Category: Evolution of the law of the sea

Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) 1. Second UN Conference on the Law of the Sea Since the four Geneva Conventions had not resolved some important issues within the law of the sea, the UN decided to convene a second conference, UNCLOS II, in 1960, soon after the conclusion of...

Four Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea of 1958 1. Four Conventions a)Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone This Convention recognised formally for the first time in international law the right of coastal states to claim a territorial sea off their coastlines. Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention read...

First UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) Aftermath of the Second World War The conduct of the belligerent powers during the Second World War demonstrated the need for a more orderly system of using the seas and oceans for various purposes. During the war, the rights of neutrals were largely disregarded...

Pre-UN development of the law of the sea Introduction We know that as early as the fourth millennium BC there were maritime trade routes connecting Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley. It is also known that commercial contacts between the Mediterranean basin and lands to the east existed as early as the Old Kingdom epoch in...