Steven Haines (1952-2025): In Memoriam The International Ocean Institute Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law Acknowledgements Contributors Part 1 Reflections The Ocean and Human Rights: Recent Developments Sara L. Seck and Cecilia Engler Maritime Cultural Heritage in the Time of Rising Sea Levels Emma Bartmann Marine Plastic Pollution: What Will Happen to the Global Plastics Treaty? Tony R. Walker Part 2 The Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance Governing the Deep: the Legal, Environmental, and Strategic Dynamics of U.S. and Chinese Seabed Mining Nong Hong Mining the Gap: Trade Tactics to Stall Deep Seabed Mining Veronica Leonard Exploiting the Deep Seabed: the Limits of the International Seabed Authority? Daniel Power Brazil Grants First Oil Field in the Outer Continental Shelf: Significant Challenges in Implementing Article 82 of UNCLOS Alexandre Pereira da Silva Part 3 Ocean and Climate Governance The Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement and Its Role in Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal to Combat Climate Change Wil Burns and Romany M. Webb Fostering the Canadian Regulatory Framework of Offshore Wind Energy through Ecological Sustainability Mohamad Alikhani Protecting Major Ocean Carbon Sinks: Blue Carbon and Beyond Tim C. Jennerjahn, Raimund Bleischwitz, Judith Reise and Achim Schlüter Part 4 Marine Resource Management and Conservation Offshore Oil and Gas Liability, Financial Security and International Regulation: towards an International Convention Aldo Brandani Management of Environmental Issues in the Persian Gulf Subba Rao V. Durvasula and Nageswara Rao V.

Chava Oil and Gas Production Overriding Marine Conservation? Regulatory Tensions at Acreage Release in Offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Choyon Kumar Saha, Angela V. Carter, Jessica Rutherford, Joanne Ellis and Gail S. Fraser Towards a More Effective Participation of Developing States in the BBNJ Agreement Implementation Vu Hai Dang Part 5 ShippingIn the Wake of Titan : Assessing Legal Challenges and Policy Considerations for Manned Submersible Craft Ali Alghneimin Charting the Regulatory Landscape of Climate Adaptation for Global Shipping: Implementation, Coordination and Communication Lamin Jawara and Tafsir Matin Johansson Digitalization and Seafarers'' Participation in Maritime Workplace Innovation Khanssa Lagdami, Tiago Fonseca and Laura Carballo Piñeiro Part 6 Maritime Security The Arctic as a Microcosm of What to Expect with Global Maritime Security under the Second Trump Administration Eleanor Wright and Elizabeth M. De Santo Maritime Security in the Caspian Region: Legal Frameworks and Cooperative Mechanisms Dinara Osmanova, Bagdat Rakhmetulina, Saule Kapsalyamova, Yerlan Nauryzbayev, Yerbol Baizhanov Part 7 Book ReviewsJustin Alger and U. Rashid Sumaila, eds., A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance Alistair J. Hobday Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás, Capitalism and the Sea : The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World Ntina Tzouvala Laura Carballo Piñero and Maximo Q. Meija Jr.

, eds., Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the International Maritime Organization Gillian Grant Ho Jeong Dan, Environmental Damage Caused by Marine Litter : International Regulation and Responsibility Tony R. Walker Elizabeth M. De Santo, Securitizing Marine Protected Areas : Geopolitics , Environmental Justice and Science Deborah Curran Ellen J. Eftestøl, Anu Bask and Maximilian Huemer, eds., Towards a Zero - Emissions and Digitalized Transport Sector Anastasia Christodoulou Savitri Jetoo, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Nina Tynkkynen, and Anna Törnroosm eds., Understanding Marine Changes : Environmental Knowledge and Methods of Research Sondra Eger Catherine Jones, ed., Governing Oceans : Policy Development , Implementation and Evaluation John Duff Isaac B.

Kardon, China '' s Law of the Sea : The New Rules of Maritime Order Pham Ngoc Minh Trang Nengye Liu and Shirley V. Scott, The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis Cecilia Engler Alexander Lott, ed., Maritime Security Law in Hybrid Warfare David Letts Gabriela A. Oanta, ed., The Presence of International Organizations in the Evolution of the International Law of the Sea : Thirty Years since the Entry into Force of UNCLOS Gudmundur Eiriksson Henrik Ringbom and Aldo Chircop, eds., The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships : A Commentary Malgosia Fitzmaurice Zhen Sun, Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone : Conflict and Stability in the Law of the Sea Camille Goodman Erika Techera and Joy McCann, The Unruly Ocean : Law and Justice in the World '' s Oceans , Seas and Shorelines Simon Kow Appendices Annual Report of the International Ocean Institute Report of the International Ocean Institute, 2024 Selected Documents and Proceedings Oceans and the Law of the Sea Report of the Secretary-General, 11 March 2025 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Report of the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of States Parties, 23-27 June 2025 Report on the Work of the United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea at Its Twenty-Fifth Meeting, 16-19 June 2025 Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue 2025: Informal Summary Report by the Co-facilitators of the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue 2025, 30 September 2025 Our Ocean, Our Future: United for Urgent Action - Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly on 30 June 2025 Index.