Nine Dash Line UNCLOS and When a Rock is a Rock

"Many of our Readers are not always current on the law of the seas issues which from time to time emerge under the UNCLOS regime and quite a few of us were not exactly standing by for the arbitration on the boundary issues arising in the South China Seas. Our favourite source for China-related news is published by Bill Bishop and is called Sinocism. A recent edition refers to a discussion of the landmark UNCLOS ruling by the arbitral tribunal constituted under the Convention with Peter Dutton, Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.

A copy of the 501 page Award can be accessed here:-

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2990927/PCA-Case-No-2013-19-The-South-China-Sea.pdf

The discussion is here:-

http://tinyurl.com/CSISimplication"

Fonte: The Maritime Advocate online--Issue 662.