Recent maritime disputes, environmental disasters, and piracy have raised the profile of the law of the sea. This Oxford Handbook brings together high-level analysis of all of its key aspects, examining the role of particular regions in the development of the law of the sea, management of the oceans' resources, and critical contemporary debates.

• 1: Tullio Treves: Historical Development of the Law of the Sea


• 2: Robin Churchill: The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea


• 3: Irina Buga: Between Stability and Change in the Law of the Sea Convention: Subsequent Practice, Treaty Modification, and Regime Interaction


• 4: Coatler G Lathrop: Baselines


• 5: John E Noyes: The Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone


• 6: Donald R. Rothwell: International Straits


• 7: Tara Davenport: The Archipelagic Regime


• 8: Gemma Andreone: The Exclusive Economic Zone


• 9: Ted L. McDorman: The Continental Shelf


• 10: Douglas Guilfoyle: The High Seas


• 11: Michael W Lodge: The Deep Seabed


• 12: Malcolm D Evans: Maritime Boundary Delimitation


• 13: Erik J. Molenaar: Port and Coastal States


• 14: Richard A Barnes: Flag States


• 15: Helmut Tuerk: Landlocked and Geographically Disadvantaged States


• 16: Hans Corell: The United Nations: A Practitioner's Perspective


• 17: James Harrison: Law of the Sea Convention Institutions


• 18: Bernard H. Oxman: Courts and Tribunals: The ICJ, ITLOS, and Arbitral Tribunals


• 19: Aldo Chircop: The International Maritime Organization


• 20: Rosemary Rayfuse: Regional Fisheries Management Organisations


• 21: Karen N Scott: Integrated Oceans Management: A New Frontier in Marine Environmental Protection


• 22: Nele Matz-Luck and Johannes Fuchs: Marine Living Resources


• 23: Elizabeth A Kirk: Science and the International Regulation of Marine Pollution


• 24: Yoshifumi Tanaka: Navigational Rights and Freedoms


• 25: Tim Stephens and Donald R Rothwell: Marine Scientific Research


• 26: Natalie Klein: Maritime Security


• 27: Irini Papanicolopulu: The Mediterranean Sea


• 28: Keyuan Zou: The South China Sea


• 29: Ronán Long: North-East Atlantic and the North Sea


• 30: David Freestone and Clive Schofield: The Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico


• 31: Alex G Oude Elferink: The Indian Ocean and the Law of the Sea: A Work in Progress


• 32: Karen N Scott and David L Vanderzwaag: Polar Oceans and Law of the Sea


• 33: Robin M Warner: Conserving Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Co-Evolution and Interaction with the Law of the Sea


• 34: Tim Stephens: Warming Waters and Souring Seas: Climate Change and Ocean Acidification


• 35: Edward J Goodwin: Threatened Species and Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems


• 36: Joanna Mossop: Marine Bioprospecting


• 37: Anna Petrig: Piracy


• 38: James Kraska: Military Operations


• 39: Donald R Rothwell, Alex G Oude Elferink, Karen N Scott, and Tim Stephens: Charting the Future for the Law of the Sea

Donald R. Rothwell is Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Australia where he has taught since 2006, and was previously Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney (2004-2006). His research areas include the law of the sea, the law of the polar regions, international security law, and international law in Australia. He is author, co-author and editor of 16 books.
Alex G. Oude Elferink is Deputy Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea at the School of Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His research interests include the law of the sea, the law of the polar regions, and the relationship between international law and international relations.
Karen N. Scott is a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research interests include Antarctic law and policy, the law of the sea and international environmental law. She is the editor of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and a member of the Advisory Board to Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury.
Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia. He is President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.