F.A. Ahnish, The International Law of Maritime Boundaries and the Practice of States in the Mediterranean Sea, Oxford Monographs in International Law, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, xxi + 415 pp., £ 55. ISBN 0-19-825739-2.

1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (01) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Alex G. Oude Elferink
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals The Conflict Between Greece And Turkey In The Mediterranean Sea (International Maritime Law Study)

Jurnal Hukum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Edanur Yıldız
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Maritime Law ◽  
The Mediterranean

Turkey and Greece are again dragged into a new conflict in the East Mediterranean. Turkey and Greece vie for supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey, for its part, indicated that Greece's claim to the territory would amount to a siege in the country by giving Greece a disproportionate amount of territory. This study aims to rethink the conflict between Greece and Turkey in the waters of the Mediterranean sea in the view of international maritime law. This study uses an empirical juridical approach. The Result of this research is Turkey does not ignore the Greece rights, Greece ignores the international law with its extended or excessive maritime claims. Greece tries to give full entitlement of the islands in Mediterranean and Agean. Whereas the effect Formula is applied by international courts.

Operation Sophia in Uncharted Waters: European and International Law Challenges for the eu Naval Mission in the Mediterranean Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Butler ◽  
Martin Ratcovich
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
International Refugee Law

This article addresses the main legal challenges facing the European Union (eu) Naval Force, eunavfor Med (‘Operation Sophia’), established in 2015, to disrupt human smuggling and trafficking activities in the Mediterranean Sea. It examines a number of legal issues that have given rise to scepticism on the viability of this type of operation, ranging from challenges under European Union law regarding mandate and oversight, to complex questions of compliance with international law. Forcible measures may be at variance with the international law of the sea, binding on the eu and its Member States alike. Even if such strictures can be avoided by a broad United Nations mandate and/or the consent of the neighbouring government(s), international refugee law and international human rights law provide limitations on the measures that Operation Sophia will be tasked with. Different avenues will be explored to ensure the Operation’s compliance with these different legal regimes.

scholarly journals Seeking the Golden Fleece through Lampedusa: Situating Municipal Action in International Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Osatohanmwen OA Eruaga
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
Destination State

The crises of illegal migration by sea, currently plaguing the coastal States around the Mediterranean Sea, have created a situation of tightening border controls. Italy, as a choice destination State for many migrants, has continued to employ measures to ensure that the number of vessels carrying irregular migrants arriving onshore is reduced to the barest minimum. Push-back measures, which are conducted based on bilateral agreements with Libya, are one such method of seaward border management. This article questions the legality of the Italian push-back measures, as a representation of State interest, when placed next to international law. The paper argues that, since such measures of externalisation of border security may conflict with principles of international law, destination States should consciously adopt measures that are sensitive to migrant rights.

scholarly journals Barbary Coast in the expansion of international society: Piracy, privateering, and corsairing as primary institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 840-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Colás
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
International Society ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
European Standard ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Primary Institutions

AbstractFrom the ‘long’ sixteenth century the Ottoman regencies of North Africa operated as major centres of piracy and privateering across the Mediterranean Sea. Though deemed by emerging European powers to be an expression of the ‘barbarian’ status of Muslim and Ottoman rulers and peoples, piracy, and corsairing in fact played a major role in the development of the ‘primary’ or ‘master’ institutions of international society such as sovereignty, war, or international law. Far from representing a ‘barbarian’ challenge to the European ‘standard of civilization’, piracy and privateering in the modern Mediterranean acted as contradictory vehicles in the affirmation of that very standard.This article explores how Barbary piracy, privateering, and corsairing acted as ‘derivative’ primary institutions of international society. Drawing on recent ‘revisionist’ accounts of the expansion of international society, it argues that piracy and corsairing simultaneously contributed to the construction of law and sovereignty across the Mediterranean littoral whilst also prompting successive wars and treaties aimed at outlawing such practices. The cumulative effect of these complex historical experiences indicates that primary institutions of international society owe much more to ‘barbarism’ and ‘illegality’, an indeed to international stratification uneven development, than is commonly acknowledged.

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