Navigating Straits

Professor David Caron is Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. He relocated to London in May 2013 from California, where he was the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute. He currently serves, among other things, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Rule of Law, member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law, and as a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.Nilufer Oral is a member of the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University and is Deputy Directory of the Istanbul Bilgi Research Center for the Law of the Sea. She also serves as co‐chair of the IUCN Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs for the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, and is Chair of the IUCN Academy on Environmental Law. She is a Distinguished Senior Visiting Scholar at Law of the Sea Institute, UC Berkeley School of Law (2011-2014).

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTSTABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION BY EDITORSPART I The Straits Regime in the 1982 Law of the Sea ConventionCHAPTER 1THE GREAT STRAITS DEBATE: THE CONFLICT, DEBATE, AND COMPROMISE THAT SHAPED THE STRAITS ARTICLES OF THE 1982 UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA. by Dean David D. Caron CHAPTER 2RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF STRAIT STATES by Jon M. Van DykePART II SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTCHAPTER 3MAKING OR BREAKING THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF TRANSIT PASSAGE? MEETING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY CHALLENGES IN THE TORRES STRAIT WITH COMPULSORY PILOTAGE by Donald K. AntonCHAPTER 4CANADA AND THE GOVERNANCE OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE: ROUGH WATERS, COOPERATIVE CURRENTS, SEA OF CHALLENGESby David L. VanderZwaagPART III SPECIAL REGIMESCHAPTER 5THE BALTIC STRAITS by Said MahmoudiCHAPTER 6THE STRAIT OF MESSINA AND THE PRESENT REGIME OF INTERNATIONAL STRAITS by Tullio ScovazziCHAPTER 7PROTECTION OF THE SEA LANES IN THE JEJU WATERS AND MARITIME COOPERATION IN NORTHEAST ASIA by Boo-Chan Kim and Seokwoo LeeCHAPTER 8ARTICLE 35(C) STRAITS OF THE UN LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTIONby Dolunay ÖzbekCHAPTER 9THE TURKISH STRAITS AND THE THE LEGAL REGIME OF PASSAGE by Yüksel InanCHAPTER 10THE SEA OF AZOV AND THE KERCH STRAITS by Alexander SkaridovPART IVSECURITY, PIRACY AND TERRORISMCHAPTER 11IMO POLICIES AND ACTIONS REGARDING PIRACY by Captain J. Ashley Roach, JAGC, USN (retired)CHAPTER 12SECURING THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS STRAIT? THE BAB-AL MANDEB AND GULF OF ADEN by Clive SchofieldCHAPTER 13SECURITY, PIRACY AND TERRORISM IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA AND SINGAPORE by Mary GeorgeCHAPTER 14SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT – SOME REFLECTIONS Kuen-chen FUCHAPTER 15COOPERATION IN THE STRAITS OF MALACCA AND SINGAPORE Takashi Ichioka