Forum Shopping Within the Context of Deep Sea Mining: Towards Sponsoring States of Convenience?

Forum Shopping Within the Context of Deep Sea Mining: Towards Sponsoring States of Convenience?

Global Affairs Academy
Jul 14, 2026

An address to the Ninth Annual Cambridge International Law (CILJ) Conference in April 2020, in Panel 5: International Risk Regulation at Sea: Current Issues in Fisheries, Deep Sea Mining and the Protection of the Marine Environment, by Dr Klaas Willaert, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University.