On the picture Justice Antonio T. Carpio.
By Roy Lie A Tjam.
Under the auspices of The International Institute of Social Studies and the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, Justice Antonio T. Carpio, Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, delivered a lecture with the theme “The South China Sea: Perspectives from Law and History.”
The venue was the International Institute of Social Studies, Kortenaerkade The Hague.
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Justice Antonio T. Carpio tackled issues relating to the South China Sea dispute including its scope, the nature of the arbitration case filed by the Philippines before an arbitral panel under UNCLOS, and the legal questions raised by the Philippines in the arbitration case.
Using official documents, government pronouncements and academic studies, including historical documents and maps, the lecture assessed the merits of the nine-dash line.
Taking into account the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law, the lecture also discussed policy considerations relevant to the conflicting claims and the current arbitration case. The lecture was well attended, with Justice Antonio T. Carpio answering questions put before him.
A representative of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in The Hague posed questions and offered copies of a summary of the Chinese position on the matter of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration initiated by the Republic of the Philippines. The afternoon was concluded with a networking reception.
