Thang NGUYEN DANG

The Functions of Joint Zones in International Law

Start Date: 2008/10.

End Date: 2012/09.

* Education:

- Sept. 2005 - Sept. 2006 : LLM  in Public International Law, Nottingham University, Nottingham, United Kingdom;

- Sept. 1995 - Jul. 1999 :  BA in International Relations, Institute for International Relations (now Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), Hanoi, Vietnam.

 

* Work Experience:

- Jan. 2000 - Sept. 2005, Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2008 : Legal Expert, Department of International Law and Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam;

- Sometime Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of International Law, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam.

 

* Other positions:

- Member of Asian Society of International Law, from December 2008;

- Associate, Centre for South China Sea Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, from April 2011;

- National Correspondent on Treaty & International Law Events for Journal of East Asia and International Law and YIJUN Institute of International Law, from September 2011. 

Public International Law, Law of the Sea, the Law of Terrritorial Acquisition, Jurisdiction, Settlement of International Disputes

* Peer-reviewed articles:

- 'Vietnam-China Agreement on Basic Principles Guiding the Settlement of Sea Issues: Implications for Disputes in the South China Sea?' International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law  (forthcoming)

- ‘China’s Nine-Dotted Lines in the South China Sea: The 2011 Exchange of Diplomatic Notes”, ( as first author; second author: NGUYEN Hong Thao), (2012) 43(1) Ocean Development & International Law 35-56;

- ‘Fisheries co-operation in the South China Sea and the (ir)relevance of the sovereignty question’, (2012) 2(1) Asian Journal of International Law 59 - 88;

- ‘Một số suy nghĩa về những nỗ lực của Phi-líp-pin sử dụng Tòa trọng tài quốc tế để giải quyết tranh chấp với Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông (Reflections upon the Philippines’ efforts to resort to arbitration to settle South China Sea disputes with China), (2011) 10/282 Nhà nước và Pháp luật (State & Law - - publication of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) 56 - 71;

- ‘Lệnh cấm đánh cá ở Biển Đông: Đi tìm một giải pháp khác’ (Fishing Ban in the South China Sea: In quest for an alternative solution), (2011) 8/280 Nhà nước và Pháp luật (State & Law - publication of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) 76 – 84

- The Code of Conduct in the South China Sea: The International Law Perspective (as first author; second author: NGUYEN Thi Thanh Ha), (2011) 24 International Studies (publication of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) 97 – 132 .

 

* Conference presentations:

- ‘The Functions of Joint Zones: Reflections upon Selected Joint Development Agreements’, presented at the 3rd Biennial Conference of AsianSIL- Asia and International Law: A New Era, Beijing, 27‐28 August 2011;

- ‘The Code of Conduct in the South China Sea: The International Law Perspective’, (as first author & presenter; second author: NGUYEN Thi Thanh Ha), International Conference on the South China Sea: Toward a Region of Peace, Cooperation and Progress, Manila, 5-6 July 2011;

- ‘Fisheries co-operation and the (ir)relevance of the sovereignty question’, presented at the 2nd NUS - AsianSIL Young Scholars Workshop 2010 - Asian Approaches to International Law: Theory, Institutions, Processes, and Practices, Singapore, 30 September - 01 October 2010.

 

* Miscellaneous writings:

- ‘China’s Fishing Ban in the South China Sea:
Implications for Territorial Disputes’, RSIS Commentaries No. 89/2011 dated 9 June 2011.

 

Professor James Crawford