Legal Aspects of China’s Dispute and it Neighbors over Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than one hundred and fifty maritime features which is in possession of countries that are located around the South China Sea. There has always been a sovereignty dispute between China and its neighbors over it, however all efforts to find a solution through negotiation did not work so far. Accordingly, The Philippines which is more close to The Spratly Islands and thus has more benefits there than other states, brought the case to the only competent adjudicative body i.e. the arbitration proceeding. This essay will analyze different legal aspects of the case from the perspective of contemporary international law before and after that both states bound themselves to the UN Convention on the law of the sea.