Professor Ann Powers:

Two Pace students, Ann Bermont (’14) and Anthony Papetti (’14), were among those responding to a request by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for assistance  preparing briefing materials for IUCN’s oral presentation in a case before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Case #21 Request for an advisory opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) involves the rights and obligations of coastal states in managing fisheries and preventing illegal fishing. It will be heard by the Tribunal in September in Hamburg.