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…

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 …

N. Mandelstam, André Keywords: Soviet Union | Mediterranean Sea | Dardanelles | Straits | Mots clefs: Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques | Méditerranée | Dardanelles | ABSTRACT Andre Mandelstam begins his course with a presentation of Russia’s policy in the Straits during the period from 1900 to 1907. He then studies the Austro-Russian crises of 1908-1909, the Russia’s diplomatic action at Constantinople in 1911, and the policy followed by Russia in Balkans during the same year. He then focuses on Russia’s poli…

E. Hill, Charles Keywords: Straits | International regime | Mots clefs: Détroits | Régime international | ABSTRACT Charles E. Hill explains in the introduction to his course that the claims of certain States, which were once excessive, to an exclusive jurisdiction on the straits, are now calmed down. He continues that this is true for the Straits of Magellan, Gibraltar, Messina, Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara and Bosphorus, as well as for the Great and the Little Belt and the Danish Oresund. The author studies the …

Grafton Wilson, George Keywords: Straits | Territorial sea | Mots clefs: Détroits | Mer territoriale | ABSTRACT George Grafton begins his course on the Waters Adjacent to the State Territory with a presentation of the territorial sea, particularly with regard to the debates on the sovereignty of the sea. The author then focuses on jurisdiction over ports, harbors, roads, gulfs and bays, and then presents a particular position of the straits. Finally, he studies the practice of States as it manifested itself in 1923. George Grafton commence son cours sur les eaux adjacentes au T…