Cases and materials on the law of the sea

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Figures -- Table of Abbreviations -- Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments -- Table of Cases -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A. Historical Overview and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- 1. Historical Overview to 1982 -- 2. The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea: An Overview -- Bernard H. Oxman, "The New Law of the Sea" -- Note -- 3. Recent Developments -- B. International Law and International Legal Process -- 1. An Introduction to International Law Sources and Process -- Statute of the International Court of Justice, Article 38 -- Notes -- North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (1969) -- Libya/Malta Continental Shelf Case (1985) -- Figure I.A -- Notes -- 2. Regimes and International Organizations -- Satya N. Nandan, "Existing Institutional Framework and Mechanisms" -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Freedom of the High Seas -- A. Introduction -- Law of the Sea Convention, Articles 87 and 89 -- Notes -- B. Freedom of Navigation -- Hugo Grotius, The Freedom of the Seas (1633) -- Law of the Sea Convention, Article 90 -- Notes -- C. Freedom of Overflight -- U.S. Protest to Ecuador -- Notes -- D. Freedom of Fishing -- E. Freedom to Lay Submarine Cables and Pipelines -- Law of the Sea Convention, Articles 112 and 113 -- Notes -- Alleged Damage to United States Submarine Cables by Soviet Vessels -- Note -- F. Other Freedoms -- G. Reasonable Regard to Interests of Other States -- Note -- Warning Areas -- Legality of Using the High Seas in Connection With Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Pacific Ocean -- Notes -- Nuclear Tests Case (Australia v. France) (1974) -- Notes -- H. Reservation of the High Seas for Peaceful Purposes -- Law of the Sea Convention, Articles 88 and 301 -- Notes -- Note on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea is a thoroughly up-to-date text that will be used both as a classroom course book and as a treatise and reference guide. The text contains engaging teaching materials that systematically introduce law of the sea topics, placing them in the context of important themes about the roles of international law and international legal process. Historical materials of continuing importance appear alongside new materials that address such topics as maritime terrorism and port security, the protection of underwater cultural heritage, marine sanctuaries, deep-sea vent resources, and the operation of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and other new international organizations. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint