Law of the sea (or ocean law) is a body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments. It concerns matters such...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international...

The Law of the Sea is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Otto Brower, and starring William Farnum, Sally Blane and Rex Bell, as well as Priscilla...

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations Conference...

multilateral treaties. Admiralty law may be distinguished from the law of the sea, which is a body of public international law dealing with navigational rights...

A sea is a large body of salt water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the Ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters...

the South China Sea involve conflicting island and maritime claims in the South China Sea made by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the People's...

Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (Spanish: Mediterráneo) is a 2021 Spanish-Greek drama film directed by Marcel Barrena, which stars Eduard Fernández, Dani...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the...

The United States was among the nations that participated in the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, which took place from 1974 through...

Command of the sea (also called control of the sea or sea control) is a naval military concept regarding the strength of a particular navy to a specific...

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors...

custom of the sea is a custom said to be practiced by the officers and crew of ships and boats in the open sea, as distinguished from maritime law, which...

simplified and vernacular laws such as The Farmers' Law, The Sea Laws, The Military Laws or the lesser known Mosaic Law, the different Orthodox and Hellenistic...

the territorial sea. Vessels have different rights and duties when passing through each area defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the...

open to the open ocean at the surface, and/or bounded by submarine ridges on the sea floor. The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that...

part of them to its sovereignty." The Convention on the High Seas was used as a foundation for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)...

inland sea is merely a very large lake. Rydén, Migula, and Andersson and Deborah Sandler of the Environmental Law Institute add that an inland sea is "more...

The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula...

set out, among other things, the "rules of the road" or navigation rules to be followed by ships and other vessels at sea to prevent collisions between...

The Crossing of the Red Sea or Parting of the Red Sea (Hebrew: קריעת ים סוף, romanized: Kriat Yam Suph, lit. "parting of the sea of reeds") is an episode...

the popularized name of the agreement. It is an agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The text was finalised during...

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant...

as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is the line (or curve) along the coast from which the seaward limits of a state's territorial...

Freedom of navigation (FON) is a principle of law of the sea that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other...

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets out minimum safety standards in the...

established in the high seas of the region. Prior to World War II, China, France, and Japan disputed over the Paracel and Spratly Islands. After the war, Brunei...

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...

space, including both the waters and the sea bottom. However, the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has prescribed...

January 2021, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution proclaiming this. In 2021, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea confirmed...