Law of the Sea

 
 

Internet Resources:


International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions. 
This database contains decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions since 1997.
Available at: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/ITLOS/

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Website of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; contains documentation of the decisions concerning the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Available at: http://www.itlos.org/start2_en.html

Research guide to International Law on the Internet : Law of the Sea.
Available at: http://www2.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/SEALAW.htm

United Nations. 
Available at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
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Books:


Alternatives in Deepsea Mining : Proceedings, Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, workshop, December 11-14, 1978, Ka‘u, Hawaii.
Scott Allen. [Honolulu, Hawaii] : The Institute, c1979. 110p. 
JX4426 .A47 1979

Atlas for Marine Policy in East Asian Seas.
Joseph Morgan. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. 152p.
Covers East China Sea, Yellow Sea, sea of Japan, portions of the Sea of Okhotsk and the western Pacific Ocean. Nine basis sections make up the atlas: the natural environment setting, scientific research, valuable and vulnerable resources, maritime defense, shipping, transnational navigational issues and possible cooperative responses, oil and gas, fisheries and aquaculture,  pollution, national marine environmental policies and transnational issues, and integrations.
REF G2862 .N6 A75 1992

Atlas for Marine Policy in Southeast Asian Seas.
Joseph Morgan. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983. 144p.
Nine basis sections make up the atlas: the natural environment setting, scientific research, valuable and vulnerable resources, maritime jurisdictions and boundaries, fisheries, shipping, oil and gas pollution sources, and integrations.
G2362 .S6 A7 1983

Beyond the Law of the Sea : New Directions for U.S. Oceans Policy.
George
Galdorisi. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997. 229p.
The 1982 U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea took over a decade to produce and was the final result of the largest single international negotiating process undertaken before or since that time. As the world's leading maritime nation, the U.S. has vital, immediate, national interests in the Convention and in the continuing refinement of maritime law based upon the tenets of that comprehensive document. The present work describes in detail the concurrent development of international law and the law of the sea, the complex negotiating process that resulted in the completed Convention, the role of the U.S. both during the Law of the Sea Convention and during the decade of negotiation that finally made the Convention acceptable, and policy directions and issues for the U.S. in the post-Convention environment. This is an important new text in international law, international relations, and maritime affairs.

KZA1146 .U6 G35 1997

Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters.
David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber. 
Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. 497p.
The quest to adjust the legal order of the oceans to changing realities has constituted one of the major developments in international law in the last half century. This book provides perspectives on the past record of legal change together with analyses of a wide range of institutional and legal innovation that are needed to meet current challenges.

KZA1141 .B75 2004

China and the Law of the Sea Convention : Follow the Sea.
Elizabeth Van Wie Davis. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. 118p.
This study introduces principles and practices of ocean law by discussing particular issues of major concern for less developed states. It maps the development of these issues and how they have influenced the ocean policies of the states on Pacific rim, with close attention to China. 

JX4422 .C6 D38 1995

The Developing Order of the Oceans : Proceedings.
Law of the Sea Institute. Conference (18th : 1984 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, c1985. 749p.  Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference in 1984.
JX4408 .L373 1984

Distant Water Fisheries and the 200 Mile Economic Zone.
Vladimir Kaczynski.
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, 1984, c1983. 50p.
The expansion of distant-water fishing operations is often viewed as a principal, one-time factor that has transformed the structure of property rights over the ocean's living resources. Though ocean-going fisheries have altered the patterns of utilization of marine living resources, they themselves are being forced to change their operations, goals and perspectives for future development. This paper discusses developments - economic, technological and political - that reveal new trends in long-range fisheries.

SH328 .K33 1984

Fisheries Issues in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.
Choon-ho Park.
[Kingston] Law of the Sea Institute, University of Rhode Island, 1973. 32p.
This is only a small area of the sea semi-enclosed by China, Japan and Korea. The shallow and fertile fishing grounds are favorable for coastal and offshore fisheries. This advantage has caused disputes over high seas fishing rights between the coastal states. Their political relations have never been close enough to engender a friendly atmosphere so that the fisheries could be jointly regulated by all participants. Ironically, the cautious attitude of the states to avoid further disputes , has contributed to the productivity of the sea. This has resulted in the inequity that China reaps a lions share to the silent dissatisfaction of Korea and Japan.

