| International law of the sea |
| Section A: Evolution of the law of the sea |
| · Pre-UN developments |
| · UNCLOS I |
| · The four Geneva Conventions on the law of the sea |
| · UNCLOS III |
| Section B: Baselines, the territorial sea and the contiguous zone |
| · The law on drawing baselines |
| · The rights of states in their territorial sea |
| · The right of innocent passage of other states |
| · Rights and duties in the contiguous zone |
| Section C: The continental shelf and the Exclusive Economic Zone |
| · Definition and drawing of the continental shelf |
| · Rights of States in the continental shelf |
| · The concept of the EEZ |
| · Rights and duties of States in the EEZ and its delimitation |
| Section D: The high seas, the sea-bed and dispute resolution |
| · The notion of the freedoms of the high seas |
| · The legal status of the sea-bed and its resources |
| · The Deep Sea Bed Mining Authority |
| · The Hamburg International Tribunal on the law of the sea |
Sequence:
Section A first. |
Textbooks:
Robin R. Churchill and A. Vaughan Lowe, The Law of the Sea 3rd ed (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1999), ISBN: 9780719043826 |
| United Nations, The Law of the Sea: Official Texts of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and of the Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI with Excerpts from the Final Act of the 3rd Conference (New York: United Nations, 1997), ISBN: 9789211335224 |
