Maritime Cooperation in Contested Waters: Addressing Legal Challenges in East and Southeast Asian Waters

Maritime Cooperation in Contested Waters
Addressing Legal Challenges in East and Southeast Asian Waters

by Clive Schofield
February 14, 2012

This is the introduction to the report “Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation.” Principal investigator Clive Schofield (University of Wollongong), led a team of international scholars who examined key challenges and developments in the international legal sphere affecting maritime jurisdictional disputes in East and Southeast Asia and considered options for managing disputes in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Gulf of Thailand.

This is the introduction to the report “Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation.” Principal investigator Clive Schofield (University of Wollongong) led a team of international scholars who examined key challenges and developments in the international legal sphere affecting maritime jurisdictional disputes in East and Southeast Asia and considered options for managing disputes in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Gulf of Thailand.