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High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges identifies gaps in and challenges to the existing legal regime in the protection and preservation of the marine environment of the high seas, including sensitive marine areas. The gaps identified in the book include the failure of liability and compensation schemes to cover pollution of the high seas and the fact that no state has the responsibility to clean up pollution of the high seas. One common theme of the book is that it is necessary to identify a state other than flag states, port states or coastal states, which should have an obligation to exercise jurisdiction and control over certain activities on the high seas.
About the author
Robert C. Beckman, LL.M., is the Head of the Ocean Law and Policy programme and the former Director of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He has published widely on ocean law and policy issues.
Millicent McCreath, LL.M., is a Research Associate with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
J. Ashley Roach, LL.M. is the Visiting Senior Principal Research Fellow with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He was attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and has published widely on law of the sea issues.
Zhen Sun, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow with the Ocean Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. She has published several articles and chapters on the law of the sea.
