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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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