The Law of the Sea and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Areas of Hydrocarbon Potential: A Review of Global Hot Spots

The United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea (’UNCLOS’) is hailed as one of the most significant multilateral legal agreements executed in the past few decades. However, its shortcomings are neither trivial nor inconsequential, especially regarding maritime boundary disputes involving hydrocarbon resources.

Vivek Chandra is a natural gas and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) entrepreneur with over 30 years of global technical, commercial, financial, and project development experience. Dr. Chandra is the author of Fundamentals of Natural Gas: An International Perspective, a hardcover book currently in its second edition, and has degrees in Geophysical Engineering (Colorado School of Mines), Energy Management (U. of Pennsylvania), Petroleum Economics (IFP France), Commercial Law (Deakin University Australia) and a Ph.D. in International Law with dissertation on disputed international maritime boundaries (Deakin University Australia).