What is it about?
Tis article examines whether actual state practice adheres to rules that sovereign rights under UNCLOS shall not include ownership of petroleum resources in situ.
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Why is it important?
It reveals that actual practice contravense conventional rule. The conventional rule is based on natural law.
Perspectives
It is the first time that the ownership status of transboundary resources is examined.
Melissa Loja
University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: Who Owns the Oil that Traverses a Boundary on the Continental Shelf in an Enclosed Sea? Seeking Answers in Natural Law through Grotius and Selden, Leiden Journal of International Law, November 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0922156514000405.
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