Contents

Preface

List of Maps and Illustrations

List of Contributors

Part I Certain Legal Questions Relating to Straight Baselines and ‘Non-Natural Basepoints’ in the Law of the Sea

Chapter One An Attempt to Unravel Charting and Publicity Requirements Imposed by NCLOS Article 16

Chapter Two Problems Relating to the Drawing of Baselines to Close Shared Maritime Waters

Chapter Three Problems Relating to Non-Natural and Man-Made Basepoints under UNCLOS

Part II Problems of Exercise of Jurisdiction in International Waters, including Human Rights Considerations and Conflicting Uses of the EEZ and Residual High Sea Freedoms

Chapter Four Jurisdictional Problems Relating to Non-Flag State Boarding of Suspect Ships in International Waters: A Practitioner’s Observations

Chapter Five Human Rights Issues and Non-Flag State Boarding of Suspect Ships in International Waters

Chapter Six Coastal State Jurisdiction and High Seas Freedoms in the EEZ in the Light of the Saiga Case

Part III Jurisdictional and Definitional Problems Relating to the Law of Piracy Jure Gentium in the 21st Century

Chapter Seven General Problematic Issues on Exercise of Jurisdiction over Modern Instances of Piracy

Chapter Eight Recent Legal Issues and Problems Relating to Acts of Piracy off Somalia

Chapter Nine Use of the Law of Piracy to Deal with Violent Inter-Vessel Incidents at Sea beyond the 12-Mile Limit: The Irish Experience

Chapter Ten So-Called ‘Eco-Piracy’ and Interventions by NGOs to Protest against Scientific Research Whaling on the High Seas: An Evaluation of the Japanese Position

Chapter Eleven Peaceful Protests against Whaling on the High Seas – A Human Rights-Based Approach

Part IV Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf: Recent Practice and Potential Problems Relating to Submissions to the CLCS in Instances Where Regional Maritime/Land Boundary Disputes Exist or Third State Representations Are Made to the CLCS; or where Differences Arise between the CLCS and a Submitting State

Chapter Twelve Causes, Consequences, and Solutions Relating to the Absence of Final and Binding Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf

Chapter Thirteen Problems Arising from Submissions by States to the CLCS in Relation to Disputed Areas: A Selective Survey of State Practice to Date

Chapter Fourteen Third-Party Reactions to Continental Shelf Submissions and Their Treatment by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Chapter Fifteen Legal Problems Relating to Differences Arising between Recommendations of the CLCS and the Submission of a Particular State

Appendices

Appendix I, Chapter 14. A Tabulation of Continental Shelf Submissions, Third-Party Reactions, and Their Disposition by the CLCS

Appendix II, Chapter 14. Statements of Preliminary Information

Index