The Rhodes Academy
About the Academy
The Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy is an international collegial institution that offers a three-week summer course in Rhodes, Greece.
The basic objective of the Rhodes Academy is to promote the rule of law in the world’s oceans.
The Academy provides an educational forum for discussion of the principles of modern oceans law and policy, thereby fostering a broader common understanding of and adherence to the rule of law as set out in international agreements and state practice.
Cooperative sponsors
The Rhodes Academy is a cooperative undertaking sponsored by the:
- Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of New Hampshire (USA)
- Aegean Institute of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Law (Rhodes, Greece)
- Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland)
- Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (Heidelberg, Germany)
- Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea,Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Associate sponsors
The Korea Maritime Institute (Busan, Republic of Korea) and the Research Center of the Sea and the Maritime Law and Policy at Ankara University (Turkey) are associate sponsors.
The current directors are Robert Beckman, Tomas H. Heidar, John Norton Moore, Alex Oude Elferink, Nikos Skourtos, and Rüdiger Wolfrum.
