Lecturer: Prof. Lawrence Folajimi Awosika

Professor Lawrence Folajimi Awosika is a marine geophysicist and a former and retired Director (Marine Geology/Geophysics Department) with the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR) Lagos. He has been a member since year 1997 (four Commissions so far) and past chairperson (2012-2017) of the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) with headquarters at the United Nations New York USA. He has chaired and served in many sub-commissions of the CLCS. He is a member of the Nigerian maritime working group of the United Nations Mixed Commission for the Nigeria/Cameroon boundary established to implement the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Guest Speaker:

Prof. Tang Yong, Member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)

Discussant:

Prof. Michael Shengti-Gau, Professor of International Law, Institute of International Law, Wuhan University

Chairperson:

Prof. Kong Lingjie, Professor of International Law and Associate Dean at CIBOS, Wuhan University

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PROGRAMME

OUTLINE

1.       United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part VI- Continental Shelf

2.       Geological Principles in Article 76

3.       Delineation of the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 M

4.       Other Provisions Regarding the Continental Shelf (Articles 77-85)

References and Materials

Short list of references：

1.       BUSCH, Signe Veierud, Establishing Continental Shelf Limits Beyond 200 Nautical Miles by the Coastal State: A Right of Involvement for Other States? (Leiden: Brill, 2016), https://brill.com/view/title/31976?language=en

2.       MAGNÚSSON, Bjarni Már. The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Delineation, Delimitation and Dispute Settlement (Leiden: Brill, 2015), https://brill.com/view/title/25106?language=en

3.       MCDORMAN, Ted L., The Continental Shelf. In: ROTHWELL, D., OUDE ELFERINK, A. G., SCOTT, K. N., STEPHENS, T. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 181–202, https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198715481.001.0001/law-9780198715481-chapter-9

4.       NGUYEN, Lan Ngoc, UNCLOS Tribunals and the Development of the Outer Continental Shelf Regime, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 67(2), 2018, pp. 425–454, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-and-comparative-law-quarterly/article/abs/unclos-tribunals-and-the-development-of-the-outer-continental-shelf-regime/AF83E2CC98BC9BE7A8E037F8A4FBBCFA

5.       YU, Jia, JI-LU, Wu, The Outer Continental Shelf of Coastal States and the Common Heritage of Mankind, Ocean Development & International Law 42(4), 2011, pp. 317–328, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00908320.2011.619366?journalCode=uodl20

Selected cases:

1.       International Court of Justice. North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Germany/Denmark; Germany/Netherlands), Judgment (20 February 1969), https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/51

2.       International Court of Justice. Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia), Judgment (19 November 2012), https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/124

3.       International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary Between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh/Myanmar), Judgment (14 March 2012), https://www.itlos.org/en/main/cases/list-of-cases/case-no-16/

4.     International Court of Justice. Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya), Judgment (12 October 2021), https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/161

LECTURE

session 1. article 76 of the united nations convention on the law of the sea and the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf (pp.1-42)