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The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea. Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, Alex G. Oude Elferink, Karen N. Scott, and Tim Stephens. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. lxx, 997. Index. $235.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea. Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, Alex G. Oude Elferink, Karen N. Scott, and Tim Stephens. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. lxx, 997. Index. $235.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

K. J. Keith
K. J. Keith*
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Victoria University of Wellington
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 390 - 398
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2 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, opened for signature Dec. 10, 1982, 1833 UNTS 397, 21 ILM 1261 (1982) [hereinafter UNCLOS].

3 Roy S. Lee & Moritaka Hayashi, New Directions in the Law of the Sea:Global Developments(2011–2016);Moritaka Hayashi & Roy S. Lee, New Directions in the Law of the Sea:Regional and National Developments (2011–2016).

4 UNCLOS, supra note 2, pmbl.

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7 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Highlight: Review of Maritime Transport 2014 (2014), available at http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1068.

8 Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malay./Sing.), 2008 ICJ Rep. 12 (May 23).

9 Unctad, Review of Maritime Transport (2014), at xi (2014).

10 Id. at 33–36.

11 United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships, Feb. 7, 1986, 26 ILM 1229 (1987) (not yet in force), available at https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XII-7&chapter=12&lang=en.

12 International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea, Nov. 1, 1974, 32 UST 47, 1184 UNTS 2, 14 ILM 959 (1975).

13 International Labour Organzation, Maritime Labour Convention, Feb. 23, 2006, 45 ILM 792 (2006), available at http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/maritime-labour-convention/lang--en/index.htm.

14 International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, July 7, 1978, S. Exec. Doc. EE, 96-1 (1980), 1361 UNTS 190 (entered into force Apr. 28, 1984), as amended July 7, 1995, and June 25, 2010 (revised text entered into force Jan. 1, 2012).

15 International Maritime Organization (IMO), 1993 Torremolinos Protocol Relating to the 1977 Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, Apr. 2, 1993, available at http://www.uscg.mil/imo/msc/docs/msc-92-report-add-2.pdf.

16 IMO, International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel, July 7, 1995, available at http://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/ListOfConventions/Pages/International-Convention-on-Standards-of-Training,-Certification-and-Watchkeeping-for-Fishing-Vessel-Personnel-.aspx.

17 E.g., Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith & Bruno Ciceri, Fishers and Plunderers:Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea (2015); Seafarers’ Rights(Deirdre Fitzpatrick & Michael Anderson eds., 2005).

18 New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the Use and Operation of Foreign Charter Vessels (Feb. 2012), available at https://www.mpi.govt.nz/document-vault/4008.

19 Convention on the High Seas, Art. 1, Apr. 29, 1958, 13 UST 2312, 450 UNTS 82 [hereinafter 1958 High Seas Convention].

20 Inst. of Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc’y, 708 F.3d 1099 (9th Cir.), amended by 725 F.3d 940, 943–44 (9th Cir. 2013).

21 U.S. Dep’t of State, Proliferation Security Initiative:Statement of Interdiction Principles (Sept. 4, 2003), available at http://www.state.gov/t/isn/c10390.htm; see also Donald R. Roth-well’s chapter, “International Straits” (chapter 6).

22 See Couper, Smith & Ciceri, supra note 17, at 11; see also Summary of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment, para. 192, UN Doc. A/70/112 ( July 22, 2015).

23 FAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture:Opportunities and Challenges 3 & tbl.1 (2014), available at http://www.fao.org/3/d1eaa9a1-5a71-4e42-86c0-f2111f07de16/i3720e.pdf.

24 FAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 11 (2012), available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e.pdf.

25 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, Aug. 4, 1995, 34 ILM 1542 (1995).

26 See Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile), 2014 ICJ Rep. 3 ( Jan. 27).

27 Shabtai Rosenne, Provisional Measures in International Law:The International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea 157–58(2005)(discussing in part Southern Bluefin Tuna (N.Z. v. Japan; Austl. v. Japan), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, 23 R.I.A.A.1(LOS Convention Arb. Trib. Aug. 4, 2000)); see also Reflections on Fisheries Management Disputes, in L’Evolution et l’etat actuel du droit international de la mer mélanges de droit de la mer offerts á Daniel Vignes 829, 848–51 (Rafael Casado Raigon & Guiseppe Cataldi eds., 2009).

28 Agreement on Fisheries, N.Z.-Japan, pmbl., Sept. 1, 1978, 1167 UNTS 441.

29 Treaty Relating to the Submarine Areas Of the Gulf of Paria, U.K.-Venez., Feb. 26, 1942, 205 LNTS 121.

30 Proclamation No. 2667, Policy of the United States with Respect to the Natural Resources of the Sub soil and Seabed of the Continental Shelf, 10 Fed. Reg. 12, 305 (Sept. 28, 1945).

31 Convention Between Great Britain and France for Defining and Regulating the Limits of the Exclusive Right of the Oyster and Other Fishery on the Coasts of Great Britain and of France, 27 Brit. and Foreign State Papers 983 (1839).

32 Grisbadarna Case (Nor./Swed.), 11 R.I.A.A. 147 (Perm. Ct. Arb. 1909).

33 Lauterpacht, H., Sovereignty over Submarine Areas, 1950 Brit. Y.B. Int’l L. 376, 394Google Scholar (“Moreover, assuming that we are confronted here with the creation of new international law by custom, what matters is not so much the number of states participating in its creation and the length of the period within which that change takes place, as the relative importance, in any particular sphere, of states inaugurating the change.”); see also Cheng, Bin, United Nations Resolutions on Outer Space: ‘Instant’ International Customary Law?, 5 Indian J. Int’l L. 23 (1965)Google Scholar.

34 Convention on the Continental Shelf, Apr. 29, 1958, 15 UST 471, 499 UNTS 311 [hereinafter 1958 Continental Shelf Convention].

35 North Sea Continental Shelf (F.R.G./Den.; F.R.G./Neth.), 1969 ICJ Rep. 3, para. 63 (Feb. 20).

36 Id., para. 101.

37 UNCLOS, supra note 2, Arts. 74, 83.

38 Continental Shelf (Tunis./Libya), Diss. Op. Oda, J., 1982 ICJ Rep. 18, 157, para. 1 (Feb. 24).

39 GA Res. 2750A (XXV) (Dec. 17, 1970).

40 Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, July 28, 1994, S. Treaty Doc. No. 103-39 (1994), 1836 UNTS 41.

41 The United States is not yet a party to UNCLOS.

42 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, May 12, 1954, 12 UST 2989, 327 UNTS 3.

43 1958 High Seas Convention, supra note 19, Art. 25.

44 1958 Continental Shelf Convention, supra note 34, Art. 5, para. 7.

45 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, June 16, 1972, UN Doc. A/CONF.48/14 & Corr. 1 (1973), 11 ILM 1416 (1972).

46 See, e.g., Patrick Barkham, Oil Spills: Legacy of the Torrey Canyon, Guardian, June 24, 2010, at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/24/torrey-canyon-oil-spill-deepwater-bp (describing the Torrey Canyon’s 1967 oil spill off the British coast).

47 See GA Res. 70/235 (Dec. 23, 2015) (reissued for technical reasons on Mar. 29, 2016).

48 GA Res. 69/292 (June 19, 2015).