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"New Uses and Abuses of the Seabed - Legal Challenges", Open seminar, Oslo Faculty of Law, 3 June 2016

The seabed is an area of huge interest for national states and commercial companies, both within and beyond national jurisdiction. The uses of the seabed are already multiple, but, as technologies progress, access to the seabed is getting easier and new uses appear.


Seabed uses encompass: oil and gas exploration and exploitation, mineral resources exploitation, waste disposal, carbon dioxide storage, laying of infrastructures including pipelines and cables, military uses, use of biological resources and ocean energy resources exploitation.

Which regulatory regimes apply to the exploration and exploitation of seabed resources? Is the current legal framework under notably the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) appropriate enough to deal with those new use types? Are the arising risks of abuse, conflict and pollution sufficiently taken into account and dealt with? The seminar will present current research efforts to answer those questions.


Website of the event, including full programme:
 http://www.jus.uio.no/nifs/english/research/events/2016/06-03-seabed.html
Time: June 2016 09:00 - 12:30 am
Venue: Professorboligen, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Karl Johans gate 47    

The event is free, but for practical purposes please register online by 31 May.

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