This projects builds on the 2021 Declaration by ASEAN Leaders on a Blue Economy established with ocean sustainability and a rules-based ocean governance at its core; a core which itself relies on the legal framework set out by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and related bodies and instruments, for all activities in the oceans and seas. It seeks to: (i) provide tools for the implementation of this Declaration, (ii) develop the literacy of global and regional law and policy development on the protection of the marine environment that is applicable in ASEAN, (iii) enhance the visibility of the work of ASEAN institutions on the marine environment; and (iv) more generally develop the scholarly discussion on the legal status and role of ASEAN law and policy developments and their place in international legal discourses.
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