Selected Recent Institutional and Rule-Making Developments in the Law of the Sea (2015-2016)
Author(s) -
Humphrey Sipalla
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
strathmore law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-7162
pISSN - 2411-5975
DOI - 10.52907/slj.v2i1.22
Subject(s) - united nations convention on the law of the sea , treaty , law of the sea , political science , law , convention , subsoil , freedom of navigation , international law , environmental science , municipal law , soil science , soil water
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC or the Convention) is quite simply, the greatest treaty-making achievement of the United Nations (UN) era. This appraisal of the recent developments of 2015-16 in this legal regime that governs the oceans – waters, floor and subsoil thereof – which cover ‘over 70 percent of the surface of our planet’, focuses on its oft-ignored spect, that is, its institutional framework.
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