By Otto Spijkers Otto Spijkers is university lecturer in international and European law at Leiden University College (LUC), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. Before joining LUC, Otto was professor of international law at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies of Wuhan University and at the Research Institute of Environmental Law of the same university. Before moving to Wuhan, he worked at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law and the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea at Utrecht University. He wrote his dissertation, entitled The United Nations, the Evolution of…