United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Lords Committee to hear evidence from academic experts in second inquiry session

The session will start at 10am and will be available to watch live or on demand at Parliament TV.             

Giving evidence virtually will be:

10am

• Dr Sofia Galani, Assistant Professor in Public International Law, Panteion University and;
• Professor Natalie Klein, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

11am

• Dr Youri van Logchem, Senior Lecturer, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University and;
• Dr Richard Caddell, Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff Law School.

Questions will include:

Human rights at sea

• What are the responsibilities of states regarding human rights at sea, and what international conventions and treaties govern these? Have new challenges emerged that the original convention did not envisage?
• What are the challenges to the effective implementation of human rights at sea? What enforcement mechanisms exist (or are needed) to pursue infringements of human rights law at sea?

Autonomous Maritime Vehicles

• To what extent do the existing international legal frameworks for maritime security, including UNCLOS, account for the use of Maritime Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) by both states and non-state actors? What are the main challenges posed by MAVs and how is international law responding to these challenges?

Government Policy

• What role does the United Kingdom play in global maritime security and enforcement of the existing international law? In which areas should the UK be more active and engaged?

Maritime Economy

• How do UNCLOS and related treaties regulate access to economic resources? Which economic maritime zones or economic resources are inadequately regulated?
• What are the new and emerging economic uses of the sea? How well does the current law of the sea deal with them? Might these new uses of the sea require new forms of regulation?