Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process

Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process
Author: Massimo Lando
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110849739X

The first study of the three-stage approach to maritime delimitation, collating methods from judicial decisions, treaties and scholarship.

Handbook on the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries

Handbook on the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries
Author:
Publisher: United Nations, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of the Legal Affairs
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Baselines (Law of the sea)
ISBN: 9789211336306

The Handbook covers legal, technical and practical information deemed essential in negotiating maritime boundary delimitation between coastal states.It also contains information about the peaceful settlement of disputes where negotiations are unsuccessful and the states wish to avail themselves of the dispute settlement mechanism set out in the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea

International Maritime Boundaries

International Maritime Boundaries
Author: Jonathan I. Charney
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2023-07-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900463410X

This is the ultimate guide to international maritime boundaries. Its unique practical features include - systematic examination of all international maritime boundaries worldwide; - comprehensive coverage, including the text of every modern boundary agreement; - descriptions of judicially-established boundaries; - maps and detailed analyses of those boundaries; - expert papers examining the status of maritime boundary delimitations in each of the ten regions of the world; - papers from a global perspective analyzing key issues in maritime boundary theory and practice; and - a cumulative index for volumes I - III. These features make International Maritime Boundaries an unmatched comprehensive, accessible resource in the field.

Ocean Law Debates

Ocean Law Debates
Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004343148

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), signed in 1982 and going into force in 1994, was the product of intensive international debates from the 1950s onward. UNCLOS continues to be the subject of vital debates on new initiatives that seek to clarify or expand the scope of the ocean regime. In Ocean Law Debates: The 50-Year Legacy and Emerging Issues for the Years Ahead, distinguished authors analyze the content of these debates, providing both historical perspectives and keen analyses of present-day issues. Several chapters focus on the contributions to debates over half a century’s time by the Law of the Sea Institute, including the controversies involving maritime delimitation issues, creation of marine fisheries law, and responses to the manifold challenges posed by dramatic advances in science and technology. Complementing these historical perspectives, a section of five chapters offers critical discussion of today’s movement to create a regime to sustain biodiversity in the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction. Finally, the volume offers diverse perspectives on the implementation and judicial interpretation of UNCLOS, international whaling regulation, Arctic regional issues, seabed mining problems, the geopolitics of Marine Protected Area declarations, and the role of the IMO in responding to climate change.

A Practitioner's Guide to Maritime Boundary Delimitation

A Practitioner's Guide to Maritime Boundary Delimitation
Author: Stephen Fietta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199657475

This book provides a user-friendly and practical guide to the modern law of maritime boundary delimitation. The law of maritime boundaries has seen substantial evolution in recent decades. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the law in this field, and its development through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which set out the framework of the modern law in 1982. The Convention itself has since been substantially built upon and clarified by a series of judicial and arbitral decisions in boundary disputes between sovereign states, which themselves also built upon earlier case law. The book dissects each of the leading international judgments and awards since the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases in 1969, providing a full analysis of the issues and context in each case, explaining their fundamental importance to shaping the law. The book provides forty clear technical illustrations to carefully demonstrate the key issues at stake in this complex area of law. Technological developments in the exploitation of maritime natural resources (including oil and gas) have provided a significant impetus for recent boundary disputes, as they have made the resources found in remote areas of the ocean and seabed more accessible. However, these resources cannot effectively be exploited at the moment, as hundreds of maritime boundaries worldwide remain undelimited. The book therefore complements the legal considerations raised with substantial technical input. It also identifies key issues in maritime delimitation which have yet to be resolved, and sets out the possible future direction the law may take in resolving them. It will be an unique and valuable resource for lawyers involved in cases involving maritime delimitation, and scholars and students of the law of the sea.

The Theory and History of Ocean Boundary-making

The Theory and History of Ocean Boundary-making
Author: Douglas M. Johnston
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1988
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780773506244

In the classical and neo-classical periods of international law, the law of the sea was chiefly concerned with the need to facilitate the movement of ships. In the post-World War II period, however, coastal states began to make juridictional claims to extensive areas of the ocean, requiring decisions on how ocean boundaries are to be established and maintained.

Law of the Sea

Law of the Sea
Author: Harry N. Scheiber
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900448258X

The last quarter century has witnessed vast changes in the governance of ocean space and resources. The keystone instrument in the new legal order is the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention, an agreement comprehensive in its scope that has provided the framework for further innovations in marine policy and ocean law. Accelerated change in the 1990s included the revision and the going-into-force of the 1982 Convention; and the conclusion of new international agreements on biodiversity, on the management of fishery stocks in international waters, and on marine navigation and safety. There has also been renewed impetus for regionalization of marine management and conservation efforts. These and other leading issues facing the global community today are the subjects of essays in this volume. The authors, acknowledged authorities in the field, offer fresh and searching reappraisals of how the 'common heritage' concepts in ocean law have been challenged by the contemporary crises in marine uses and ocean environment and resources. How national governments and international organizations have responded to urgent questions of ocean management is a major focus of these studies, and the book also provides important historical perspective on the doctrinal legacy of earlier ocean law. Emerging legal norms and the principles of law, new procedural mandates, the problems of implementation, and recent institutional developments in the international arena all receive attention in this timely and provocative work.

Routledge Revivals: Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources (1987)

Routledge Revivals: Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources (1987)
Author: Gerald Henry Blake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 135113549X

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world’s oceans. It examines how the intensification of ocean use has raised questions of how rational planning, and the management of the oceans can avoid increasingly environmental damage and sea use conflict and examines the ocean as a tool for space, trade and communication. It also addresses the creation of integrated regional planning for ocean management.

The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region

The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region
Author: James Crawford
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1995
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780792327424

The volume surveys and discusses the range of current issues arising in the law of the sea from an Asian-Pacific perspective. There have been major developments in the law of the sea in the region: many current controversies (e.g. over archipelagic sealanes passage, drift-net fishing and environmental management) have their origins, or important exemplars, in the region. The contributors include international lawyers, political scientists and government officials with expertise in the region. Particular aspects of the book which are of interest are: (a) its discussion of the perspectives of particular countries in the region (East Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands); (b) its focus on issues of the marine environment and fisheries, including drift-net fishing; (c) discussion of specific developments which are of general interest (the Torres Strait Treaty and its implementation, maritime-confidence-building measures, dispute resolution); and (d) an overview of issues relating to high seas freedoms, including in particular transit through straits and archipelagoes. There is a concluding essay by the editors summarizing the various trends.