Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-r6qrq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T02:23:48.715Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Global Oceans Politics: The Decision Process at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 1973-1982. By Edward L. Miles. The Hague, London, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1998. Pp. xiv, 513. Index. Fl 285; $177; £119.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

David Anderson
David Anderson*
Affiliation:
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews and Notes
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 92 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 796 - 798
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 See, e.g., Edward L. Miles, An Interpretation of the Caracas Proceedings, in Law or the Sea: Caracas and Beyond 77 (Francis T. Christy, Jr., et al. eds., 1975).

2 The contemporary reports written by Ambassador John R. Stevenson and Professor Bernard H. Oxman and published in this Journal still retain great value, especially for international lawyers. For references, see Bernard H. Oxman, The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea: The Tenth Session (1981), 76 AJIL 1 (1982), and the earlier references there cited. The University of Virginia Center for Oceans Law and Policy's United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary, contains considerable historical material about the conference, mostly written by leading participants. See United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary (Myron H. Nordquist ed., 1985).

3 July 28, 1994, 33 ILM 1309 (1994).

4 Accounts of the UN Secretary-General's consultations are to be found in Entry into Force of the Law of the Sea Convention (Myron H. Nordquist & John Norton Moore eds., 1995); D. H. Anderson, Resolution and Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A General Assessment, 55 Zeitschrift für auslandisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht [ZaöRV] 275 (1995); Karen Davisdon, Resolution and Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A General Assessment—Comment, 55 ZaöRV at 290; Kenneth Rattray, Resolution and Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A General Assement—Comment, 55 ZaöRV at 298; Rüdiger Wolfrum, The Dicision-Making Process According to Sec. 3 of the Annex to the Implementation Agreement: a Model to be Followed for Other International Economic Organisation? 55 ZaöRV at 310; D. H. Anderson, Efforts to Ensure Universal Participation in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 42 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 654 (1993); and D. H. Anderson, Further Efforts to Ensure Universal Participation in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 43 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 886 (1994).