The regime of islands in international law / / Hiran W. Jayewardene.

• Superior document: Publications on Ocean Development
• VerfasserIn: Jayewardene, Hiran W.
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Martinus Nijhoff,, [1990]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Series: Publications on Ocean Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- PART ONE: THE 'REGIME OF ISLANDS' -- Chapter 1: INSULAR FEATURES: DEFINITION ANDENTITLEMENT -- 1. Legal Definition of Islands and Other Natural Insular Features -- (1) Islands -- (2) Low-Tide Elevations -- (3) Artificial Islands -- 2. The Entitlement of Islands to Areas of Maritime Jurisdiction -- (1) The Territorial Waters of Islands -- (2) The Contiguous Zones of Islands -- (3) The Continental Shelf of Islands -- (4) The Exclusive Economic Zones of Islands -- (5) Islands under Colonial Dependence, or Foreign Domination or Control -- PART TWO: THE EFFECT OF ISLANDS ON THE OUTER LIMITS OF NATIONAL JURISDICTION -- Chapter 2: ISLANDS AND BAYS -- 1. Introduction -- (1) General -- (2) Geographical Situations -- 2. Bays and Problems Occasioned by the Presence of Islands -- (1) Bays and Baselines -- (2) The Drawing of Baselines across Bays in the Presence of Islands -- (i) Problematical Island Situations -- (a) Screening Islands -- (b) Islands Forming the Headlands of a Bay -- (ii) Construction of the Closing Line -- (iii) Choice of Baselines -- Chapter 3: ISLANDS AND STRAIGHT BASELINES -- 1. General -- 2. Development of the Regime of Straight Baselines -- (1) Historical: Deliberations in Learned International Bodies and at the Hague Conference -- (2) The Anglo-Norwegian Fisheries Case of 1951 -- (3) The International Law Commission's Deliberations -- (4) The 1958 Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea -- (5) The Third Conference on the Law of the Sea -- 3. Criteria for the Application of Straight Baselines -- (1) Geographical Conditions -- (i) Coastal Configurations -- (ii) Fringing Islands -- (2) Conformity with the General Direction of the Coast -- (3) The Link with the Land Domain: The Relevance of Economic and Historical Factors.

(4) Length of Baselines -- (5) Non-Exclusion of the Territorial Sea- High Seas/EEZ Link of Another State -- 4. The Drawing of Straight Baselines in the Presence of Islands and Related Features -- (1) Coastal Islands -- (i) Fringing Islands -- (ii) Island Clusters -- (iii) Islands Constituting a Promontory -- (iv) Individual Islands -- (2) Low-Tide Elevations -- (3) Insular Features Forming Part of a Delta -- 4) Island States, Outlying Islands, Archipelagic States not Qualifying for Archipelagic Straight Baselines and Other Archipelagos -- (i) Island States -- (ii) Dependent Islands -- (iii) Archipelagic States not Qualifying for Archipelagic Straight Baselines -- (iv) Other Archipelagos -- (5) Archipelagic States Qualifying for Archipelagic Straight Baselines -- (6) Island Formations Extending across National Frontiers -- Chapter 4: REEFS AND ATOLLS -- 1. On Reefs and Atolls in General -- 2. Baselines in Relation to Reefs and Atolls -- (1) General -- (2) Law of the Sea Conferences and the Inclusion of Reefs and Atolls -- (i) Islands Situated on Atolls -- (ii) Islands Having Fringing Reefs -- Chapter 5: MID-OCEAN ARCHIPELAGOS -- 1. Introduction -- (1) General -- (2) The Feature -- (3) The Problem -- (4) The Rationale Underlying Archipelagic Claims -- (i) Political and Security Interests, Communications and the Exercise of the Public Law Jurisdiction of the Archipelagic Entity -- (ii) Historical Factors -- (iii) The Unity of the Archipelago as a Natural Feature -- (iv) Economic Considerations -- (v) Preservation of the Environment -- (vi) Factors Emphasized to Assuage International Concern -- (vii)Evaluation -- (5) The Countervailing Interests -- (6) The Evolution of the Archipelago Concept -- 2. Delimitation of the Baseline of the Territorial Sea Around Mid-Ocean Archipelagos: Archipelagic Straight Baseline Systems -- (1) General.

