Brüe, Erik Keywords: Denmark | Straits | International law | Great Belt | Mots clefs: Danemark | Détroits | Droit international | Grand-Belt | ABSTRACT Erik Brüel begins his study on the topography, the geographical function, and the political history of the straits. He presents the legal regime of the straits before the First World War, and then the position of the Danish Straits during the same war. The author then presents a few features of the development of fact and law in the post-war period, which may have an influence on the regime of straits. Erik Brüel commence son étude par une …

Caminos, Hugo Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Straits | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer (Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982) | Détroits | ABSTRACT In the introduction to his course on international straits, Hugo Caminos, Head of the Legal Department of the Organization of American States, notes that the term generally refers to straits found in the territorial waters of one or more States. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea pr…