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U.S.-France Agreement Regarding the Sunken Vessel La Belle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 688 - 689
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 For background, see The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture 1–20 (Francois Lagarde ed„ 2003).

2 The Texas Historical Commission’s Internet site on its excavations of La Belle is at <http://www.thc.state.tx.us/lasalle/lasbelle.html>

3 Agreement Regarding the Wreck of La Belle, U.S.-Fr., Mar. 31, 2003, Art. 1 (2) (on file at GWU).

4 Id., Art. 2(2).

5 Administrative Arrangement, Texas Historical Commission-Musee National de la Marine, Mar. 31,2003 (on file at GWU).

6 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release on U.S.-France “LaBelle” Agreement Signed (Apr. 1,2003), at <http://www.state.gov>.

7 See Sean D. Murphy, United States Practice in International Law, 1999–2001 (2002) (discussing the Sea Hunt case and a policy statement issued by President Clinton).

8 Agreement Concerning the Wreck of the CSS Alabama, Oct. 3,1989, 20 UN Law of the Sea Bull. 26 (1992); see J. Ashley Roach, France Concedes United States Has Title to CSS Alabama, 85 AJIL 381 (1991).

9 Nov. 2,2001,41ILM 40 (2002), at <http://www.unesco.org>. The convention will enter into force three months after the twentieth state has ratified it. For further background on the convention, see Guido Carducci, New Developments in the Law of the Sea: The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, 96 AJIL 419 (2002); see also Forrest, Craig J. S., Has the Application of Salvage Law to Underwater Cultural Heritage Become a Thing of the Past? 34 Mar. L. & Com. 309 (2003)Google Scholar; Rau, Markus, The UNESCO Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage and the International Law of the Sea, 6 Max Planck Y.B. U.N. L. 387 (2002)Google Scholar; Allain, Jean, Maritime Wrecks: Where the Lex Ferenda of Underwater Cultural Heritage Collides with the Lex Lata of the Law of the Sea Convention, 38 Va. J. Int’l L. 747 (1998)Google Scholar.

10 See Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 468 (2002)Google ScholarPubMed; Remarks of His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France, on Signing of Agreements Concerning “La Belle,” Wreck of Robert Cavelier de la Salle’s Expeditionary Ship (Mar. 31, 2003) (on file at GWU).