Passage Through International Straits: A Right Preserved in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

Authors

Horace B. Robertson, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1979

Abstract

In 1971, when the negotiations leading to the development of a new treaty on the law of the sea were in their earliest stages, the head of the U.S. delegation, John R. Stevenson, declared that freedom of passage through international straits was an essential element of any agreement that would be acceptable to the United States.

Citation

Horace B. Robertson, Passage Through International Straits: A Right Preserved in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 20 Virginia Journal of International Law 801-857 (1979)