The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

lt;p>Since 2011 the author is building up and supervising the regional MA Program on Integrated Water Management in Central Asia at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty on behalf of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Since 2016 the author is the UNESCO Chair-holder for water management in Central Asia. Her teaching and research fields cover legal framework and institutional interstate cooperation including on water and energy nexus. As Vice Rector on International Cooperation and Public Relations at Kazakh-German University the author continues to enhance positive water diplomacy in the region. She is also the editor-in-chief, of the Journal of the Central Asian Journal of Water Research (CAJWR), which is an open-access, peer-reviewed e-Journal dedicated to all aspects of water management in the region of Central Asia. Also, the author has a membership at the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and at International Law Association within the Committee "Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development".

lt;p>Introduction and Course of the Investigation.- Geography, Politics and Economy in the Caspian Region.- Legal History and the Present State of Use of the Caspian Resources.- Cooperation Levels in Caspian States Practice in the 1990s Until 2018.- Interrelations Between Territorial Delimitation and the Regime of the Use of the Caspian Sea.- The Regime for the Use of Nonliving Resources in the Caspian Sea.- The Legal Regime of the Living Resources of the Caspian Sea.- The Legal Regime of the Pipelines in the Caspian Sea.- The Legal Regime of Maritime Navigation on the Caspian Sea.- Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.- Concluding Remarks.