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BOOK REVIEW - BERNAERTS’ GUIDE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
BERNAERTS’ GUIDE TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA by Arnd Bernaerts, Dr. Jur., Dipl. Nant., Master Mariner, Attorney-at-Law (Hamburg Bar). Fairplay Publications Ltd., Coulsdon (1988, xiv and 131 pp., plus 209 pp. Appendix and 21 pp. Index). Paperback.
In preparing this work Bernaerts appears to have had two non-controversial goals in mind. First, to make the full text of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which he views as “the Magna Carta” of this branch of international law (p. 130), more widely accessible
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