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Ocean Law Reform: A Multi-Level Comparative Law Analysis Of Nigerian Maritime Zone Legislation, Aldo Chircop, David Dzidzornu, Chidi Oguamanam
Ocean Law Reform: A Multi-Level Comparative Law Analysis Of Nigerian Maritime Zone Legislation, Aldo Chircop, David Dzidzornu, Chidi Oguamanam
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Recently, Nigeria introduced a Bill in the House and Senate that aims at modernizing its maritime zone legislation to enable it to maximize benefits it has received from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982. Although Nigeria has been a party to the Convention for many years, the legislative initiative was triggered only recently by a mixture of events, including a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and the delimitation of maritime boundaries and adoption of joint development zones with neighboring States, including the implementation of a judgment of the International …