...Netherlands is a traditional advocate of the principle that the high seas are open to all States and that no State may validly purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty. It was the Netherlands scholar Grotius who upheld this doctrine in his book Mare Libemm, published...

...part, Article 87 provides: 1. The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or land-locked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law. It compromises, inter alia, both for coastal...

...87 Freedom of the high seas 1. The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or landlocked. ronmental measures addressing transboundary or global environmental pro this Convention and by other rules of international law. It comprises, inter alia, both for coastal...

...87 Freedom of the high seas 1. The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or landlocked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law. It comprises, inter alia, both for coastal...

...means all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or internal waters. Article 2 The high seas being open to all nations, no State...purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty 4 . Freedom of the high seas . . . comprises, inter alia, both for coastal and non-coastal States:...

...beyond national jurisdiction has eroded this wider definition. The high seas are open to all states and the crime is of a kind to disturb the peace of the country or the good ord (Article 2 of the HSC, Articles 87 and 89 of the LOSC). This is a fundamental rule of customary international...

...87 Freedom of the high seas 1. The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or land-locked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law. It comprises, inter alia, both for coastal...

...the deep seabed cannot be appropriated. Even the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas stated that "no State may validly purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty".41 As a matter of fact, no state so far has claimed territorial jurisdiction over any...

...modified for historical reasons or by international arrangement. Freedom of the high seas ARTICLE 27 The high seas being open to all nations, no State...them to its sovereignty. Freedom of the high seas comprises, inter alia: 1. Freedom of navigation; 2. Freedom of fishing; 3. Freedom to lay submarine...

...included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State" (Article 1) and declares that "the high seas being open to all nations, no State...purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty" (Article 2). Along with establishing the principle that the sea is a great void of non-territory, the...