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The Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities. An Attempt to Break New Ground. By Rüdiger Wolfrum. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1991. Pp. vii, 205. Index. DM 85.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christopher C. Joyner
Christopher C. Joyner*
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The George Washington University
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 360 - 363
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1993

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References

1 June 2, 1988, Antarctic Treaty Doc. AMR/SCM/88/78, reprinted in 27 ILM 859 (1988). For background discussion of the Antarctic Minerals Convention, see Francisco Orrego Vicuña, Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Framework (1988); and Christopher C. Joyner, The Antarctic Minerals Negotiating Process, 81 AJIL 888 (1987).

2 See Malcolm Browne, France and Australia Kill Pact on Limited Antarctic Mining and Drilling, N.Y. Times, Sept. 25, 1989, at A10.

3 June 21, 1991, Antarctic Treaty Doc. XI ATSCM/2, done Oct. 4, 1991, reprinted in 30 ILM 1455 (1991).

4 Wolfrum here cites Leland M. Goodrich, Edvard Hambro & Anne Patricia Simons, Charter of the United Nations 142 (3d ed. 1969).

5 Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, GA Res. 34/68 (Dec. 5, 1979), Art. XI, reprinted in 18 ILM 1434 (1979).

6 Convention on the Law of the Sea, opened for signature Dec. 10, 1982, reprinted in Official Text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea with Annexes and Index, UN Sales No. E.83.V.5 (1983), 21 ILM 1261 (1982).

7 For elaboration, compare Riidiger Wolfrum, The Principle of the Common Heritage of Mankind, 43 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 312 (1983) with Christopher C. Joyner, Legal Implications of the Common Heritage of Mankind, 35 Int’l& Comp. L.Q. 190 (1986).

8 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Jan. 27, 1967, 18 UST 2410, 610 UNTS 205.

9 Supra note 6.

10 Mar. 22, 1985, reprinted in 26 ILM 1529 (1987); see also Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, done Sept. 16, 1987, reprinted in 26 ILM 1541 (1987).

11 See Christopher C. Jovner, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea 162–75 (1992).

12 See Antarctic Treaty Protocol on Environmental Protection: Hearing Before the Subcomms. on Oceanography, Great Lakes and the Outer Continental Shelf, Coast Guard and Navigation, and Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the House Comm. on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 102d Cong., 2d Sess. 169 (1992) (Statement of James Neil Barnes). See also Statement of Christopher Clayton Joyner, id. at 142.