1. Introducing submarines in international law; Part I. A Legal History of Submarines: 2. The rise of the submarine: belligerency, neutrality and emerging laws of passage in World war I; 3. Regulating submarines in the inter-war period from Versailles (1919) to The Hague (1930); 4. The impact of the second Sino Japanese war and World War II; 5. The post-war settlement, the early cold war, and the 1958 law of the sea conventions; 6. To UNCLOS and beyond: strategic domination in submarine regulation; Part II.

Contemporary International Law of Submarines: 7. Regimes of passage in the territorial sea, international straits and archipelagic waters; 8. Military activities, intelligence gathering, and other submarine activities in the exclusive economic zone; 9. Submarines, threats or uses of force and the right of self-defence; 10. Submarine warfare under international law; 11. Navigational safety and sunken submarines; 12. Submarines and protection of the marine environment; 13. Submarines and criminal activity; 14.

Underwater maritime autonomous vehicles and the future of submarines.