The law of the sea is a body of customs, treaties, and international agreements by which governments maintain order, productivity,…
The first attempt at codification of the customary law of maritime delimitation started with the 1930 Hague Conference under the…
The thalweg line is a concept of river law, defined under customary law either as “the mid-line of the main…
U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s executive order on September 28, 1945, proclaiming that the resources on the continental shelf contiguous…
Special circumstances are those circumstances which might modify the results produced by an unqualified application of the equidistance principles. Small…
The notion of equity is at the heart of the delimitation of the CS(continental shelf) and entered into the delimitation…
Delimitation of the territorial sea between States with opposite or adjacent coasts Where the coasts of two States are opposite…
On 3 February 2014, on the margins of the eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals,…
The main rights and obligations concerning migrants attempting to cross the sea clandestinely are framed by the following legal norms:…
Coastal states can claim five key maritime zones. Proceeding seawards from the coast they are internal waters, territorial seas, the…
where no EEZ claim has been made, several states instead claim an exclusive fishery zone. A significant proportion of these…
The rights coastal states have in certain maritime zones, notably internal waters, the territorial sea and contiguous zone, affords them…
The Right to Visit of a foreign-flagged vessel in law of the sea and customary international law, The Right to…
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The LOSC devotes Part VII to the high seas. Under Article 86, the high seas are defined as: all parts…
The key concept of archipelagic waters is that a group of islands in mid-ocean, i.e. ‘midocean archipelagos’, should be considered…
Internal waters are ‘those waters which lie landward of the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured’. Specifically, internal…
Article 11 of the LOSC provides a rule concerning harbour works: For the purpose of delimiting the territorial sea, the…
Concerning river mouths, Article 9 of the LOSC stipulates: If a river flows directly into the sea, the baseline shall…
Recently the number of bays bordered by more than one State has increased owing to the break-up of existing composite…
The TSC and the LOSC contain no definition of historic bays. According to the Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal in the…
In this regard, the Arbitral Tribunal, in the 1910 North Atlantic Coast Fisheries case, stated: the geographical character of a…
Straight baselines can be defined as: a system of straight lines joining specified or discrete points on the low-water line,…
The first paradigm, i.e. the law of the divided oceans, rests on the Westphalian conception of international law stressing the…
First, the primary function of international law involves the spatial distribution of jurisdiction of States, and the same applies to…
also based on the article 76 of UNCLOS III, Article76, Definition of the continental shelf The continental shelf of a…
The Development of the Law of the Sea by the International Court of Justice, baselines, development of international law, ICJ,…
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Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) OVERVIEW OF THE CASE On 29 September 2005, Costa Rica…
Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine) OVERVIEW OF THE CASE On 16 September 2004, Romania filed an…
Case concerning the detention of three Ukrainian naval vessels (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), Provisional Measures
On 14 November 2012, Argentina filed with the Tribunal a request for the prescription of provisional measures under article 290,…
On 3 July 2001, an Application under article 292 of the Convention was filed on behalf of Panama against Yemen…
On 21 March 2001, an Application under article 292 of the Convention was filed on behalf of Belize against France…
By an exchange of letters dated 18 and 19 December 2000, Chile and the European Community agreed to submit a…
On 27 November 2000, an Application under article 292 of the Convention was filed on behalf of Seychelles against France…
On 30 July 1999, a Request for the prescription of provisional measures, pending the constitution of an arbitral tribunal, was…