The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted in 2001, addresses rights, jurisdiction and duties of States in the various maritime zones set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. This article argues that the manner in which the Convention on...

Maritime Piracy is a major international problem and it requires attention as it effects the peaceful existence of states beyond international boundaries. This paper underlines the conditions and criteria where the act can be called as maritime piracy that is, it can be done only in high seas,...

Exploration and collection of marine genetic resources ('MGRs') has led to the identification of more than 15,000 molecules. As a result of these discoveries, the number of international claims for marine gene patents deposited between 1991 and 2009 reached 677, and dozens of products based on...

The article reviews the legal and political process of implementation of an integrated ocean management of the marine Arctic, and examines whether there are available adequate area-based management tools that facilitate the possibility of including also shipping activities in this new approach...

More than a decade after the Arab oil embargo, the industrialized West still relies on an endless string of ocean tankers to satisfy its profligate need for energy. Every day, more than 100,000,000 tons of oil are transported by ocean vessels. In shipping lanes that each day become more...

During a visit to Norway by the Russian president in the spring of 2010, the president and the Norwegian prime minister surprisingly announced agreement on a delimitation line in the Barents Sea ending almost 40 years of negotiations. The agreement was signed in Murmansk on 15 September 2010....

This paper examines operation of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC). The CLCS makes recommendations, based on data submitted by coastal states about the outer limits of their continental shelf (beyond 200...

The notion of a transnational law has been under dispute for several decades. After Philip Jessup in his widely-known Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School had coined the phrase in 1956, it has been used in numerous contexts. One of the most influential narratives of...