Oda, Shigeru Keywords: Natural resources | Law of the sea | Deep seabed | Fisheries | Continental shelf | Mots clefs: Ressources naturelles | Droit de la mer | Fond de la mer | Pêche | Plateau continental | ABSTRACT Shigeru Oda, Professor at Tohoku University in Sendai, devotes his course to International Law of the Resources of the Sea. In the first part, he studies the international law of the sea relating to living marine resources: powers of the State on the coastal zone, control of maritime resources on the high seas, and special…

R. Simmonds, Kenneth Keywords: European Economic Community | Law of the sea | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Mots clefs: C.E.E. | Droit de la mer | Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | ABSTRACT On 7 December 1984, the European Economic Community signed the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The objective of this course, given by Kenneth Simmonds, Professor at Queen Mary College, London, is to review the most significant issues of…

Symonides, Janusz Keywords: Geographically disadvantaged states | Law of the sea | Mots clefs: Pays géographiquement desavantagés | Droit de la mer | ABSTRACT Janusz Symonides, Director of the Polish Institute of International Relations, studies in this course the issue of geographically disadvantaged States under the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. In the first chapter, the author presents the concept of a geographically disadvantaged State and the requests made by these countries at the Third Conference on the…

Bernhardt, Rudolf Keywords: International customary law | Law of the sea | Law of treaties | International law | Mots clefs: Droit coutumier international | Droit de la mer | Droit des traités | Droit international | ABSTRACT Rudolf Bernhardt, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, notes that the combined play of custom and treaty, in the Law of the Sea, requires the consideration of general and theoretical elements and requires an attempt to link these general considerat…

Treves, Tullio Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Law of the sea | Codification | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | Droit de la mer | Codification | ABSTRACT Since the codification of international law is concretized in the conclusion of conventions, Tullio Treves, Professor at the State University of Milan, points out the following main problems: to what extent do these conventions correspond to what States as a whole consi…

Lucchini, Laurent Keywords: Small states | Islands | Law of the sea | Economic development | Mots clefs: Petits Etats | Iles | Droit de la mer | Développement économique | ABSTRACT International law is not very prolix on the Island State. Island States vary depending upon the number of islands that constitute the Island State, size (area), population, and geographical location. Thus, there is no physical unity between the Island States. In this course, Laurent Lucchini shows the opposition between the quasi-absence of legal un…