40 Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Tomasz Kamiński (University of Warsaw) – Ph.D., Dr. Hab. Iur. Associated Professor at Department of Public International Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw and at Faculty of Security, Logistics and Management, Military University of Technology. Author of numerous publications in the field of international law, considering i.a.: law of the sea, diplomatic law and law of treaties. Member of ILA Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines under International Law. Member of the Polish Academy of Science Committee on Maritime Law and of the Legal Advisory Committee to MOFA of the Republic of Poland. Karol Karski (University of Warsaw) – Ph.D., Dr. Hab. Iur., Full Professor of Law. Head of the Department of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. Member of the Committee on Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Representative of Poland during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd part of the 4th session of the ISA (Kingston and New York, 1998). Author of over 160 publications in the field of international law, including the international law of the sea. Former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.

Introduction by Tomasz Kamiński and Karol Karski

PART I: General Remarks

1. Anniversary of the UNCLOS or an Epitaph for Codification Conferences

2. International Law of the Sea in the Achievements of Professor Wojciech Góralczyk: Polish Delegate to the First and the Third UN Conferences on the Law of the Sea and to the Preparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

PART II: Maritime Areas and their Delimitation

3. The Methodology of Maritime Delimitation – Achievements and Prospects

4. The Status of Straight Baselines and the so-called Creeping Jurisdiction of Coastal States. Some Remarks on the Means of Addressing Unjustified Maritime Claims

5. The Antarctic Treaty - The Pearl in the Crown of the Law of Extraterritorial Space

6. Insula in Mari Nata – A Problem of Ius Gentium That is Not Only Theoretical

7. The Law of the Seabed 40 years after UNCLOS

8. The Process of Developing Maritime Spatial Plans of The Republic of Poland in the Context of Water Areas Under the UNCLOS Convention

PART III: UNCLOS in the Jurisprudence of International and Domestic Bodies and Courts

9. Through the Lens of General International Rules. How did Judge Manfred Lachs Contribute to Developing the Law of the Sea?

10. The Role of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

11. Dispute Settlement Measures Guaranteed by the Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Practice of the Proceedings of the Russian Federation

12. Reception of ICJ Jurisprudence by Domestic Courts in the Field of International Law of The Sea

13. Article 235 of LOSC and the International Liability Regime for Oil Pollution Damage: Cracks in the System as Shown by Recent Case Law

PART IV: Protection of the Marine Environment

14. Environmental Law of the Sea and Part XII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

15. Marine Mammals, the UNCLOS and the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling: Too Little and too Unstructured, A Case study of Whaling

16. The Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction: A Treaty Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?

17. The Vistula Spit Canal in the Light of the ‘Rights of Nature’ Concept and the Principle of Good Neighbourliness

18. Environmental Impact Assessment as a Mandatory Element of the Submarine Pipelines Laying Process, as Seen by the Baltic Sea Countries - Overview and Perspectives

PART V: Maritime Security

19. International Legal Aspects of Combating Maritime Terrorism. Notes de lege lata and de lege ferenda

20. Counteracting Maritime Incidents of a Hybrid Nature in the Light of the UNCLOS Convention

21. Can Turkey Legally Close the Passage through Turkish Straits for Russian Warships due to Russian Military Aggression Against Ukraine?

22. Independent-Dependent States - Land-Locked States Right of Access to and from the Sea

23. Maritime Disputes that Poland is Involved in

PART VI: Maritime Safety

24. (R)evolution of Maritime Safety in IMO Conventions and UNCLOS

25. Some Legal Aspects of Satellite Navigation and Maritime Safety

26. Defending the Fleet: Cybersecurity and Autonomous Ships

27. Port Community System (PCS) as a Digital Platform for Autonomous Ships - A Polish Perspective

28. ACCESS DENIED – The COVID-19 Pandemic and Discretion of Port States to Decide on Access to a Port in the Light of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Legal and Economic Consequences