Download or read book Jurisdiction of the Coastal State over Foreign Merchant Ships in Internal Waters and the Territorial Sea written by Haijiang Yang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general international law regarding foreign merchant ships in internal waters has never been codified. The question of the breadth of the territorial sea was finally solved during the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. But conflicts between coastal States and foreign merchant ships in internal waters and the territorial sea may arise. This comprehensive study analyses these issues and strives for reasonable and generally acceptable solutions.