On 6 October 2016, President Carl Baudenbacher attended the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He spoke on a panel, chaired by the Vice-President of ITLOS Boualem Bouguetaia, on improving working methods in international adjudication. The other panel speakers were Judge Ronny Abraham, President of the International Court of Justice and Judge Joseph Akl of ITLOS. Panel discussants included Judges Jean-Pierre Cot, Albert Hoffmann and Tafsir Ndiaye all of ITLOS. The President also attended the solemn ceremony to mark the 20th Anniversary of ITLOS on 7 October 2016 in the City Hall of Hamburg. The ceremony was attended by more than 500 guests and included speeches given by Mr Joachim Gauck, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Olaf Scholz, First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Golitsyn, President of ITLOS.