The un convention on law of the sea and the institution of the international tribunal for the law of the sea

Fernanda Weigert, Rui Aurélio de Lacerda Badaró

Abstract


The main goal of this article is to present some issues related to the institution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea starting from the Montego Bay Convention of 1982, showing its main characteristics and most important confl ict resolution methods. Th e methodology used in this research is the analysis concepts brought by authors like Paulo Borba Casella, Adherbal Meira Mattos, Th omas A. Mensah and Tafsir Malick Ndiaye, taking their thoughts and concepts as grounds for a synthesis on the main subjects involving the Convention and the Tribunal’s Rules, such as provide a general view of concepts brought by the Law of the Sea Convention and its confl ict resolution procedures to comment the barriers that States have to deal with in order to assess the Tribunal.

Keywords


Direito do Mar, Tribunal, Resolução de Conflitos

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v9i1.1614

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