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IX. Law of the Sea
A. Introduction
B. Nationality of Vessels
1. Customary Law
Lauritzen v. Larsen
2. Flags of Convenience
Excerpts from the LOS Convention, Articles 91, 92, 94
Questions
C. Internal and Territorial Waters
1. Baselines
a. General Provisions
Chart 9-1. LOS Convention: Sea Claims Structure
Chart 9-2. Uses
Chart 9-3. Land-Based View: Distance from Shore
Lewis M. Alexander, Baseline Delimitations and Maritime Boundaries
Fisheries Case (United Kingdom v. Norway)
Questions
b. Dealing with Islands
LOS Convention, Article 121
Questions
c. The Special Case of Archipelagic States
LOS Convention, Article 47
Notes and Conventions
2. Foreign Vessels in Internal Waters
Questions
3. Breadth of the Territorial Sea
Note
4. Rules for Passage
a. Innocent Passage
The Corfu Channel Case (United Kingdom v. Albania)
Questions
b. Passage Through International Straits and
Archipelagic Sea Lanes
D. Contiguous Zones and Hot Pursuit
Vaughan Lowe, The Development of the Concept of the Contiguous Zone
LOS Convention, Article 33
Notes and Questions
E. The Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf
1. Historical Background
The Truman Proclamations
43 U.S.C. 1332, Congressional Declaration of Policy
2. After the Truman Proclamations
D.P. O'Connell, The International Law of the Sea
3. The Law of the Sea Convention and the Current Status of
the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf
Clyde Haberman, Japanese Fight Invading Sea for Priceless Speck of Land
Notes and Questions
President Reagan, U.S. Ocean Policy
Notes and Questions
4. Opposite and Adjacent States
North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Federal Republic of Germany v. Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany v. Netherlands)
Jonathan I. Charney, Progress in International Maritime Boundary Delimitation Law
Jonathan I. Charney, International Maritime Boundaries
Questions
F. The Regime of the High Seas
Restatement Sections 521, 522; Comments & Reporters Notes
Questions
G. Dispute Settlement Under the LOS Convention
Louis B. Sohn, Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in Ocean Conflicts: Does UNCLOS III Point the Way?
Notes and Questions
H. The Deep Seabed Mining Regime and the 1994 Amendment
Statement of Ambassador David A. Colson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans
R.R. Churchill & A.V. Lowe, The Law of the Sea
Notes and Questions
I. Widespread Acceptance of the Convention
Letter of Submittal from the State Department to the President
Notes and Questions
J. Antarctica
Notes and Questions
Bibliography
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