Erik Franckx is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Institute for European Studies (Brussels, Belgium), and holds teaching assignments at Vesalius College (Brussels, Belgium), the University of Kent at Canterbury (Brussels School of International Studies ; Brussels, Belgium), and the Université Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). He is member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague, The Netherlands). Philippe Gautier is Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Hamburg, Germany).