Problematic Expansion on Jurisdiction: Some Observation on the South China Sea Arbitration

• Author: Xiaoyi Zhang
• Pages: 449-450

Jurisdiction on SCS Arbitration 449

IX JEAIL 2 (2016)

Xiaoyi Zhang

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Following its jurisdictional decision in October 2015, the arbitral tribunal constituted



     

      

       

   



 

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     

    



Keywords

UNCLOS, Annex VII, Arbitral Tribunal, Jurisdiction, South China Sea, Maritime

Delimitation

Problematic Expansion

on Jurisdiction:

Some Observation on the

South China Sea Arbitration

∗ Research fellow in China Institute for Marine Affairs (CIMA). LL.B. (Zhejiang U.), LL.M. (Indiana), Ph.D. (CUPL).

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8641-935X. The author may be contacted at: zhangxiaoyi@cima.gov.cn / Address:

#3 Maguanying Jiayuan, China Institute for Marine Affairs, State Oceanic Administration, Fengtai District, Beijing

100161 P.R. China. This paper is supported by China’s 2016 National Social Science Fund “Dilemma and Outlet of the

South China Sea Arbitration: A Procedural Perspective” (16CFX068).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2016.9.2.07