ABSTRACT
The relevance of Part XIII, 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, governing Marine Scientific Research, within public international law scholarship is recognized. The Division for Oceans Affairs and the Law of the Sea revised guide 2010 advocates for a loose definition of Marine Scientific Research according to which "the validation by the coastal State of a given [MSR] project is what, in practice, defines its nature". The usefulness of Marine Scientific Research activity is clearly stated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in his 2010 Annual Report on Oceans and Law of the Sea. Complexity of subject-matter and field-compartmentalization affect the agendas, dynamics, and content of institutional negotiations that are necessary to achieve an effective implementation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Marine Scientific Research regime worldwide.
