Underwater cultural heritage and international law
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Underwater cultural heritage and international law
(Cambridge studies in international and comparative law)
Cambridge University Press, 2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2013 ... First paperback edition 2014"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 375-387
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001, which entered into force internationally in 2009, is designed to deal with threats to underwater cultural heritage arising as a result of advances in deep-water technology. However, the relationship between this new treaty and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is deeply controversial. This study of the international legal framework regulating human interference with underwater cultural heritage explores the development and present status of the framework and gives some consideration to how it may evolve in the future. The central themes are the issues that provided the UNESCO negotiators with their greatest challenges: the question of ownership rights in sunken vessels and cargoes; sovereign immunity and sunken warships; the application of salvage law; the ethics of commercial exploitation; and, most crucially, the question of jurisdictional competence to regulate activities beyond territorial sea limits.
Table of Contents
- 1. The evolution of international law on underwater cultural heritage
- 2. Defining underwater cultural heritage
- 3. Ownership and other interests in underwater cultural heritage
- 4. Sunken state vessels and aircraft
- 5. Application of salvage law and the law of finds
- 6. Commercial exploitation of underwater cultural heritage
- 7. Rights, jurisdiction and duties under general international law
- 8. UNESCO Convention 2001: jurisdictional mechanisms
- 9. UNESCO Convention 2001: implementation issues
- 10. UNESCO Convention 2001: further matters
- Final reflections.
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