Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Unit

Synopsis

Topics include: UNCLOS III - history of negotiation; regime implementation; maritime boundaries; territorial demarcation - exclusive economic zones (EEZ); living marine resource management - fisheries; straddling stocks; environmental protection - point-source pollution; non-living marine resource management - oil and gas; off-shore drilling; artificial islands and installations; the Deep Sea Bed Authority; international dispute settlement; International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will have developed:

1. a coherent, critical and historically informed understanding of current international law principles and rules for management of marine resources;
2. a well developed ability to use these principles and rules in simulated situations of interstate claims, conflict and dispute settlement;
3. a well developed understanding of the political, economic, cultural and other contexts for rule evolution and current use;
4. a well developed understanding of the strategic implications of this aspect of international law for Australia;
5. a broad understanding of the role and use of diplomatic conferences in the progressive development of the international law of the sea; and
6. a broad understanding of trajectories for further evolution of these principles and rules.

Assessment

2 Research memo assignments (1000 words each and 12.5% each): 25%;
Group assessment exercise - simulation adversarial team negotiations - bilateral fisheries and offshore petroleum access agreements/treaties: 20%; and
Research assignment (4400 words): 55%

Contact hours

Three hours of lectures per week

Prerequisites

LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104

Co-requisites

LAW4122

Prohibitions

LAW7033