South China Sea Disputes and Law of the Sea

Edited by S. Jayakumar, Professor, Chairman, International Advisory Panel, Centre for International Law, Tommy Koh, Professor, Chairman, Governing Board, Centre for International Law and Robert Beckman, Associate Professor, Head of the Ocean Law and Policy Programme, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

'Scholarly and thorough, yet eminently readable, this book offers up important lessons and possibly paradigms for the management of cross-border, or international disputes on territory, access to resources and other challenges to long-established maritime legal principles, notably freedom of navigation. . . Policy makers and government officials, as well as practitioners and academics with concerns about this potentially volatile region should definitely read the insightful and up-to-date material presented conveniently in this book.'--Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine

• Contents:Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Offshore Features Subject to Claims of SovereigntyBernard H Oxman 2. Defining the ‘Boundary’ between Land and Sea: Territorial Sea Baselines in the South China SeaClive Schofield3. Maritime Zones from Islands and RocksClive R Symmons 4. Maritime Delimitation and Offshore FeaturesTullio Treves 5. Rights and Jurisdiction over Resources in the South China Sea: UNCLOS and the ‘Nine-Dash Line’Ted L McDorman 6. Do the Coastal States in the South China Sea Have a Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles?Alex Oude Elferink 7. Rights and Obligations in Areas of Overlapping Maritime ClaimsDavid Anderson and Youri van Logchem 8. UNCLOS Part XV and the South China SeaRobert Beckman Index