The dispute settlement system under the UN Law of the
Sea Convention: selected issues
Professor Sienho Yee
Wuhan
University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies and Institute of
International Law;
Membre,
Institut de droit international; and Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of
International Law (www.chinesejil.org)
Website: www.sienhoyee.org; Email: sienho@chinesejil.org
The reading materials for this special course are as
follows (a deliberate decision has been made not to reproduce the whole
materials so you can try to look for them yourselves and show how resourceful
you are):
1.
ICJ, history: http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=1
; how it works: http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=6
Statute,
etc.: http://www.icj-cij.org/documents/index.php?p1=4 (look for Basic
Documents in the left hand column and hit the applicable link for the
documents)
2.
UNCLOS: read very carefully all these provisions: Part
XV (279-299); Part XI, section 5 (arts. 186-191); articles 15, 74, 83; 76; Part
XVI (arts. 300-304); art. 311; Annexes II, V, VI, VII, and VIII. (This course
presumes a basic knowledge in the entire law of the sea. So you should have read
the entire UNCLOS and bring it with you
to the lectures for easy reference.)
a. The whole UNCLOS can be found here (you should
download it to your computer for easy reference): http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm
; 1994 Agreement: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_part_xi.htm
;
b. Read as you please: UNCLOS Drafting materials: http://legal.un.org/diplomaticconferences/lawofthesea-1982/lawofthesea-1982.html ;
c. Read as you please: More useful site for official materials: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm .
3.
Sienho Yee, En Route to the Final Shape of the UNCLOS
Dispute Settlement System: Some Pivotal Negotiating Procedural Steps Worthy of
Consideration by Future Treaty-makers and Leaders in Treaty-making, 13 Chinese
Journal of International Law (2014), 185-202. http://chinesejil.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/jmu012?ijkey=FdIJzmBCaN5EHSl&keytype=ref
4.
Sienho Yee, The Presidency
of the ITLOS and the “National State Extension” Concern, 10 Chinese Journal of
International Law (2011), 739-770. http://chinesejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/4/739.full.pdf+html
5.
Sienho
Yee, The South China Sea Arbitration (The Philippines v. China): Potential
Jurisdictional Obstacles or Objections, 13 Chinese Journal of International Law
(2014), 663-739 (Free access link: http://chinesejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/4/663.full.pdf+html).
6.
Sienho
Yee, The South China Sea Arbitration: The Clinical Isolation and/or One-Sided
Tendencies in the Philippines’ Oral Arguments, 14 Chinese JIL (2015), 423-435
(free access link: http://chinesejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/423.full.pdf+html).
7.
Sienho
Yee, Conciliation and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 44 Ocean
Development and International Law (2013), 315-334. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00908320.2013.839161
8.
Sienho Yee,
Sketching
the Debate on Military Activities in the EEZ: An Editorial Comment, 9
Chinese Journal of International Law (2010), 1-7.
9.
ICJ Judgment: Delimitation in the Black Sea
(Romania v. Ukraine), ICJ 2009, free access: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/132/14987.pdf
10. ITLOS Judgment in Case No.
16: Maritime Boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar: Free access: www.sienhoyee.org/itlos16.pdf
11. Shi Jiuyong,
Maritime Delimitation in the Jurisprudence of the International Court
of Justice, 9 Chinese JIL (2010), 271. Free access, http://chinesejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/2/271.full.pdf+html
12. The South
China Sea Issue (materials from the website of the Foreign Ministry of China)(
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/nanhai/eng/
)
Position papers: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/nanhai/eng/snhwtlcwj_1/
13. Chinese
Society of International Law, The Tribunal’s Award in the “South China Sea Arbitration” Initiated by the Philippines Is Null and Void, http://csil.cn/News/Detail.aspx?AId=201
14. Read SOME
cases listed in these pages as much as possible (you are not required to read
them all!):
a. ITLOS, introduction: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=15&L=-1%27
b. ITLOS, cases: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=10&L=0
c. Arbitration: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1288
d. The Southern Bluefin Tuna Case: https://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/FrontServlet?requestType=ICSIDPublicationsRH&actionVal=ViewAnnouncePDF&AnnouncementType=archive&AnnounceNo=7_10.pdf
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Further materials
may be added at this webpage, please check back from time to time (ideally once
a week; and definitely two weeks before the Lectures):