Carving Up Ukraine: What About the Azov Sea?

Carving Up Ukraine: What About the Azov Sea?

Carving Up Ukraine: What About the Azov Sea? Among other things, the ongoing negotiations to end hostilities in the Russia-Ukraine War include a maritime ceasefire agreement for halting hostilities in the Black Sea. At this stage, no publicly available details exist...
Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer

Cluster Munitions and Anti-Personnel Land Mines: An Explainer Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has ignited discussions within and between NATO States concerning the international conventions that ban the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster...
Ukraine Symposium – Sunk in Battle but the War is Not Over: Who Owns the Moskva Now?

Ukraine Symposium – Sunk in Battle but the War is Not Over: Who Owns the Moskva Now?

Ukraine Symposium – Sunk in Battle but the War is Not Over: Who Owns the Moskva Now? The study of underwater cultural heritage, and that of sunken warships, has typically focussed on the legal protections surrounding a site in the years, or often centuries, after the...
Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea

Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea

Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea In an Articles of War post earlier this year, Ben Rothchild and Mark Jessup addressed the under-appreciated challenges—operational, navigational, and legal—posed by the relatively extensive mine-laying...
Russia’s Interdiction of Neutral Merchant Vessels and the Law of the Sea

Russia’s Interdiction of Neutral Merchant Vessels and the Law of the Sea

Russia’s Interdiction of Neutral Merchant Vessels and the Law of the Sea On August 12, 2023, the Russian patrol ship Vasily Bykov intercepted the Turkish-owned, Palau-flagged merchant ship Sukru Okan in the Black Sea between its point of embarkation in Chalkis, Greece...