REBO Research Day Resilient Societies Utrecht, 25 June 2018
S
USTAINABLEO
CEANERC StG Agreement No 639070 2015 - 2020
Sustainable Ocean Project Law of the
Sea
Energy Law Climate
Change Law
Our understanding of regime interaction
• Interactions can be:
1. Conflicting 2. Synergetic 3. Neutral
• Factors influencing interactions:
1. Drafting periods
2. Different institutional structures
3. Existence or lack of parallel membership
4. Divergent (and sometimes competing) interests
• Three characteristic dimensions of regime interaction:
1. Interaction of goals
2. Interaction between institutions
3. Interaction between legal norms (treaty conflicts)
Research question and structure
How does the law strike a balance between competing interests at sea and contribute to the sustainable use of the oceans?
WP1
General Theoretical Framework
PI
S. Trevisanut
WP3
Which governance for the offshore industry?
PhD
N. Giannopoulos
WP2
How flexible is the LOSC regime?
R. Roland HolsPhD t Junior researcher N. Mileva
Expected results and contribution to the field
• Develop a new line of research
• Theory of interest- and regime- interaction in ocean governance
1. how the relevant legal frameworks interact 2. how to solve possible tensions/incoherencies
between the legal frameworks
3. how energy and climate change law are re- shaping ocean governance
• Develop legal tools
• Develop a research database
1st Workshop – Regime Interaction in
Ocean Governance: Problems, theories and methods (19-20 April 2018)
• Twofold aim:
1) dissecting the concept of ocean governance in order to have a better understanding of the regime interaction taking place therein;
2) testing one of the premises of the project
Regime interaction in international law does not consist necessarily of a problem to be solved but of a
phenomenon to be better understood so as to be also (sometimes) benefitted from.
• Structure of the workshop
• Session I – The Many Facets of Ocean Governance
• Understand / delimite ocean governance
• Identify the problems
• Session II – Theoretical approaches to regime interaction and international governance
• Explore theoretical approaches
• Get inspired
• Session III – Methods of interaction
• Identify patterns of interactions
• Analyse existing and potential legal tools / method
2nd Workshop - Theory of interest- and regime- interaction in ocean governance at the test of the practitioners (Winter 2019-2020)
• Preparatory work:
1. Map interests and identify relevant stakeholders
• Series of (small) meetings 2. Draft briefs/recommendations
• Twofold aim:
1. Present some of the final results of the research team
• PI and two PhD students
2. Receive feedback from the practitioners
• Theory and legal tools
SustainableOcean Database (pilot)
• Brings together academic sources related to the three main dimensions of the project
• Suitable for practitioners, researchers and students
• Selected bibliography
• Open to audience comments and suggestions
• Pilot: https://sustainableocean.sites.uu.nl/
For further information :
www.uu.nl/en/research/sustainable-ocean
@SusOcean