KQ4 .P37

Globalization and Maritime Power.
Sam J. Tangredi. Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2002. 613p.
Book focuses on the direct impact of globalization on naval forces and the maritime aspects of commerce and international relations. It seeks to translate what we have learned about the phenomenon of globalization into the language of strategy and defense policy. This book uses a general knowledge of globalization to deduce its impact on the maritime world, and applies inductive reasoning to the maritime impacts of defense planning. Its intent is to provide national security leaders with analyses applicable to the future security environment.
VA50 .G58 2002

Governance Amid Bigger, Better Markets.
John D. Donahue. Cambridge, Mass. : Visions of Goverance in the 21st Century ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001. 354p.
Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players are re-opening old questions about the role of the public sector and redefining what it means to govern well. This book explores the ways in which evolving markets alter the pursuit of traditional public goals.

HB501 .G6275 2001  

Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention Through International Institutions [microform] : Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Law of the Sea Institute.
Law of the Sea Institute. Conference (23rd : 1989 : Noordwijk, Netherlands)
. Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, c1990. 772p. 

JX4408 .L373 1989
 

Indonesia and the Law of the Sea.
Hasjim Djalal.
Jakarta : Centre for Strategic and International Studies, 1995. 449p.
This volume is a compilation of papers written by Dr. Djalal from the 1970s to 1995. Chapter 1 covers papers discussing the law of the sea convention which were written from 1976 to 1995. Chapter 2 includes papers written from 1971 to 1995 on the archipelagic concept and other issues such as the South China Sea and regional cooperation.

JX4422 .I5 D58 1995

International Energy Policy, the Arctic and the Law of the Sea. 
Edited by Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore & Alexander S. Skaridov. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2005. 339p.

The economic health of the global economy is directly tied to international energy policies, and none are more important than those of Russia, which is now the world's largest petroleum export nation. At the same time, oil and gas are finite resources and new sources of supply must be found. It is certain that the Arctic will be one of the areas of greatest interest. Wherever the energy resource originates, the law of the sea regime will be critical in the movement from source to market. The perspectives of Russia, China and the United States are discussed in depth by some of the world's foremost authorities. The special significance of the Caspian Sea routes for export and the consequences of the opening of a Northwest Passage due to global warming are among the issues covered in this volume.
K3918 .A6 U55 2005

International Maritime Boundaries. Volume V.
Edited by David Colson and Robert W. Smith.
Boston/Leiden: Martinus Nijoff Publishers, 2005.  
Ultimate guide to international maritime boundaries. Exams all international maritime boundaries; status of maritime boundary deliminations in the ten regins of the world; analyzes key issues in boundary theory and practice.

REF KZA1560 .I57 1993

Jane's Exclusive Economic Zones.
Jane's Information Group. Coulson, Surrey ; Alexandria, Va. : Jane's Information Group, 1999-.
KZA1560 .A35 J36 1999
                                                                                                                     

The Law of the Sea.
R. R. (Robin Rolf) Churchill. 
Yonkers, NY : Juris Publ. ; Manchester : Manchester University Press 1999. 494p.
This book is concerned with the public international law of the sea - that is to say, with the rules and principles that bind States in their international relations concerning maritime matters.
The author takes each of the major maritime zones recognized in contemporary international law, and explains the rules presently applicable to that zone against the background of the main stages of the historical development of those rules. Increasingly, however, the law of the sea is being developed along functional, rather than zonal, lines. For example, many of the more recent international agreements have been concerned not with particular zones but with particular uses of the seas, such as pollution, fishing and navigation.  In order to bring together the many rules of international law relating to the various uses of the seas, separate surveys of each of the main activities carried out in the seas appear in the later chapters of the book.
KZA1145 .C48 1999

Law of the Sea, Neglected Issues : Proceedings.
Law of the Sea Institute.
[Honolulu]: Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, c1979. 545p.
JX4408 .L37 1979

