhD at the School of Law Trinity College Dublin, he has been a Senior Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Scholar at the ‘Centre for Oceans Law and Policy' at the University of Virginia. Additionally, Professor Long teaches on the Law of the Sea programme at Harvard Law School. Under his direction, the work of the Institute has received the imprimatur of the United Nations General Assembly and entails a suite of projects concerning: the law of the sea needs of Small Island Developing States; marine debris and plastic pollution in the Eastern Caribbean; the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction; the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence in the ocean domain; as well as the empowerment of women scientists for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

  Prior to his academic career, he was a permanent staff member at the European Commission and undertook over 40 missions on behalf of the European Institutions to the Member States of the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, Central America as well as to African countries. During his previous career in the Irish Naval Service, he won an academic prize at Britannia Royal Naval College and held a number of appointments ashore and afloat, including membership of the Navy’s elite diving unit. As a keen yachtsman, he has represented Ireland at the top competitive level in offshore racing. Ronán is passionate about the law of the sea, conservation and global sustainability, as well as the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. His most recent books adress Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021) and Frontiers in International Environmental Law, Oceans and Climate Challenges: Essays in Honour of David Freestone (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021).

  Further information can be found here: https://www.wmu.se/people/ronan-long

Speakers

• Davor Vidas

  

  Professor, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute

  Davor Vidas is Research Professor in International Law at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway, and Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the Chair of the Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise of the International Law Association (ILA; 2012–2022), and is an advisory member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Professor Vidas served as Principal Investigator for several major research projects on international law and interdisciplinary approaches to ocean issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief (with D. Rothwell) of the short monograph series Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea, and is an author or editor of many publications, including more recently International Law and Sea Level Rise: Report of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise (with D. Freestone and J. McAdam, eds), Brill: 2019.

  "Sea Level Rise and the Law of the Sea - as addressed by the International Law Association and the International Law Commission"

• Pierre-Jean Bordahandy

  

  Professor, University of the South Pacific

  Pierre-Jean Bordahandy (PJ) is currently Associate Professor at the School of Law and Social Sciences with The University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu where he teaches courses on the law of the sea, maritime law and international fisheries. He holds a LLB from France, a diploma in criminal sciences, a D.E.S.S. (French L.L.M.) in Maritime and Transport Law (University of Aix-en-Provence), a L.L.M. in Private International Trade Law and comparative law (University of Stockholm), and a PhD in Maritime Law on “The concept of container and its legal implications” (University of Queensland – Australia).

  PJ has worked in France for a couple of years as an in-house lawyer for a company involved in the international trade of flat glass (cargo claim, insurance policies, charter parties etc.). He has also worked in Australia for Gadens Lawyers and, occasionally, for Blake Dawson and Waldron advising on French law regarding mining related matters in New Caledonia.

  PJ has been privileged to be part of the technical support to the Pacific Delegations attending the IMO / MEPC negotiations on the reduction of greenhouse gas from ships.

  PJ has also done some pro bono work for the World Food Program in relation to the issue of cabotage restriction rules to the supply of disaster relief aid to Pacific islands and archipelagic states. This will be the focus of PJ’s presentation at this prestigious conference.

  “Cabotage Restrictions Rules and the Shipping of Disaster Relief Aid – Navigating the Climate Change Induced Risk for Security in the Pacific”

  Naoki Iwatsuki

  

  Professor, Rikkyo University

  Naoki IWATSUKI is professor of international law at Rikkyo University (Japan) since 2012. He earned LL.M from the University of Tokyo in 1998 and DEA from the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, in 2000. He was visiting fellow at the European University Institute (2010-2011), at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the University of Cambridge (2011), and at the University of Rome La Sapienza (2011-2012). His principal field of research is the peaceful settlement of international disputes, especially focusing on the legal regulation of non-military coercive measures during the process of amicable settlement of disputes, or countermeasures. On this subject, he has published many journal articles and chapters, including “Legal Nature of Non-forcible Unilateral Measures by Third States in Case of Grave Violation of Human Rights: Critical Analysis on the Doctrine of ‘Third-party Countermeasures,’” in Yuji IWASAWA, Koichi MORIKAWA, Tadashi MORI, and Yumi NISHIMURA eds., Dynamics of International Law: In Memory of Professor Akira KOTERA, vol. 765 (2018), pp. 49-55 [in Japanese] and “Chapter 81 Procedural Conditions of Countermeasures,” in James Crawford, Alain Pellet, Simon Olleson and Kate Parlet eds., The Law of International Responsibility (2010), pp. 1149-1156 (in collaboration with Yuji IWASAWA).

  “Regime Interaction between the Law of the Sea and the Law on Climate Change”

• Karen Scott

  

  Professor, University of Canterbury

  Karen Scott is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She teaches and researches in the areas of the law of the sea, international environmental law and Antarctic law and policy. Recent research projects have focused on ocean acidification and a due diligence obligation (IJMCL, 2020), New Zealand oceans policy (Ocean Yearbook, 2021, forthcoming), marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean (Korean Journal of International Law, forthcoming) and informal law-making and area-based protection (Klein (ed), 2021, OUP, forthcoming). Recent books edited by Karen include: Erika Techera, Jade Lindley, Karen N. Scott and Anastasia Telesetsky (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (2nd edition, Routledge, 2021);
  Karen N. Scott and David L VanderZwaag (eds), Research Handbook on Polar Law (Edward Elgar, 2020); and Karen N. Scott, Kathleen Claussen, Charles-Emmanuel Côté and Atsuko Kanehara (eds), Changing Actors in International Law (Brill, 2020). Karen is the Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Development and International Law and the current President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL).

  “The BBNJ Agreement: Strengthening the Oceans-Climate Nexus?”

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• JST 21:40 - 21:50
• EDT 8:40 - 8:50
• CEST 14:40 - 14:50

Conclusion

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• JST 21:50 - 22:20
• EDT 8:50 - 9:20
• CEST 14:50 - 15:20

• Atsuko Kanehara

  

  Professor, Sophia University, Faculty of Law / President, Japanese Society of International Law / Councilor, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

  Atsuko Kanehara is Professor of Public International Law at Sophia University.
  President of the Japanese Society of International Law and Vice President of the Japan Society of Ocean Policy.
  She also serves as Councilor of Advisory Council for the National Headquarters for Ocean Policy of Japan, appointed by Prime Minister. She was an advocate for the Government of Japan in “Southern Bluefin Tuna” Cases, and a counsel for the Government of Japan in “Whaling in the Antarctic” Case. She is also serving as Councilor of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.
  She is also a member of the Governing Board of IMO International Maritime Law Institute, and Visiting Lecturer at the Institute (2007-2011, 2018-present).
  She delivered a course of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law, and her article based upon them was published in the Recueil des cours, Volume 399 (2019).
  Her previous positions include, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA (1995-1997); the Netherland Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht, Netherlands (2009); Leiden University, Faculty of Arts, Japan Studies, Leiden, Netherlands (2008); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Japan Studies, Leuven, Belgium (2007); Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D. C., USA (2017).