On May 6, 2013, the Stimson Center and the Washington Foreign Law Society co-hosted a panel on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the recent action brought by the Philippines against China at the UNCLOS tribunal. About 70 people, from foreign media to U.S. legal scholars to diplomats, attended the panel and engaged in a lively post-panel discussion.

Panelists included Dr. John Norton Moore, the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law, Director of the Center for National Security Law and Director of Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law; Retired Navy Capt. J. Ashley Roach, former attorney adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State during 1988-2009 with responsibility for law of the sea matters; Dr. Jonathan D. Pollack, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and former professor of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Naval War College and chairman of the College’s Strategic Research Department; and Richard Cronin, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Stimson Center.

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