An account of the legal regime of straits and the allocation of rights and duties relating to transit passage.

Straits are peripheral formations in the study of geography, but have long been a source of controversy in international relations. They connect separate seas a

This is the thirteenth book in the series International Straits of the World initiated and edited at the Graduate College of Marine Studies of the University of

The four 1958 Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea, which codi?ed and progressively developed this sector of our legislation, were rather ephemeral despite

The importance of straits, particularly those used in international navigation, has been long recognized in international law. One of the important debates duri