This piece offers the Guest Editors’ Introduction to this Special Issue of The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law—dedicated to the South China Sea. It outlines the history of the 2015 Brussels Conference at which the papers in the Special Issue were first presented, notes the key presentations and introduces the authors. Four subject matters are addressed: fisheries, navigation, the regime of islands, and international dispute settlement.

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引言：南海：国际法视角

这篇文章提供了客座编辑对《国际海洋和沿海法杂志》这一专刊的介绍——专门讨论南海问题。它概述了 2015 年布鲁塞尔会议的历史，在该会议上首次发表了特刊中的论文，记录了主要发表内容并介绍了作者。涉及四个主题：渔业、航海、岛屿制度和国际争端解决。