In “Judicialization of the Sea: Bargaining in the Shadow of UNCLOS,” Sara Mitchell and Andrew Owsiak define “legalization” as international legal constraints, and “judicialization” of the law of the sea as states’ sense that their policy options are legally bounded, and that courts have gained the authority to define the meaning of the law of the sea. The authors are generally correct that the processes of legalization and judicialization under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) fundamentally alter interstate behavior in significant ways, whatever the choice of dispute settlement mechanisms a state party to UNCLOS has made. However, as I explain in this essay, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) should be the most often utilized mechanism to settle UNCLOS disputes, and its potential as a dispute settlement mechanism has yet to be used to the fullest extent.