Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of the International Conventions, Statues Other Arrangements
A. International Conventions
B. National Statutes and Instruments and Other Arrangements
Domestic Court Cases and Other Materials
About This Book
Contents
About the Authors
Symbols and Abbreviations
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Submarine Cables
1.3 Law on Submarine Cables
1.4 Primary Problem with the Submarine Cable System
1.5 Literature Review Revealing the Protection and Regulation Challenges of the Submarine Cable System

1.6 Objectives of the Study
1.7 Research Methodology
1.8 The Scope of the Study
1.9 Chapterization
References
2 Submarine Cables: Key Principles and International Law of the Sea
2.1 Background
2.2 Growth, Importance, and Challenges to the Submarine Cable Infrastructure
2.3 Laying and Protection of Submarine Cable-Requirement of Regulation on Marine Affairs
2.4 Fundamental Principles and International Instruments on Submarine Cables
2.5 Convention for the Protection of Telegraph Cables 1884 (the Cable Convention 1884)

2.6 The League of Nations Conference for the Codification of International Law 1930 at the Hague (Hague Conference)
2.7 UNCLOS I-1958
2.8 UNCLOS II-1960
2.9 UNCLOS III 1982-The Laying and Protection of Submarine Cables
2.10 International Institutional Framework Dealing with the Submarine Cables
2.11 Draft Convention for the Protection and Repair of Submarine Cable Infrastructure
2.12 Ambiguities in the International Regime on Submarine Cables and the Way Forward
2.13 Summary
References

3 Challenges to the Laying and Protection of Submarine Cable in Selected Jurisdictions-A Legal and Comparative Analysis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Basis for Identification of the Selected Jurisdictions
3.3 Legal Analysis of the Law on Submarine Cables in Selected Jurisdictions-An Overview
3.3.1 Asia
3.3.2 European Union
3.3.3 North America
3.3.4 South America
3.3.5 Africa
3.4 Comparative and Legal Analysis on Legal Instruments and Other Arrangements Across the Selected Jurisdictions and Comparative Chart on Instruments on Submarine Cables in the Selected Jurisdictions

3.5 Final Report-Protection of Submarine Cables Through Spatial Separation
3.6 Reliability of Global Undersea Communications Cable Infrastructure (ROGUCCI)
3.7 Summary
References
4 An Integrated Approach toward Submarine Cables in Australia and New Zealand-A Way Forward
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Australia and New Zealand-Dedicated Legal Regimes on Submarine Cable
4.3 Australia
4.3.1 Background of Schedule 3A
4.3.2 Definition and Scope of the Schedule
4.3.3 Schedule 3A and the ACMA Act on Protection Zone Related to Submarine Cables