The Future of the LOSC: Questions, Questions, Questions

Abstract

This article reflects on the future of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) as a framework for ocean governance. It considers the broader normative framework in which the LOSC operates, some current challenges to the LOSC, and how the different parts of the LOSC relate to each other. It concludes that the broader geopolitical landscape in which the LOSC functions arguably has changed. This requires considering what this implies for the LOSC. Some of the present challenges to the LOSC arguably threaten its core concepts.