《海洋發展和國際法》致力于有關管理海洋使用和活動的國際和比較法和政策的所有方面。它側重于海洋管理、海洋事務和各種形式的海洋利用的國際方面。在國際海洋法、國內比較海洋法、政治學、海洋經濟學、地理學、航運、海洋科學、海洋工程和其他海洋技術等相關學科發表高質量的學術著作。重點討論政策備選辦法和與政策有關的因素，以及理論和方法性質的貢獻。

Ocean Development and International Law is devoted to all aspects of international and comparative law and policy concerning the management of ocean use and activities. It focuses on the international aspects of ocean regulation, ocean affairs, and all forms of ocean utilization. The journal publishes high quality works of scholarship in such related disciplines as international law of the sea, comparative domestic ocean law, political science, marine economics, geography, shipping, the marine sciences, and ocean engineering and other sea-oriented technologies. Discussions of policy alternatives and factors relevant to policy are emphasized, as are contributions of a theoretical and methodological nature.