Law of the Sea

Contents: Introduction. Baselines and the Territorial sea: Baseline delimitations and maritime boundaries, Lewis M. Alexander; The legal regime of innocent passage through the territorial sea, Shekhar Ghosh. Straits: Straits used for international navigation: a commentary on Part III of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, S.N. Nandan and D.H. Anderson. Islands: The legal status of islands in the new law of the sea, Janusz Symonides; The legal regime of archipelagos, H.P. Rajan. The Exclusive Economic Zone: The exclusive economic zone, Tommy T.B. Koh. The Continental Shelf: The juridical concept of the continental shelf, Makhdoom Ali Khan; The extent of the continental shelf; factors affecting accuracy of a continental margin boundary, Duncan J. McMillan. Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries: Geography in international maritime boundary-making, Shabtei Rosenne; Equitable maritime boundary delimitation - a legal perspective, Barbara Kwiatkowska. The High Seas: Freedom of the seas: past present and future, Ram P. Anand. Fisheries: Fisheries under the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea, Shigeru Oda; The 1995 Agreement on the conservation and managing of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks: significance for the Law of the Sea Convention, Morikata Hayashi. The International Seabed Area: The common heritage of mankind: utopia or reality?, Alexandre Kiss; Law of the Sea Forum: the 1994 agreement on the implementation of the seabed provisions of the Convention on the Law of the Sea - the 1994 agreement and the convention, Bernard H. Oxman. Land-Locked States: The land-locked countries and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Helmut Tuerk and Gerhard Hafner. The Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment: Marine pollution under the Law of the Sea Convention, Alan E. Boyle. Marine Scientific Research: Law of the sea and ocean resources: implications for marine scientific research, Patricia Birnie. Marine