A DECADE OF THE LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION: IS IT A SUCCESS?

From: The George Washington International Law Review | Date: May 30, 2007| Author: Freestone, David | Copyright information

A great deal has been written about the process of finalizing the massive United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December 1982.1 The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) was a protracted and historic process which evolved its own innovative decision-making procedure based on consensus and the now famous "package deal" approach to the finalization of a comprehensive treaty regime.2 The Convention itself contains 320 Artic...

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