title: How should international judicial bodies constituted under UNCLOS determine if they have jurisdiction over disputes involving territorial sovereignty?
abstract: For the international judicial bodies constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), there are mainly three conditions which limit their jurisdiction to extend to disputes pertaining to the interpretation and application of UNCLOS which involve sovereignty issue: firstly, if the nature of the dispute is deemed as a sovereignty dispute; secondly, if the prerequisite to adjudicate/arbitrate the dispute is to resolve the sovereignty dispute; and thirdly, if the adju
journal: Frontiers in Marine Science