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The Law of the Sea Around Us

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Philip C. Jessup
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , January 1961 , pp. 104 - 109
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1961

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References

1 Dean, , “The Second Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea : The Fight for Freedom of the Seas,” 54 A.J.I.L. 751 (1960)Google Scholar.

2 In Mr. Dean ‘s article above cited, there are ample citations to various sources and documents. The present writer referred to some of the background in “The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea,” 59 Columbia Law Rev. 234 (1959).

3 One notes the frank statement by the representative of Lebanon, Mr. Fattal: “His Government was concerned not so much about the width of its country’s territorial sea as about the problem of the Gulf of Akaba. Lebanon, whose liberalism and traditional reasonableness were well known, wished to stress that, although the Conference had feigned to ignore it and had subjected it to a conspiracy of silence, that problem, together with the tragedy of Palestine, had never ceased to influence decisions one way or another.” Provisional Summary Record of the Thirteenth Plenary Meeting, April 26, 1960, p. 4.

4 363 U. S. 1, 121, 80 Sup. Ct. 961. Cf. 54 A.J.I.L. 895 (1960).

5 363 U. S. 1 at 74, 80 Sup. Ct. 961 at 1002.

6 See, for instance, footnotes 28-31 of Mr. Dean’s article.

7 Among the latest items prepared and furnished to the Conference were the “Synoptical table concerning the breadth and juridical status of the territorial sea and adjacent zones,” A/CONF.19/4, Feb. 8, 1960; “Supplement to Laws and Regulations on the Regime of the Territorial Sea,” A/CONF.19/5, Feb. 10, 1960, and addenda thereto; and Supplement to the Bibliographical Guide to the Law of the Sea, A/CONF.19/6, Feb. 1, 1960, and addendum thereto.

8 363 U. S. 1 at 34, 80 Sup. Ct. 961 at 981.

9 Cunard Steamship Co. v. Mellon, 262 U. S. 100 (1923), reprinted in 17 A.J.I.L. 563 (1923).

10 363 U. S. 1 at 89, 80 Sup. a. 961 at 1010.

11 Provisional Summary Record of the Sixth Plenary Meeting, April 20, 1960, p. 3.

12 London Times, Sept. 29 and 30, 1960.

13 Ibid., Oct. 11, 1960.