In recent weeks, outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump each issued a Presidential Memorandum to withdraw extensive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for future ...

In late 2023, the United States underwent a massive expansion in territory. Its boundaries grew by approximately one million square kilometres – an area about twice the size of California – all ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Justice Thomas with opinion in Parker Drilling v. Newton In a broad, unanimous and unsurprising decision, the Supreme Court ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the ...

The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban pollution, are affecting the marine environment. Extensive research shows how this ...

The rights to the continental shelf off all Malaysia’s coasts, including Sarawak’s, belong exclusively to Petronas by virtue of the Petroleum Development Act 1974 and not to the states themselves, ...