{"product_id":"a-constitution-for-the-oceans-the-long-hard-road-to-the-un-convention-on-the-law-of-the-sea-hardback-9781108840149","title":"A ‘Constitution for the Oceans'; The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Hardback) 9781108840149","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA ‘Constitution for the Oceans'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis analysis of the making of the UN law of the sea treaties traces the transformation of policy into law.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKirsten Sellars (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108840149, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed in 1982, was the culmination of half a century of legal endeavour. Earlier attempts to create a treaty regime governing the ocean — at League of Nations and United Nations conferences in 1930, 1958 and 1960 — had all failed to settle the breadth of the territorial sea, and in two cases failed to settle anything at all. During the negotiations, legal concepts were formulated and reformulated: straight baselines inspired archipelagic baselines; fishing conservation zones became exclusive economic zones; innocent passage through straits metamorphosed into transit passage through straits; and the seabed common heritage was replaced by the parallel system of seabed exploitation. Many of the issues that animated the delegates during the negotiations — ocean pollution, over-fishing, naval mobility, continental shelf claims and the impact of seabed mining — continue to exercise policymakers and lawyers to this day.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. End of the old order: the attempt to create a convention on territorial waters\u003cbr\u003e 2. Old freedoms, new rights: the Corfu Channel and Fisheries cases\u003cbr\u003e 3. North, South, East and West: new ideas and new actors at the 1958 conference\u003cbr\u003e 4. A conference collapses: no settlement on the territorial sea or fishing limits in 1960\u003cbr\u003e 5. Internationalising the seabed: common heritage and the UN seabed committee\u003cbr\u003e 6. Passage through straits: from innocent passage to transit passage at the 1973–82 conference\u003cbr\u003e 7. The archipelagic concept: division, unity and archipelagic statehood\u003cbr\u003e 8. New international orders: the exclusive economic zone, the continental margin, and marine scientific research\u003cbr\u003e 9. The bitter end: the seabed mining controversy and the signing of the convention\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Public international law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Public international law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Public%20international%20law%20%5BLBB%5D%22\"\u003eLBB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52417738408216,"sku":"9781108840149","price":88.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108840149i.jpg?v=1784505706","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-constitution-for-the-oceans-the-long-hard-road-to-the-un-convention-on-the-law-of-the-sea-hardback-9781108840149","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}