1982 Law of the Sea Convention At 30
Subtitle: Successes, Challenges and New Agendas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789004245044
Subjects: Law of the sea; Marine pollution; United nations convention on the law of the sea (1982)
Description: "Offers twenty essays by renowned Law of the Sea scholars, published to mark the 30th Anniversary of the adoption of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The book highlights some of the strengths of the legal regime established by the Convention, and reviews some of the more significant lacunae in the Convention regime. Recognizing the significant changes that have taken place in scientific knowledge and political agendas in the thirty years since 1982, it reviews the challenges that these new agendas pose to the Convention regime"--Unedited summary from book cover.