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Remarks by David Freestone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

David Freestone
David Freestone*
Affiliation:
George Washington University School of Law.
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As a teacher of international law for more years than I care to admit, I have to declare at the start of my comments that I admire the South China Sea Arbitration Award greatly. It presents an interpretation of the provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on islands and rocks in a comprehensive, carefully considered and intellectually satisfying way. As my colleagues will doubtless point out, it does present problems relating to current existing state practice, but it does to my mind capture what the UNCLOS III drafters had in mind when the 1982 Convention text was put together.

Type
The Regime of Islands in the Aftermath of the South China Sea Arbitration
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 112 , 2018 , pp. 4 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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References

1 South China Sea Arbitration (Phil. v. China), Award, para. 497 (Perm. Ct. Arb. July 12, 2016) [hereinafter Award].

2 Id., para. 543.

3 Id., para. 544.

4 Id., para. 516.

5 Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, at 1140, 1180, 1186, available at http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/report/WG1AR5_ALL_FINAL.pdf.

6 Text at http://www.ila-hq.org/index.php/committees.

7 Award, supra note 1, para. 541.

8 Id., para. 944.

9 Id., paras. 988, 991.

10 Id., para. 541.

11 Id., para. 966.

12 See Freestone, David & Schofield, Clive, Republic of the Marshall Islands: 2016 Maritime Zones Declaration Act: Drawing “Lines in the Sea,” 31 Int'l J. Marine & Coastal L. 720 (2016)Google Scholar.