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Authors: Hugo Caminos
ISBN-13: 9781840140903, ISBN-10: 1840140909
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Hugo Caminos

Book Synopsis

Collects 24 previously published essays on the public international law of the sea, mainly as reflected in the United Nations Convention and contemporary State practice. Separate sections address coastal regimes, high seas areas, international seabed areas, and general issues that transcend maritime zones. Topics include baseline delimitations and maritime boundaries, the exclusive economic zone, fisheries, marine pollution, jurisdiction and law enforcement over foreign vessels, military uses of the seas, the protection of underwater cultural heritage, and the polar regions. No subject index.

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	Acknowledgements
	Series Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Baselines and the Territorial Sea
1	Baseline Delimitations and Maritime Boundaries	3
2	The Legal Regime of Innocent Passage through the Territorial Sea	37
Pt. II	Straits
3	Straits Used for International Navigation: A Commentary on Part III of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982	67
Pt. III	Islands and Archipelagic States
4	The Legal Status of Islands in the New Law of the Sea	115
5	The Legal Regime of Archipelagos	135
Pt. IV	The Exclusive Economic Zone
6	The Exclusive Economic Zone	155
Pt. V	The Continental Shelf
7	The Juridical Concept of the Continental Shelf	191
8	The Extent of the Continental Shelf: Factors Affecting the Accuracy of a Continental Margin Boundary	213
Pt. VI	Delimitation and Maritime Boundaries
9	Geography in International Maritime Boundary-Making	225
10	Equitable Maritime Boundary Delimitation - A Legal Perspective	241
VII	The High Seas
11	Freedom of the Seas: Past, Present and Future	261
Pt. VIII	Fisheries
12	Fisheries Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	283
13	The 1995 Agreement on the Conservation and Management of Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks: Significance for the Law of the Sea Convention	301
Pt. IX	The International Seabed Area
14	The Common Heritage of Mankind: Utopia or Reality?	323
15	Law of the Sea Forum: The 1994 Agreement on Implementation of the Seabed Provisions of the Convention on the Law of the Sea - The 1994 Agreement and the Convention	343
X	Land-Locked States
16	The Land-Locked Countries and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	357
Pt. XI	The Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment
17	Marine Pollution Under the Law of the Sea Convention	373
Pt. XII	Marine Scientific Research
18	Law of the Sea and Ocean Resources: Implications for Marine Scientific Research	401
Pt. XIII	Maritime Jurisdiction and Enforcement
19	Problems of Jurisdiction and Law Enforcement Against Delinquent Vessels	427
Pt. XIV	Military Uses of the Sea
20	Military Uses of the Sea and the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention	453
21	Military Activities on the High Seas: What Are the Impacts of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea?	481
Pt. XV	Underwater Archeological and Historical Objects
22	The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage	497
Pt. XVI	The Polar Regions
23	Law of the Sea and the Polar Regions: Reconsidering the Traditional Norms	525
Pt. XVII	Settlement of Disputes
24	The Jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	545
	Name Index	569