The lack of international conventional law governing the operational aspects of continental shelf activity may be characterized as unfinished business of the UN

During the four decades that have passed since the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was negotiated, there has been considerable advancement

Recent maritime disputes, environmental disasters, and piracy have raised the profile of the law of the sea. This Oxford Handbook brings together high-level ana

Provides clear, systematic and comprehensive coverage of fundamental and contemporary issues of the law of the sea.