(2) The Juridical Basis for Delimiting Archipelagic Straight Baselines -- (i) The Fictive Bay Concept -- (ii) The Normal Straight Baseline- Coastal Archipelago Analogy -- (iii) The Historic Waters Approach -- (iv) The Fictive Island Concept -- (v) The Case for a Special Regime of Archipelagic Straight Baseline Systems -- (3) The Problem of Defining a Mid-Ocean Archipelago: the Criteria for Determining the Applicability of an Archipelagic Straight Baseline System -- (i) The Definition of 'Archipelago' -- (a) The Natural Feature -- (b) Criteria Determining the Requisite Cohesiveness of the Features -- (ii) The Geopolitical Scope of the Regime -- (a) The Question of Archipelagos Constituting Part of a Mainland State: State Archipelagos -- (b) The Archipelagic Entity -- (4) The Regime of Archipelagic Straight Baseline Systems -- (i) General Definitive Criteria -- (a) The Location of Basepoints -- (b) The Geopolitical Factor - Inclusion of the Main Islands -- (c) The Test of Proportionality: The Water-Land Ratio -- (ii) Delimitation of Archipelagic Straight Baselines: Specific Restrictive Criteria -- (a) Limitations on the Length of Straight Baseline Segments -- (b) Conformity with the General Configuration of the Archipelago -- (c) The Integration of Low- Tide Elevations -- (iii) Accommodation of the Interests of Other States -- (a) Avoidance of Screening Effects -- (b) Non-Interference with Existing Rights -- (iv) Public Notification of Archipelagic Baselines -- 3. The Archipelagic Regime -- (1) Jurisdictional Limits in Outer Sea Areas -- (2) The Regime of Archipelagic Waters -- (i) Geographical Limits -- (ii) Juridical Status -- (3) Exceptions to the Principle of Sovereignty over Archipelagic Waters -- (i) Established Rights and Preferential Rights -- (a) Preferential Rights of Immediately Adjacent Neighbouring States.

(b) Rights of States under Existing Agreements, and Existing Submarine Cables -- (ii) Rights of Passage through Archipelagic Waters -- (a) The Right of Innocent Passage -- (b) The Question of Passage through Archipelagic Straits and the Regime of Archipelagic Sea-Lanes Passage -- (4) Some Examples of State Practice Relating to Archipelagos -- (i) Ecuador -- (ii) India -- (iii) The Maldives -- (iv) Fiji -- PART THREE: THE EFFECT GIVEN ISLANDS IN INTER-STATE DELIMITATION -- Chapter 6: ISLANDS IN INTER-STATE BOUNDARY RIVERS -- 1. General -- 2. Methods of Delimiting Inter-State Boundaries in Rivers -- 3. The Treatment of Islands in Navigable Rivers where the Thalweg Constitutes the Boundary -- (1) General -- (i) The Thalweg as a River Boundary -- (ii) Delimitation According to the Thalweg in the Presence of Islands -- (a) The General Rule -- (b) Application of the Thalweg Rule where a River Splits into Several Navigable Channels as a Result of the Presence of Islands -- (c) Exceptions to the General Rule -- (2) The Effect of a Change in the Geographical Situation -- (i) Alterations in the Thalweg -- (ii) Alterations in the Thalweg and the Effect on Islands -- (3) Changes in the Insular Geography -- (i) Changes in the Occurrence of Islands -- (a) The Emergence of New Islands -- (b) The Case of Islands which Disappear and Reappear -- (c) 'Mobile Islands' -- (ii) Accretionary Changes -- (a) Islands Becoming Joined to a River Bank -- (b) Islands Becoming Joined to Each Other -- (c) Accretions to Islands -- (iii) Fission: An Island is Split into Two or More Parts -- 4. The Treatment of Islands in Rivers where the Medium Filum Aquae Constitutes the Boundary -- (1) General -- (i) The Medium Filum Aquae as a River Boundary -- (ii) Delimitation According to the Medium Filum Aquae in the Presence of Islands.

(a) Construction of the Median Line in the Presence of Islands -- (b) Allocation of Sovereignty over Islands: The General Rule -- (c) Islands Located in the Middle of a River -- (2) The Effect of a Change in the Geographical Situation -- (i) Alterations of the Medium Filum Aquae -- (ii) Alterations in the Medium Filum Aquae: The Effect on Islands -- (3) Changes in the Insular Geography -- (i) Changes in the Occurence of Islands -- (ii) Accretionary Changes -- 5. The Treatment of Islands in Rivers where the Bank Constitutes the Boundary -- (1) General -- (i) Utilization of the Bank as the Boundary -- (a) Where the Boundary is Constituted by the Banks of the River -- (b) Where the Boundary is Constituted by One Bank -- (c) The Definition of 'Bank' -- (ii) Utilization of the Bank as a Boundary: Determination of the Status of Islands -- (iii) Changes in the Geographical Situation: Alterations of the Bank and Insular Geography -- 6. The Treatment of Islands in Rivers where Other Methods of Delimitation are Utilized -- (1) General -- (2) Delimitation According to Straight Line Segments: The Treatment of Islands -- (3) Ad Hoc Treatment -- Chapter 7: ISLANDS IN INTERNATIONAL LAKES -- 1. General -- 2. Methods of Delimiting Inter-State Boundaries in Lakes -- 3. The Treatment of Islands in Delimiting Inter-State Boundaries in Lakes -- (1) The Treatment of Islands in International Lakes where the Median Line Constitutes the Boundary -- (i) Methods of Delimiting Median Line Boundaries in Lakes -- (a) A Line Being at All Points Equally Distant fromEach Shore: The 'Landman's Median' -- (b) A Line Following the General Lines of the Shore Dividing the Surface of the Water Area as Nearly as Practicable into Two Equal Parts: An Approximate Median.

(c) A Line Along the Mid-Channel Dividing theNavigable Portion of the Lake, and Being at All Points Equally Distant from the Shoal Water on Each Shore: The Navigable Median.