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1.  What is the basis of modern sea law as accepted  by all maritime nations?

2.      a)  What is meant by the term territorial sea?

         b)  What territorial sea width does the United States recognize?

3.  What are the three main precepts of the international law of the sea?

4.  What did the 1964 Convention on the Continental Shelf say concerning the seabed and subsoil near coastal states?

5.  What two developments after World War II caused pressure for major changes in the law of the sea?

6.  What has been the purpose of the United Nations Law of the Sea Conferences since 1973?

7.  Which bloc of nations has made agreement on law of the seas difficult?  Why?

8.  What is meant by the term "innocent passage"?

9.  How are submarines affected by rules applying to innocent passage?

10.      a)  What is an archipelagic nation?

           b)  What are some problems that might arise regarding them from the standpoint of ship transits?

11.  What is the basic controversy concerning gulfs and bays as regards the territorial sea of a littoral nation?

12.      a)  What are rivers that lie entirely within one country called?

           b)   If they from a boundary between two or more countries, what are they called?

13.  What factor determines the boundary line between nations on an international river?

14.  What rules govern the use of major canals by belligerent nations?

15.  What does freedom of the seas include within the meaning of the term?

16.  What is meant by the term "residuum of authority" in the economic zone?

17.  What is the key legal difference between the territorial sea and the economic zone beyond the 12-mile limit?

18.  What self-defense measures may a nation take in the economic zone?

19.  Why have jurisdictional restrictions been imposed by most of the littoral states on the fisheries that are in their economic zone of the high seas?

20.  What particular resources are now becoming available from the seabed and subsoil of the continental shelf?

21.  How does the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf define the term 'continental shelf"? 

22.  Where is there now special activity in the continental shelf oil exploration and exploitation?