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The impact of extra legal factors on the historical development of international fisheries law

Gail Lugten-1996-01-01-UTAS Research Repository
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THE IMPACT OF EXTRA LEGAL FACTORS ON THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES LAW Over the past two thousand years the international community has established a classical school of fisheries law based largely on custom. Only the twentieth century has been concerned with attempting to reach a universally accepted code of regulation for fisheries. This code, the Law of the Sea Convention or LOSC of 10th December, 1982 combines both ancient customary law (such as the freedom of the seas, and its corollary of freedom of fisheries), as well as innovative modern law (sun as the exclusive economic zone). Thus, the LOSC must be viewed as more than the culmination of fourteen years of negotiations in the work of the United Nations Sea Bed Committee and the proceedings of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. More appropriately, LOSC is the culmination of several thousand years of development across all cultures. The central theme of this dissertation is that th

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THE IMPACT OF EXTRA LEGAL FACTORS ON THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES LAW Over the past two thousand years the international community has established a classical school of fisheries law based largely on custom. Only the twentieth century has been concerned with attempting to reach a universally accepted code of regulation for fisheries. This code, the Law of the Sea Convention or LOSC of 10th December, 1982 combines both ancient customary law (such as the freedom of the seas, and its corollary of freedom of fisheries), as well as innovative modern law (sun as the exclusive economic zone). Thus, the LOSC must be viewed as more than the culmination of fourteen years of negotiations in the work of the United Nations Sea Bed Committee and the proceedings of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. More appropriately, LOSC is the culmination of several thousand years of development across all cultures. The central theme of this dissertation is that th

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Fisheries lawInternational lawUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaLaw of the seaPolitical scienceLawGeographyCustomary international law

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