Law of Sea and State Responsibility

Law of Sea and State Responsibility

A special lecture on Law of Sea and State Responsibility was delivered by Mrs.P.Shunmugapriya, Guest Faculty, School of Excellence in Law. The session focused on unconditional sovereign right and the state’s duty to grant the use of the flag , vessel registration etc. The lecture also discussed the need of a state action for protecting the oceans from various threats of private operators. The session also discussed various provisions of the conventions regulating sovereignty over bodies of water from  The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, the Convention on the Continental Shelf, the Convention on the High Seas, and the Geneva Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas—and by the comprehensive Law of the Sea treaty 1982 etc.