CHAPTER Ⅰ.NATIONALITY OF VESSELS

A.Introduction

B.The Right of States to Confer Nationality Upon a Ship

1.General Principle

2.Limitations

3.Genuine Link

C.Documentation and Registration

D.Ships or Vessels

CHAPTER Ⅱ.DUTIES AND JURISDICTION OF FLAG STATE AND RESTRICTIONS ON JURISDICTION OF STATES OVER FOREIGN VESSELS

A.Duties of Flag State

B.Jurisdiction of Flag State and Restrictions on Jurisdiction of States Over Foreign Vessels

1.High Seas

2.United States Practice Concerning Search and Seizure on the High Seas

3.Contiguous Zone

4.Exclusive Economic Zone

5.Territorial Waters

6.Internal Waters and Ports

7.Jurisdiction Over Ships Owned by Nationals

8.Government Vessels

9.Special United States Statutes

CHAPTER Ⅲ.THE BASELINE FOR DETERMINING ZONES OF NATIONAL JURISDICTION

A.Introduction

B.Normal Baseline:The Low-Water Line

C.Rivers

D.Bays

E.Islands

F.Low-Tide Elevations

G.Harbors and Roadsteads

H.Straight Baselines

I.Archipelagic States

J.Historic Inland Waters,Including Historic Bays

CHAPTER Ⅳ.BOUNDARIES OF MARITIME JURISDICTION BETWEEN ADJACENT AND OPPOSITE STATES

A.Territorial Sea

B.Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone:

1.General Rule-Delimitation by Agreement

2.Rules to Be Applied -in the Absence of Agreement

3.United States Practice

C.Boundary Dispute Resolution

CHAPTER Ⅴ.INTERNAL WATERS AND PORTS

A.Internal Waters and Ports

B.Freedom of Access to Ports

C.Jurisdiction Over Foreign Vessels While in Port

D.Jurisdiction of Flag State Over Vessels in Foreign Ports or Internal Waters

E.Enlarged Port State Jurisdiction

F.Deepwater Ports

CHAPTER Ⅵ.THE TERRITORIAL SEA

A.Coastal State Sovereignty Over the Territorial Sea

B.Breadth of the Territorial Sea

C.The Right of Innocent Passage

D.Transit Passage

E.Archipelagic Sea Lanes Passage

F.United States Territorial Sea and the Rights of the States

G.Contiguous Zone

CHAPTER Ⅶ.EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE

A.From Fishery Zones to an Exclusive Economic Zone

B.Management and Conservation of the Living Resources Within the EEZ

C.Rights of Geographically Disadvantaged and Land-Locked States in the EEZ

D.Species Subject to Special Rules

E.Enforcement of Conservation and Management Measures

F.United States Legislation Relating to Conservation and Exploitation of the Living Resources in the EEZ

G.Other Uses of the Exclusive Economic Zone

H.Marine Scientific Research

I.Artificial Islands and Installations

CHAPTER Ⅷ.CONTINENTAL SHELF

A.Early Developments

B.Definition and Delimitation

C.Rights and Duties of the Coastal State Over the Continental Shelf

D.Sedentary Fisheries

E.Marine Scientific Research on the Continental Shelf

F.United States Practice and Legislation Relating to the Continental Shelf

CHAPTER Ⅸ.EXPLOITATION OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE DEEP SEABED

A.Current Status of the Legal Regime of the Deep Seabed

B.Seabed Mining Under the LOS Convention

C.United States Legislation

CHAPTER Ⅹ.PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

A.General Principles

B.Vessel Source Pollution

1.Flag State Jurisdiction

2.Coastal State Jurisdiction in Ports and in the Territorial Sea

3.Coastal State Jurisdiction in the EEZ

C.Pollution From Land-Based Sources

D.Ocean Dumping

E.Pollution From Seabed Activities Subject to National Jurisdiction

F.Pollution From Deep Seabed Mining

G.Pollution From or Through the Atmosphere

H.Protection of Fragile Ecosystems

I.Responsibility and Liability

J.Enforcement

1.Flag State Enforcement

2.Coastal State Enforcement

3.Port State Enforcement

4.Overlapping Jurisdiction

5.Liability for Wrongful Enforcement

K.Notification and Cooperative Action

L.Government Noncommercial Ships

CHAPTER Ⅺ.HIGH SEAS FREEDOM

A.General Principles

B.Reservation of the High Seas for Peaceful Purposes

C.Freedom of Navigation

D.Freedom of Overflight

E.Freedom of Fishing

F.Freedom to Lay Submarine Cables and Pipelines

G.Freedom to Construct Artificial Islands

H.Freedom of Scientific Research

CHAPTER Ⅻ.SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

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