Landmark case · Public International Law · Semester 4

Corfu Channel (United Kingdom v. Albania)

ICJ Reports 1949, p. 4 · International Court of Justice

Warships enjoy a right of innocent passage through international straits in peacetime; Albania should have notified the minefield.

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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 2–3 — Sovereignty over the territorial sea; breadth of 12 nautical miles
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 55–57 — Exclusive economic zone
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 76 — Definition of the continental shelf
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, 87 — Freedom of the high seas