The regulation of continental shelf development : : rethinking international standards / / edited by Myron H. Nordquist [and three others].

• Superior document: Center for Oceans Law and Policy ; volume 17
• Author: University of Virginia. Center for Oceans Law and Policy. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Nordquist, Myron H.; University of Virginia. Center for Oceans Law and Policy.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Center for Oceans Law and Policy (Series) ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: "The Regulation of Continental Shelf Development: Rethinking International Standards, is part of a series of publications on oceans law and policy associated with the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of law. This volume is based on presentations made June 20-23, 2012, at the Center's 36th annual Conference which was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The primary co-organizers of the Conference were the Virginia Center and the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University."

The lack of international conventional law governing the operational aspects of continental shelf activity may be characterized as unfinished business of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Convention, adopted in 1982, generally addressed the issue but did not consider more detailed develop...