From 2 to 5th September 2024 Mariia Vladymyrova attended the 10th Conference on Operational Maritime Law, held by NATO Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters in co-sponsorship with the U.S. Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law, the University of Basel, and in cooperation with the Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Defence. The venue gathered leading academics in law of the sea and maritime security, experts and practitioners to discuss legal challenges posed by the grey zone warfare at sea in the South China Sea, critical maritime infrastructure protection in the seas of the European North and Atlantic, as well as lessons from the latest asymmetrical naval warfare in the Red Sea and in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Apart from the panel discussions, participants worked with fictional scenarios based on possible escalatory developments in the regions of the South China Sea and the Baltic Sea to test and discuss possible legal solutions and their strategic implications.
