Marotta Rangel, Vicente Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Continental shelf | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | Plateau continental | ABSTRACT Vicente Marotta Rangel, Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, proposes in this course a systematic and detailed analysis of the continental shelf in the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. After some general remarks on the Convention and on the concept of the continenta…

C. W. Pinto, M. Keywords: Common heritage of mankind | Deep seabed | Mineral resources of the deep seabed | Law of the sea | International law | Principles | Legal concept | United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (Third) | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This class aims to have a broad understanding of the Common Heritage of Mankind concept as it starts with an explanation of the international legal and institutional concept. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of t…

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…

Scovazzi, Tullio Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego-Bay, 10 December 1982) | Mots clefs: Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer [Montego-Bay, 10 décembre 1982] | ABSTRACT The whole historical development of international law of the sea is based on the interplay between the two ideas of freedom of marine waters and States’ sovereignty over them. In this course, the author describes and follows the pace of evolution in international law of the sea. He presents the slow evolution of the i…

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…

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…