There is no single treaty regulating the Arctic Ocean, nor a regional seas programme. Written in 2015, this article was intended to show how there existed, during the Obama administration, the possibility to create a legally binding treaty protecting the Arctic marine environment. Today (2019),...

The nuclear power plant in Temelin, Czech Republic, which is located only approximately 50 km from the Austrian and German borders has been the source of a longstanding and at times bitter dispute between the Czech Republic and Austria. It is far from unusual that nuclear power plants are...

It is disputed, whether non-national or transnational law rather than the law of a state, e.g. Swiss law, can be the applicable law in international commercial arbitration, and therefore, if non-national lex mercatoria can be the sole applicable law in International Commercial Arbitration. Even...

The paper examines problems related to the GATT and International Environmental Law posed by the dispute between the United States and Mexico over U.S. import prohibitions for tuna which has not been caught in a Dolphin-friendly manner. In particular the Yellowfin Tuna of the Eastern Pacific has...

Marine pollution is a key concern in international environmental law and a threat to communities which are living along coasts and are dependent on marine living resources for their income and food security. While the international law of the sea provides coastal states with legal tools for the...

In the Arctic, climate change is a reality already today (Fountain, 2021). Anthropogenic climate change leads to warmer temperatures in the Arctic three times as fast as the global average (Deshayes, 2021). Climate change has multiple impacts on the daily lives of those who call the Arctic their...