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Jurisdiction Over the Sea Bed and Subsoil Beyond Territorial Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Herbert W. Briggs
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 1951 , pp. 338 - 342
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1951

References

1 U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/32, July 14, 1950, pp. vi, 112.

2 Ibid., p. 15.

3 Ibid., pp. 10 ff.

4 Ibid., pp. 59 ff.; Richard Young, “Recent Developments with Respect to the Continental Shelf,” this JOURNAL, Vol. 42 (1948), pp. 849-857, and ibid., Vol. 43 (1949), pp. 530-532, 790-792; see also supra, p. 225

5 P. R. Feith, “Rights to the Sea Bed and Its Subsoil,” International Law Association, Report of the 43rd Conference, Brussels, 1948, pp. 168, 170, 173, 183 ff.

6 See International Law Commission, 2nd Session, Summary Records, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/SR. 66-69, July, 1950; J. P. A. François, Report on the High Seas, U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/17, March 17, 1950.

7 U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/SR. 66, July 12, 1950, pp. 18 ff. Cf. Feith, loc. cit., pp. 184 ff.

8 U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/SR. 68, July 14, 1950, p. 9.

9 Ibid., p. 13.

10 Ibid., pp. 13 ff.

11 U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/32, pp. 102 ff.

12 U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/SR. 67, July 13, 1950, pp. 7-24. The first sentence was adopted by a vote of 10 to 1. The italicized sentence was adopted by a vote of 6 to 4, with 2 abstentions, as a substitute for Judge Hudson's original proposal which had read: “... therein contained, to the extent to which such exploitation is feasible.”

13 Ibid., pp. 24-26. Adopted by a vote of 9 to 0.

14 United States, Proclamation with Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf, Sept. 28, 1945, 10 Fed. Eeg. 12303.

15 Cf. U.N. Doc. A/CN.4/32, pp. 57 ff.; F. A. Vallat, “ The Continental Shelf,” British Year Book of International Law, Vol. 23 (1946), pp. 333-338.