Myron H. Nordquist is the Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: a Commentary, the seven-volume “Virginia Commentary” series, plus a Supplementary Documents volume.Ronán Long is Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Institute and holds the Nippon Foundation Professorial Chair in Ocean Governance and the Law of the Sea at the World Maritime University, where he lectures on Ocean Governance, Law of the Sea and International Dispute Resolution and Diplomacy. He has also lectured at the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy and is a supervisor of advanced academic research under the United Nations - The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsFeatured Remarks1 The Journey to RealisationRena Lee2 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Present Geo- Political SituationHans Corell3 Managing High Seas Through a Sui GenerisArif Havas OegrosenoPART 1Context—Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)4 BBNJ Treaty Negotiations 2019J. Ashley Roach5 Area-Based Management Tools, Including Marine Protected Areas – Reflections on the Status of NegotiationsLisa Eurén HöglundPART 2Marine Genetic Resources, Access & Benefit Sharing6 Benefit Sharing: Combining Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Science and an Ecosystem- Focused ApproachMarcel Jaspars and Abbe E. L. Brown7 Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: (Intellectual) Property HeuristicsSiva ThambisettyPART 3Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA S), Scientific Data and Databases, Sensor Technology8 The Quest to Completely Map the World’s Oceans in Support of Understanding Marine Biodiversity and the Regulatory Barriers we Have CreatedLarry Mayer and J. Ashley Roach9 Mitigating Human Impacts on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction: Potential Benefits of the International Legally Binding InstrumentRobin Warner10 Not an Intractable Challenge: Geoengineering MSR in ABNJKaren N. ScottPART 4Capacity Building and Transfer of Technology (CBTT)11 Capacity Building in Marine Science – Added Value of the BBNJ?Alf Håkon Hoel12 Marine Technology Transfer: Towards a Capacity-Building Toolkit for Marine Biodiversity Beyond National JurisdictionHarriet Harden-DaviesPART 5Cross-cutting Issues13 Beholding the Emerging Biodiversity Agreement through a Looking Glass: What Capacity-Building and Gender Equality Norms Should Be Found There?Ronán Long14 A Few Words on the “Cross-Cutting Issue”——The Relationship between a BBNJ Convention and Existing, Relevant Instruments and Frameworks and Relevant Global, Regional and Sectoral BodiesTed L. McDorman15 Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction and the Limits of the Commons: Spatial and Functional ComplexitiesJoanna Mossop and Clive SchofieldPART 6Arctic Issues: Environment, Security, Shipping16 Non-Arctic States’ Role in the High North: Participating in Arctic Governance Through CooperationNong Hong17 Round Two for Arctic Fishing?David DubayIndex