The legal regime of artificial islands
Alex Oude Elferink gave a presentation on The legal regime of artificial islands – An analysis in the light of recent developments in the North Sea at the International Conference UNCLOS and the Question of Artificial Islands beyond National Jurisdiction hosted by the Indonesian Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, Universitas Padjajaran, Bandung, Indonesia, 21-22 November 2018.
He presented the main findings of a report on the legal regime of artificial islands commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. The report Analyse van het internationaalrechtelijk kader inzake kunstmatige eilanden in de Nederlandse exclusieve economische zone (EEZ) (Analysis of the public international law framework in relation of artificial islands in the Netherlands EEZ), which was co-authored by Alex Oude Elferink and Otto Spijkers, is available online at the NILOS website.