†Antonios Antapasis, Prof. University of Athens, Member of the Board of Directors of the Aegean In- stitute, Greece Frida Armas-Pfirter, Prof. Austral University, Argentina Jürgen Basedow, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany Sergio Carbone, Prof., Università di Genova, Italy Jong-Hyeon Choi, Prof., Yonsei University, Korea Robin Churchill, Prof., Dundee University, UK Jean-Pierre Cot, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, France Martin Davies, Director, Tulane Maritim e Law Centre, USA Charles Debattista, Prof., Institute of Maritim e Law, UK Sarah Derrington, Prof., University of Queensland, Australia Kuen-Chen Fu, Prof., Xiam en University for Oceans Policy and Law, China Tomotaka Fujita, Prof., University of Tokyo, Japan Maria Gavouneli, Prof., University of Athens, Mem ber of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Insti- tute, Greece Johanne Gauthier, Judge, Federal Court of Canada, Canada Stephen Girvin, Prof., University of Birmingham, UK Jose Tomas Guzman S., Executive Council of the Comité Maritime International, Chile Kari Hakapaa, Prof., University of Lapland, Finland John Hare, Prof., University of Cape Town, South Africa Tomas H. Heidar, Director, Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland, Iceland Hannu Honka, Prof., Abo Akademi, Finland Jose Juste-Ruiz, Prof., University of Valencia, Spain John Kimball, Prof., New York University, USA Laurent Lucchini, Prof., Oceanographic Institute, France Said Mahmoudi, Prof., University of Stockholm, Sweden Thomas A. Mensah, Former President and Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Ghana John Norton Moore, Prof., Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, USA Paul Myburgh, Ass. Prof., University of Auckland, New Zealand Dolliver Nelson, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Grenada Rosemary Rayfuse, Prof., University of New South W ales, Australia Tullio Scovazzi, Prof., University of Milano, Italy Alexander Skaridov, Director, Admiral Makarov State Maritim e Academy, Russia Alfred H.A. Soons, Prof., Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, The Netherlands Alan Khee-Jin Tan, Prof., National University of Singapore, Singapore Tullio Treves, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Italy Grigorios I. Tsaltas, Prof., Panteion University of Athens, Member of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Institute, Greece Antoine Vialard, Prof., Université Montesquieu -Bordeaux IV, France