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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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