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International Law of the Sea

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Gina HeathcoteORCiD

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Abstract

This chapter provides a plural feminist analysis of the environmental components of the international law of the sea, examining how marine protection is an intrinsic component of international environmental law. The chapter demonstrates how the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and ocean governance generally, would benefit from recognition that no element of the international law of the sea is absent an environmental dimension: whether law establishing or regulating maritime jurisdictions, maritime trade, maritime scientific research, areas beyond national jurisdiction, shipping, navigation, fishing, or security at sea. In examining the interplay of international environmental law, UNCLOS, and ocean governance, the chapter provides a prompt for enriched feminist methodologies that articulate a decolonial feminist ocean perspective, or a hydrofeminism.

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Author(s): Heathcote G

Editor(s): Katherine Keane and Rowena Maguire

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: In Press

Book Title: Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to International Environmental Law

Year: 2026

Acceptance date: 22/10/2025

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Place Published: Cheltenham

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