Tuesday, July 7, 2026

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 41, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Making Sense of Portugal’s Baselines around the Archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores
    • Neil Craik & Karen N. Scott, Environmental Impact Assessment Under the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement and the Equivalence Exception
    • Luciana Fernandes Coelho, Developing and Reframing the LOSC in Changing Circumstances: The Practice of Small Island Developing States on the Consent Regime for Marine Scientific Research
    • Dawoon Jung & Nguyen Thanh Trung, Area-based Management Tools at the Interface of the BBNJ Agreement and the International Maritime Organization
    • Xuexia Liao, Characterising a Dispute and the Scope of the LOSC Tribunals’ Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae
    • Henok G. Gebrezgabiher, Senai W. Andemariam, & Isaias T. Berhe, Ethiopia’s Persistent Claim for Outlets to the Sea: Issues and Alternatives under International Law
    • Ekaterina Antsygina, Equity in the Delimitation of Continental Shelves
  • Current Legal Developments
    • Jianping Guo, The 2018 Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement and the 2023 BBNJ Agreement
    • Valentin Schatz, Review of Objections to RFMO Conservation and Management Measures under EU Law: Bloom v. Commission
    • Nivedita S, Youna Lyons, & Denise Cheong, Floating Nuclear at IMO: Protection of the Marine Environment from Potential Releases of Radioactive Substances
    • Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien & Josefa Beyer, Stalled at the Negotiating Table: Updates from INC-5.2 Towards a Global Plastics Treaty
    • Hyewon Jang, Yeon S. Chang, & Young Sok Kim, Legal Frameworks of the CCUS Act and International Cooperation via the London Protocol in the Republic of Korea