International Law on Naval Mines: Rules, Effects and Lessons from Ukraine
Journal: Lex Portus
Year: 2025

The Article addresses the issue of international legal regulation of the use of naval mines and its implications for Ukraine. It considers the existing legal regime based on Hague Convention (VIII) relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines and customary international law. In order to unveil that regime, the article opens with the XIX century developments which led to the creation of the first international legal regulations restricting certain types of weapons as a result of Ha