The development of the law of the sea convention: the role of international courts and tribunals, by ØysteinJensen Published by Edward Elgar, 2020, xvii + 280 pp., £90.00, hardback.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been in force for over 25 years. This vast multilateral framework treaty provides a comprehensive regime for the oceans. It codified pre-existing customary international law and introduced new legal concepts, such as the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The application and interpretation of the provisions of the Convention have been subject to several inter-State disputes, which is the focus of this excellent edited collection. The reader is presented with nine clear and comprehensive contributions on a range of matters from leading scholars and practitioners in international law of the sea, which aim to explore the development of UNCLOS through the interpretation of its provisions by international courts and tribunals in the context of settlement of inter-State disputes.