The International Law of the Sea

This acclaimed textbook gives a contemporary account of the law of the sea. It provides a critical overview of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea including analysis of the bilateral, regional and global agreements that form the bedrock of the subject.

The book explores the rules and institutions established by the Convention and its achievements in their historical and contemporary context. It sheds light on key areas of the law of the sea including:
- foundations and sources of the law
- nature and extent of the maritime zones
- delimitation of overlapping maritime boundaries
- navigational rights and freedoms
- military activities at sea
- marine resource and conservation issues such as fisheries, marine environmental protection and dispute settlement

The updated new edition places particular emphasis on the challenge of climate change, environmental concerns, such as pollution and rising sea levels, and the increasing strategic importance of islands. Put simply, this is a book that no serious student of the subject can be without.

1. The History and Sources of the International Law of the Sea
2. Coastal Waters
3. Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone
4. The Exclusive Economic Zone
5. The Continental Shelf
6. The Deep Seabed
7. High Seas
8. Archipelagic States
9. Landlocked and Geographically Disadvantaged States
10. Navigational Rights and Freedoms
11. International Straits and Archipelagic Navigation
12. Military Uses of the Oceans
13. Marine Resource Management
14. Marine Scientific Research
15. Marine Environmental Protection
16. Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries
17. Maritime Regulation and Enforcement
18. Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea
19. Oceans Governance