This article examines a form of regulatory capture that occurs when significant ambiguity exists regarding the environmental protection standards for new types of activities in the marine environment. To begin with, there is little research that categorizes the typologies of regulatory capture...

Under international law, state's territorial sovereignty ends at its boundaries and any hydrocarbons reservoirs that straddle across would belong to a different state with control over such territory. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) provides a legal framework for...

This paper traces the development of the Australian offshore petroleum legislative framework, which is comprised of Commonwealth and State acts, regulations and administrative guidelines. First this paper looks at how the present arrangements have been arrived at, touching on major developments...