international waters law

• Air rage: choice of law for intentional torts occurring in flight over international waters.

I. AN INSTANCE OF AIR RAGE IN FLIGHT OVER INTERNATIONAL WATERS: THE HENCH CASE(1) Jennifer Olson, a fifteen-year veteran airline flight attendant fo...

• Albany Law Review
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 1, September 1999

• 22 USC 1980 - Sec. 1980a. Reimbursement of owner for fee paid to navigate foreign waters if fee inconsistent with international law

• US Code - Title 22: Foreign Relations and Intercourse

• Turkey Did Not Sponsor Gaza Flotilla

The aid convoy for Gaza organized in May 2010 was a humanitarian initiative with people from more than 30 countries (including the United States and Israel) in ships sailing under the flags of several nations. While there were private Turkish citizens among participants, the flotilla was not organized or even encouraged by the Turkish government, as Danny Danon conjures without evidence ("Why Turkey should apologize to Israel," Commentary, Aug. 15). Quite the contrary. Nine people lost their lives when Israeli commandos used excessive, lethal force and violated all established norms of international law by attacking the convoy in the international waters of the Mediterranean, as the U.N. Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission concluded in its report on the incident. Eight of the ni...

• The Washington Times
• August 22, 2011

• A New Challenge at Sea ; Provocations Against U.S. Survey Vessels

China's harassment of the civilian crewed U.S. Navy survey ship Impeccable operating in international waters approximately 70 miles south of Hainan Island was unprovoked and a flagrant violation of recognized Law of the Sea regulations. Their harassment of a survey ship operating in international waters within China's claimed Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a direct challenge to the "freedom of seas" concept. There may have been another recent incident involving an unarmed U.S. Navy survey ship. A Chinese Communist Party newspaper recently reported on a similarly serious incident involving the unarmed USNS Bowditch survey ship in September 2008, operating in international water in the Yellow Sea area. This article cites the "Gazette of Marine Administrative Law Enforcement" published b...

• The Washington Times
• March 22, 2009

• United States v. Alaska, 521 U.S. 1 (1997)

... lands beneath tidal and inland navigable waters and submerged lands extending three miles seaward ... United States in its domestic and international affairs. If applied to Alaska's Arctic Coast, the ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Blockade Is Illegal

Recent letters and an OpEd in the Bangor Daily News supporting Israel's raid on a Gaza aid boat and the commando killings of nine civilians fail to mention that Israel's blockade in international waters to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza is a violation of international law and so also, therefore, is the boarding and searching of the flotilla boats by Israel - not to mention the murder of civilians. International law is clear that there cannot be a legal blockade in international waters without a "war" between the governments of two independent nations. Israel cannot be at war with Gaza because Gaza is an Israeli-occupied territory, not an independent nation. Therefore, Israel's illegal blockade, and the subsequent killing of civilians, must be challenged quickly in the U.N....

• Bangor Daily News
• June 16, 2010

• 50 CFR 300.31 - Definitions.

...CHAPTER III: INTERNATIONAL FISHING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES. PART 300: INTERNAT...SOLOMON ISLANDS. Delimitation of Marine Waters Act, 1978.Fisheries Act, 1972. Fisheries Limits Ac...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries

• Americans Expected to Travel More This Summer: ; Despite Terror Concerns and High Fuel Prices, Travel Industry Looks for Improvement Over 2003

Sharon Jones will travel abroad this summer for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks. Last year I was still frightened and had no desire to do that," said Jones, of Columbus, Ohio. Now, eager to dip her toes into international waters again, the part-time teacher will take her son and daughter-in-law to Cancun, Mexico.

• Charleston Gazette
• May 28, 2004

• Maritime piracy: how can international law and policy address this growing global menace?

... piracy, including in the territorial waters of Somalia. Norms prescribed under several convent...

• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 2, March 2011

• On International Law

In his Oct. 10-11 BDN OpEd on maritime transit, Gov. Baldacci stated that the right of passage in and out of Head Harbor Passage, Canadian waters, is "guaranteed by the International Law of the Sea Convention." He likewise stated that the Obama administration "reiterated their support for the right of innocent passage through Head Harbor Passage. Obviously, the governor doesn't realize that the United States has not ratified the Law of the Sea Convention. Perhaps the Baldacci administration should do its homework before it becomes involved in international issues. And perhaps the Obama administration should educate governors who come calling, rather than elucidate platitudes that have no reality in international law.

• Bangor Daily News
• October 15, 2009