The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has been recognised by the International Maritime Law Institute for its “meritorious contribution towards the development, interpretation and implementation of international maritime law.” The award was conferred on the Tribunal at the 2008 graduation ceremony of the Institute which took place on 3 May 2008 in Malta. In fact, the workload of the Tribunal in its first decade of operation has been relatively light. Since its establishment following the entry into force of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in November 1994, the Tribunal has been…