The Law of the Sea : New Worlds, New Discoveries : Proceedings, the Law of the Sea Institute, Twenty-sixth Annual Conference, Genoa, Italy, June 22-25, 1992
Law of the Sea Institute. Conference (26th : 1992 : Genoa, Italy).
Honolulu, HI : Law of the Sea Institute, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, c1993. 630p.
JX4408 .L373 1992

The Law of the Sea : Problems From the East Asian Perspective : Proceedings of Two Workshops of the Law of the Sea Institute held in Seoul, Korea.
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, [1987]. 601p.
Law of the sea : major problems from the East Asian perspective, held on June 30-July 3, 1981, with the Institute of Social Sciences, Seoul National University and the Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute; East Asia and the law of the sea--UNCLOS III review held on July 3-6, 1984, with the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University and the Environment and Policy Institute, East-West Center.
 
JX4422 .A78 L39 1987

The Law of the Sea: Selected Writings.
Budislav Vukas. 
Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. 359p.
These collected essays reflect the development of the author
's views as well as the evolution of the law of the sea itself since the beginning of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. After an introductory chapter, the author describes and analyzes topics such as the sources of the law of the sea, the relation of the law of the sea to other fields of international law, maritime delimitation, natural resources and navigation, as well as military uses of the sea, the protection of marine environment, enclosed and semi-enclosed seas and the settlement of disputes.
KZA1145 .V85 2004

Law of the Sea : State Practice in Zones of Special Jurisdiction : Proceedings, Law of the Sea Institute Thirteenth Annual Conference.
Law of the Sea Institute. Conference (13th : 1979 : Mexico City, Mexico).
Honolulu, HI : Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, c1982. 550p. Co-sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Studies of the Third World, Mexico City.
JX4408 .L373 1979

The Law of the Sea : United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Index and Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (3rd : 1973-1982 : New York, N.Y., etc.).
New York : St. Martin's Press, [1984], c1983.
Contains the official text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 10 December 1982.

JX4421 .L38 1984

Managing and protecting the offshore estate.
Jack McCaffrie. Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian Defence Studies Centre, 1995. 135p.

In the latter half of 1994 Australia declared a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone. This declaration brought with it responsibility for the management and protection of this greatly expanded offshore estate. Discussed in this book are some of the implications of this increased responsibility; the legal issues, the threat from illegal activity, the limitations and costs of different surveillance and enforcement systems, the coordination of command arrangements. This monograph contains the proceedings of a seminar held in May 1994 which examined the issues of sovereignty and responsibility.
JX4144.5 .M36 1995

Marine Policy in Southeast Asia.
George  Kent.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985. 425p.
HC92 .M36 1985

Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea: Strategic and Diplomatic Status Quo.
Ralf Emmers. IDSS Working Paper, 2005. 16p. September 2005.
UA832.8 .I21 2005  No.87

Moscow Symposium on the Law of the Sea : Proceedings of a Workshop Co-sponsored by the Law of the Sea Institute, the Soviet Maritime Law Association, The Soviet Peace Fund, November 28-December 2, 1988, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Moscow Symposium on the Law of the Sea (1988 : Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.) Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, c1991. 394p.
 
JX4408 .M67 1988

New Developments in Marine Science and Technology : Economic, Legal, and Political Aspects of Change.
Law of the Sea Institute. Conference (22nd : 1988 : Narragansett, R.I.).
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, c1989. 530p. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Law of the Sea Institute, co-sponsored by the Center for Ocean Management Studies, the University of Rhode Island, June 12-16, 1988, Narrangansett, Rhode Island.
K3484.6 1988

Non-flag State Enforcement in High Seas Fisheries.
Rosemary Gail Rayfuse.
Boston/Leiden: Martinus Nijoff Publishers, 2004. 439p.
First comprehensive examination of state practice relating to enforcement by non-flag states of the high seas conservation and management measures.
K3895 .R39 2004

Oceans Management in the 21st Century: Institutional Frameworks and Responses.
Alex G. Oude Elferink and Donald R. Rothwell. 
Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. 391p.
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea created a new framework for the conduct of maritime affairs. The Convention remains a shining example of international cooperation, diplomacy and the role of international law in the regulation of international affairs and oceans management.

KZA1145 .O243 2004

The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime.
William Langewiesche. New York :
North Point Press, c2004. 239p.
The open ocean
spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will.  But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of two perfectly adapted pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism. 

