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Shipping was one of the earliest channels of commerce, and rules for resolving maritime trade disputes were developed early. An ancient example was the Rhodian law (Nomos Rhodion Nautikos), of which no extensive written specimen has survived, but which is alluded to in other legal texts (Roman and Byzantine legal codes), and later the customs of the Consulate of the Sea and the Hanseatic League.
Law of the sea – International law concerning maritime environments; Law of salvage – Principle of maritime law; Legal assessments of the Gaza flotilla raid – Evaluation of action by Israeli navy; List of territories governed by the United Nations; Maritime Security Regimes – Security portions of customary maritime law
The list encompasses adjacent maritime nations and territories with a special focus on the boundaries or borders which distinguish them. For purposes of this list, " maritime boundary " includes boundaries that are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , which includes boundaries of territorial waters , contiguous ...
Mare Liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius is one of the earliest works on law of the sea. Law of the sea (or ocean law) is a body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments. [1] It concerns matters such as navigational rights, sea mineral claims, and coastal waters jurisdiction.
This is a list of maritime boundary treaties. Maritime boundary treaties are treaties that establish a specified ocean or sea boundary between two or more countries or territories. These are also called maritime boundary agreements , maritime delimitation treaties , or maritime delimitation agreements .
Maritime administrations, or flag state administrations, are the executive arms/state bodies of each government responsible for carrying out the shipping responsibilities of the state, and are tasked to administer national shipping and boating issues and laws within their territorial waters and for vessels flagged in that country, or that fall under their jurisdiction.
Flag states must, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , ensure that ships under their flag comply with international regulations, often adopted by the UN's International Maritime Organization , on matters of safety, navigation, crewing etc. Part XII entails special provisions on protecting the marine ...
Maritime spaces with mixed legal regime, which fall under both the jurisdiction of the coastal State and under the international law: contiguous zone, the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone, and; Maritime spaces that can be used by all States (including land-locked ones) on an equal basis: high seas.