Conference - UNCLOS at 40: An Assessment

On 29 March 2022, Alex Oude Elferink participated in a panel at the Conference ‘UNCLOS at 40: An Assessment’, which was organized by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore on 29 and 30 March 2022. He presented on the topic of ‘25 years of UNCLOS Dispute Settlement – A General Assessment’.

He among others discussed the risk of divergence between judicial findings on the law and State practice and the potential role of the judiciary in contributing to addressing the fundamental challenges facing ocean governance. Other speakers in Panel 3 included judges Rüdiger Wolfrum, Abdul Koroma and Tullio Treves and professor Natalie Klein of the University of New South Wales.

A recording of the individual panels of the conference is available at UNCLOS at 40: an assessment