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Theory In Search Of Practice: The Right Of Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea, Kissi Agyebeng
Theory In Search Of Practice: The Right Of Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea, Kissi Agyebeng
Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers
The evolution of the law of the sea has been shaped largely by two notions, namely, freedom of navigation on the one hand, and restricted access on the other hand. The interaction between these two opposing notions has led to the acceptance of two compromise concepts, namely, the territorial sea and the right of innocent passage. These concepts have now been codified in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. This paper examines the right of innocent passage in the territorial sea under the Law of the Sea Convention regime as matched against contemporary state practice. …