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The International Law Commission and the Continental Shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1952

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References

1 Text in Beport of the Commission of its Third Session, U. N. General Assembly, 6th Sess., Official Records, Supp. No. 9 (Doc. A/1858), pp. 17–20; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 45 (1951), pp. 139–147.

2 U.N. General Assembly, 5th Sess., Official Records Supp. No. 12 (Doc. A/1316), p. 22; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 44 (1950), pp. 147, 148.

3 For a recent exposition of the view that the requirement of effective occupation should be maintained with respect to submarine areas, see Green, L. C., “The Continental Shelf,” Current Legal Problems (1951), pp. 5480 Google Scholar.

4 10 Fed. Eeg. (1945), p. 12304; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 40 (1946), p. 46.

5 See the International Whaling Convention, Dec. 2, 1946, U. S. Treaties and Other International Acts Series, No. 1849, this Journal, Supp., Vol. 43 (1949), p. 174; Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council Agreement, Feb. 26, 1948, U. S. Treaties and Other International Acts Series, No. 1895; Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention, Feb. 8, 1949, ibid., No. 2089, this Journal, Supp., Vol. 45 (1951), p. 40.