"Parts is Parts"
The LOSC has 17.
What are Parts?
With HQ in London, it regulates shipping.
What is the International Maritime Organization (IMO)?
What is a convention?
The LOSC has 171.
It is 1,852 meters long.
What is 1 nautical mile (M) (not nm, that's nanometers!)
As of 2026, the LOSC has 3.
What are implementing agreements?
They regulate specific species in specific parts of the high seas.
What are regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs)?
What is a treaty?
It has a guaranteed seat on the Council of the International Seabed Authority.
What is "the State, on the date of EIF of the Convention, having the largest economy in terms of GDP"?
This agreement was adopted in Montego Bay, Jamaica, during the Reagan administration.
What is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
LOSC dispute resolution provisions are found here.
What is Part XV?
All 21 wear robes in Hamburg, Germany.
What are judges on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)?
His 1945 proclamation shaped the continental shelf doctrine.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This coastal state enjoys the world's largest exclusive economic zone.
What is the United States of America?
Hugo G who wrote "The Free Sea" (probably not for free).
Who is Grotius?
The LOSC has 9.
What are Annexes?
This LOSC institution was impacted by Hurricane Melissa (October 2025).
What is the International Seabed Authority (ISA)?
Its formed by wide-spread state practice and a sense of legal obligation.
What is customary international law?
They are not bound by but must refrain from acts to defeat the object and purpose of a treaty.
What are signatories?
It has an area of 431,000 square kilometers.
The one-article LOSC Part.
What is Part VIII?
We recommend (but don't establish) continental shelf outer limits.
What is the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)?
These are subsidiary means for determining rules of international law.
What are judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists?
A characteristic shared by North Korea, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran and the USA (but not Cambodia as of 6 Feb 2026)?
What is LOSC non-party status?
These are the products of UNCLOS I.
What are the 1958 Geneva Conventions?