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Judicial And Arbitral Proceedings And The Outer Limits Of The Continental Shelf, John E. Noyes
Judicial And Arbitral Proceedings And The Outer Limits Of The Continental Shelf, John E. Noyes
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article explores when international third-party dispute settlement forums may hear cases concerning the outer limits of a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from baselines. The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea articulated determinate rules for establishing those limits and created an institution--the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf--to make recommendations concerning them. Limits set by coastal states "on the basis of" such recommendations "shall be final and binding." Yet the Law of the Sea Convention's third-party dispute settlement system may also apply to outer limits questions concerning the Arctic Ocean and other oceans.
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Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Books Received
Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention
By Jon M. Van Dyke.
Honolulu: The Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1985. Pp. x, 576. $29.50
Free Flow of Information; A New Paradigm. By Achal Mehra
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 225. $32.95
The Fund Agreement in the Courts, Volume III. By Joseph Gold Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1986. Pp. xvi, 841.$45.00
A Standard for Justice; A Critical Commentary on the Proposed Bill of Rights for New Zealand
By Jerome B. Elkind and Antony Shaw
New York: Oxford …
The Three Faces Of Zapata: Maritime Law, Federal Common Law, Federal Courts Law, Harold G. Maier
The Three Faces Of Zapata: Maritime Law, Federal Common Law, Federal Courts Law, Harold G. Maier
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co., the Supreme Court upheld the selection of a London forum in a towage contract between a German firm and an American firm and dismissed a suit brought in a Florida federal district court whose jurisdiction was otherwise valid. In doing so, the Court stated the rule: "[Forum-selection clauses] are prima facie valid and should be enforced unless enforcement is shown by the resisting party to be 'unreasonable' under the circumstances." The Court qualified the rule by indicating that to be enforceable such clauses must be actually bargained for and agreed to by the …