HE571 .L36 2004

Perspectives on U.S. Policy Toward the Law of the Sea : Prelude to the Final Session of the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea.
Charles L. O.  Buderi.
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, c1985. 98p.
Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Boalt Hall International Law Society, co-sponsored by the Earl Warren Legal Institute and the American Society of International Law, and held at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley on February 20, 1982.

JX4422 .U5 P47 1985

Regionalization of the Law of the Sea : Proceedings.
Law of the Sea Institute.
Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Pub. Co., c1978. 346p.
JX4408 .L37 1978

Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea.
Mark J. Valencia. Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press, c1999. 278p.
The South China Sea disputes continue to confuse and confound policymakers. The authors survey the principles that appear to guide the nations of the South China Sea region in their regional relations and identify the appropriate objectives of a regional resource authority. All of the national claims to South China Sea area islands and ocean space have weaknesses. The dangerous and unstable state created by the unilateral actions of claimants and by the continuing opportunities for outside powers' involvement demand an appropriate measure. The authors propose a regional multinational solution for part of the area because other alternatives appear impractical. Division or allocation of the features and ocean space among the competing claimants seems unfeasible because of sharp disagreements over the boundaries in dispute and over the appropriate equitable division. Serial bilateral negotiations might resolve some conflicting claims but would leave or create others; they also present problems of cost and efficiency.   
KZA1146.C6.V35 1999

The Tanker War, 1980-88 : Law and Policy.
George K. Walker. Newport, R.I. : Naval War College, 2000.
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the legal issues surrounding the "Tanker War" between Iran and Iraq, with a focus on law of the sea, the UN Charter, environmental issues and the law of armed conflict. 

JX1295 .U4 VOL. 74 2000

The Transfer of Marine Technology to Developing Nations in International Law.
Boleslaw Adam Boczek.
Honolulu : Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, c1982. 79p.
It is the technological advances in the area of deep sea mining that provided the stimulus toward the convening of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), the international forum in which the less developed countries have voiced their demands concerning the transfer of marine technology as one means of speeding their development.

K4484.2 .B62 1982

UNCLOS and its limitations as the foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime.
Sam Bateman. Singapore : Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, the Republic of Singapore, 2006. 27 p.
This paper discusses key limitations of UNCLOS; particularly the use of territorial sea baselines, navigational regimes, exclusive economic zones (EZZs), and some other issues covered by the Convention, such as piracy, hot pursuit and the responsibilities of flag States.
UA832.8 .I21 2006 NO.111

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982).
New York : United Nations, 1997. 294p.
The law of the sea : official texts of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, and of the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, with index and excerpts from the final act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

KZA1120 .A2 1997

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea : What it Means to Australia and Australia's Marine Industries.
Maritime Policy Issues Seminar (1994 : University of Wollogong).
Wollogong, Australia : Centre of Maritime Policy, University of Wollogong, 1996. 245p.
KU1060 .A85 1994  

The United States and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention : the Cases Pro & Con.
George Galdorisi and Doug Bandow. Honolulu, HI : Law of the Sea Institute, c1994. 87p.
Two authors have added their views to the debate on whether the US should sign the Law of the Sea. This commentary critiques their two articles on the LOS debate.

JX4422 .U5 G35 1994

Yearbook 2003: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003. 202 p.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention. The Tribunal is open to States Parties to the Convention. It is also open to entities other than States Parties (States and international organizations non-parties to the Convention and natural or juridical persons) in cases provided for in the Convention or other agreements conferring jurisdiction on the Tribunal. The Yearbook offers easy access to information about the jurisdiction, procedure and organization of the Tribunal and also about its composition and activities in 2003.
KZA5200 .I588 2003
 

 

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Periodicals:

 


U.S. Department of State. Electronic Journals.  
The electronic resources listed on this page often feature articles on foreign policy issues, including conflict resolution and peacekeeping. See:
"Shared Oceans, Shared Future," (April 2004).
Available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journals.htm

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Modern Maritime Piracy.
Focuses on the current issues involving modern day piracy.

Resources.
Focuses on the current issues involving natural resources.

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Updated:  04 December 2007