Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea State Practice of China and Japan

Dai Tamada
is Professor of International Law at Graduate School of Law, Kobe University. He holds LL.M. (Kyoto University 2000) and Ph.D. (Kyoto University 2014). His research areas cover international dispute settlement, international investment law, the law of treaties, and the law of the sea. He has been committee member in several Government organs, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and Ministry of Justice (MOJ) of Japan. His recent publications include Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada (eds.), Whaling in the Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), Dai Tamada and Philippe Achilleas (eds.), Theory and Practice of Export Control: Balancing International Security and International Economic Relations (Springer, 2017), and Piotr Szwedo, Richard Peltz-Steele and Dai Tamada (eds.), Law and Development: Balancing Principles and Values (Springer, 2019).

 

Keyuan Zou
is Professor of International Law at Dalian Maritime University, China and University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. He specializes in international law, in particular the law of the sea and international environmental law. He has published over 200 refereed English papers in more than 30 international journals and various edited books. His single-authored books include
Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and Prospects
,
China’s Marine Legal System and the Law of the Sea
,
China’s Legal Reform: Towards the Rule of Law
, and
China-ASEAN Relations and International Law
. His recent edited volumes include
Global Commons and the Law of the Sea
(2018),
Maritime Cooperation in Semi-Enclosed Seas: Asian and European Experiences
(2019), and
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Law of the Sea
(2020). He is member of Editorial Boards of
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
,
Ocean Development and International Law
,
Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy
,
Marine Policy
,
Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies
,
Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies
,
Chinese Journal of International Law
,

and Advisory Boards of
Global Journal of Comparative Law
,
Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy
, and
Korean Journal of International & Comparative Law
.