Writings
Selected publications (links for personal and academic use only)
Be Careful What You Wish For: Why the International Seabed Authority should not ask for an Advisory Opinion (July, 2026)
Deep Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea: Strategic Competition, Institutional Failure, and the Third Age, 108 International Legal Studies 256 (2026)
Speech to Fifty-third Underwater Mining Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, 11 November 2025
Enclosure of the Oceans versus the Common Heritage of Mankind, Charles Stockton Distinguished Essay 2021, 97 Int’l L. Stud. 803, Vol. 97 (2021)
Lodge MW, The International Seabed Authority and Disputes over Deep Seabed Mining, Chapter in Ruiz Fabri, Franckx, Benatar and Meshel (eds.), A Bridge over Troubled Water, Brill Nijhoff (2021)
Lodge MW, Regulating Access and Sustainable Development of Deep-Sea Minerals for the Benefit of All Humanity, Journal of the Marine Technology Society, Vol 55 No 6 (2021)
Van Nijen et al, The Development of a Payment Regime for Deep Sea Mining Activities in the Area through Stakeholder Participation, in 34 Intl. Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2019)
Seabed mining: International Seabed Authority environmental management plan for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. A partnership approach, in 49 Marine Policy (2014) 66-72, co-author with Johnson, Le Gurun, Wengler, Weaver and Gunn
The Common Heritage of Mankind invited contribution to the Special Edition of the Intl. Journal of Marine and Coastal Law to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in 27 Intl. Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2012)
Lodge, MW, Reflections on the Status and Prospects for Deep Seabed Mining in 2018, Keynote speech at Forty-second Annual Conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, Beijing (2018)
Lodge MW, The International Seabed Authority and the Exploration and Exploitation of the Deep Seabed, Revue Belge de Droit International, 2014/1, Editions Bruylant, Bruxelles (2014)
Lodge MW, New Approaches to Fisheries Enforcement, Review of European, Comparative & International Law 2(3) 277-284 (1993)
Artwork by Anthony Smith (Jamaica)
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Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL), Entries on The International Seabed Authority and The Area (updated online)
Lodge MW, Squires D and Segersen K, Sharing and Preserving the Resources in the Deep Sea: Challenges for the International Seabed Authority, Intl. Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 32 (2017) 427-457
Lodge MW, Squires D and Segersen K, Environmental Policy for Deep Seabed Mining, Chapter in Sharma, R (ed.) Environmental Management of Deep-Sea Mining, Springer 2018
Chapter 11: The Deep Seabed, in Rothwell (ed.), Oxford Handbook on the International Law of the Sea, Oxford University Press (2015)
Protecting the Marine Environment of the Deep Ocean, in Rayfuse (ed.), Research Handbook on Marine Environmental Law, Edward Elgar (2015)
Peaceful Order in the World’s Oceans: Essays in Honour of Satya N. Nandan, co-editor with Myron Nordquist, Brill (2014)
Implementation of the Common Heritage of Mankind, in Scheiber and Paik (eds.), Regions, Institutions and the Law of the Sea, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden (2013)
The International Seabed Authority and the Arctic, in Wasum-Reiner, Winkelmann, Tiroch (eds.) Arctic Science, International Law and Climate Change, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Berlin (2012)
Article 82 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Z. Gao et al (eds.) Scientific and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the Continental Shelf and the Area, China Ocean Press, Beijing (2012)
Designing Networks of Chemosynthetic Ecosystem Reserves in the Deep Sea, in 36 Marine Policy (2012) 378-381, co-author with Van Dover et al
Some Legal and Policy Developments Relating to the Establishment of a Representative Network of Protected Areas in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, in 26 Intl. Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2011)