caa a22 4500 386381348 CHVBK 20180307112042.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008197300108359 doi S0008197300108359 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008197300108359 Vasciannie Stephen Part XI of the Law of the Sea Convention and Third States: Some General Observations [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Vasciannie] On 30 April 1982, after almost a decade of careful negotiations at the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Law of the Sea Convention was adopted by the positive votes of 130 States. In one of its main sections, Part XI, the Convention sets out a detailed regime for the exploration and exploitation of the deep seabed and its resources and firmly places deep seabed mining under the regulatory control of the International Seabed Authority, to be established in Jamaica. However, as is well known, the United States and certain other Western countries have adopted a negative posture towards various aspects of Part XI and, for this reason, they are unlikely to ratify the 1982 Convention in the near future. Against this background, the question whether the provisions in Part XI may be binding even vis-à-vis non-parties to the LOSC has assumed considerable importance in contemporary international law. Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1989 The Cambridge Law Journal Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-03), 85-97 0008-1973 48:1<85 1989 48 CLJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197300108359 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197300108359 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Vasciannie Stephen NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Cambridge Law Journal Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-03), 85-97 0008-1973 48:1<85 1989 48 CLJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge