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

Stress Testing the Law of the Sea

Stress Testing the Law of the Sea
Author: Stephen Minas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004352929

In Stress Testing the Law of the Sea: Dispute Resolution, Disasters & Emerging Challenges, edited by Stephen Minas and H. Jordan Diamond, leading practitioners and scholars of the law of the sea examine key developments that are placing pressure on the current legal framework. Following an expert preface setting the historical context for the discussion, Part I explores the changing norms of marine dispute resolution – long the foundation of the UNCLOS framework – in an era when the lines between private and public governance are continually shifting and following the landmark South China Sea arbitration. Part II explores emerging issues whose inherent levels of uncertainty challenge the structure of the framework, including climate change, disasters, and expanding energy exploration.

International Law Relating to Islands

International Law Relating to Islands
Author: Sean D. Murphy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004361545

This monograph considers the application of general rules of international law to islands, as well as special rules focused on islands, notably Article 121 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Such rules have been applied in several landmark cases in recent years, including the International Court of Justice’s judgments in Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia), and arbitral awards in the Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v. United Kingdom) and the South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China). Among other things, this monograph explores: the legal concepts of “islands”, “rocks” and “low-tide elevations”; methods of securing sovereignty over and the maritime zones generated by islands; islands and historic titles, bays and rights; problems of delimitation in the presence of islands; legal issues arising from changes in islands over time (notably from climate change); and contemporary techniques for resolving disputes over islands.

Baselines under the International Law of the Sea

Baselines under the International Law of the Sea
Author: Coalter G. Lathrop
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004398147

Baselines under the International Law of the Sea brings together two reports produced by the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea between 2008 – 2018. The Sofia Report (2012) is organized around the interpretation of Article 5 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) concerning the normal baseline. The Sydney Report (2018) is organized around a common methodology in assessing Articles 7, 8, 10, 13, 14 and 47 of the LOSC concerning straight baselines, closing lines, and straight archipelagic baselines.

The Regime of Islands Reframed

The Regime of Islands Reframed
Author: Clive Schofield
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004449477

In The Regime of Islands Reframed, Clive Schofield examines the definition of islands and other insular features under the international law of the sea with particular reference to the South China Sea case between China and the Philippines which has served to reframe understanding of this contentious area of international law.

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.

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.

Threatened Island Nations

Threatened Island Nations
Author: Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2013-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107025761

This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.