Several adjacent coastal States have designated straight territorial sea baselines in a manner that generates overlapping claims to internal waters. The LOSC co

what is the meaning of “Coast” in law of the sea, LOSC and customary international law, coastal State, low-water lines, margin of land, What are the principles

“Closing line” is a dividing line between the internal waters and the territorial seas of a coastal State enclosing a river mouth, a bay or a harbor; or a divid

A “basepoint” when employed in UNCLOS analysis means any point on the baseline. In the method of straight baselines, where one straight baseline meets another a

There are two definitions for “bank,” depending on its use in UNCLOS: (a)The word “banks” in UNCLOS Article 9, when referring to river banks, means those portio

An “artificial island” or “offshore installation,” or “installation (offshore),” as used in UNCLOS means a human-made edifice in the territorial sea, in the EEZ

Access to Ports in the international law of the sea(internal water), 1923 Geneva Convention and Statute on the International Regime of Maritime Ports, Access to

Normally the civil jurisdiction of the coastal State is not exercised in connection with disputes of a private nature arising between members of the crew. In re

Legal Status of Internal Waters in the law of the sea and LOSC, Article 5(2) of the TSC, Article 8 of the LOSC, Legal Status of Internal Waters, LOSC

Internal waters are ‘those waters which lie landward of the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured’. Specifically, internal waters in a legal sense