File includes a first draft of "Resolution XXX of the General Assembly," prepared for the 1968-1969 session of the United Nations. The draft is accompanied by a memorandum from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to the staff at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, discussing the sources of several ideas in the draft.
File contains a paper, which identifies recommendations for harmonizing and strengthening the convention on the law of the sea and the treaty, with respect to the prohibition of the emplacement of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the seabed and the ocean floor. Paper was originally filed under the heading "Disarmament," and is by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains a draft paper of the "nonpaper" written with the International Ocean Institute (IOI) for the Group of 77 entitled: "Agreement on the Establishment of an Interim Regime From the Coming into Force of the Convention to the Time When Commercial Seabed Mining Becomes Economically and Ecologically Feasible."
File includes a copy of the article from the "Ocean Science on Station," June 23, 1980 issue. Also includes a reading list, and a handwritten note to Mann Borgese.
File contains statements by Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf, including a working paper submitted for consideration by the Group of 77, and a paper on the Austrian proposal, JEFERAD (Joint Enterprise For Exploration, Research And Development in Ocean Mining).
File contains a reprint, taken from "The Mineral Resources Potential of the Earth" edited by F. Bender. Contains a handwritten dedication. See also MS-2-744, Box 218, Folder 9, for an earlier draft.
File contains a paper by Renate Platzöder, originally presented to the symposium "The Minteral Resources of the Earth," held in April 1979, in Hannover, West Germany.
File contains two copies of the report (one in English, the other in Spanish), on the second session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS). The papers were written for the Club of Rome (CoR).
File contains a comparison of the "Revised Single Negotiating Text," part I and annexes I - III, with the "Evensen text," and the "Informal Composit Negotiating Text," part VI and annexes II, II, and V.
File contains an excerpt from the Congressional Record of the United States Senate, regarding the Fifth Session of the Law of the Sea. Senator Clairborne Pell read "The Complexities of a Sea Change" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese into the record.
File contains a paper prepared for review on July 31, 1975 by the Group on Technical Issues in the Law of the Sea of the American Society for International Law.
File contains a copy of "Conservation and the New Law of the Sea," a report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Commission for Environmental Policy, Law, and Administration. The report contains a paper by Douglas Johnston and Norman Letalik ("Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea (1980): The Emerging International Obligations for the Preservation of the Marine Environment") attached as an annex.
File contains an intervention (statement) by Arvid Pardo in the main committee to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction.
File includes copies of an interview with Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the Law of the Sea in "Development Forum" (volume 5, number 7). Includes both an English and a French copy.
File contains a pre-print of an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese summary originally published in the book "International Legal Issues Arising under the United Nations Decade of International Law." Mann Borgese's session dealt with problems arising with respect to highly migratory fish stocks and straddling stocks.
File contains two copies (one is an earlier draft) of an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese regarding the Fifth Session of the Third Law of the Sea Conference.
File includes two different statements on the Second Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) III in Caracas, by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Also includes a background document on the session.
File includes three reviews by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. One, published in "Fisheries Research," is entitled "Sea Law" and is a review of "The Evolution of the Sea Law. A Study of Resources and Strategy, with Special Regard to the Polar Areas" by Bo Johnson Theutenberg. The other two, originally published in "Third World Quarterly" are reviews of "Internationalising the Seabed" by Roderick C. Ogley, and "Markets Under the Sea?" by D.R. Denman.
File contains a reprint of a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, published in the San Diego Law Review (volume 11, number 3). The paper discusses the need to transform the concepts of "sovereignty" and "ownership" with respect to the deep oceans and seabeds.
File contains the first draft of a report by legal scholar Douglas M. Johnston, commissioned by the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (the "Macdonald Commission").
File contains a description of the second session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) III, which took place in Caracas, Venezuela from June 20th to August 29th, 1974. There are some handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the reverse of several pages.
File contains documents pertaining to Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Includes the Boat Paper, which was a controversial paper, to which the nonpaper (which the International Ocean Institute (IOI) was involved in writing) was a response. File also includes a report from the Secretary-General's informal consultations on the topic.
File contains a background paper. Full title: "Concerning the Difficulties Raised at the Last Informal Consultation of the Secretary-General with Respect to the Deep Sea-Bed Mining Provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea."
File includes a copy of a paper submitted to the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Law of the Sea Institute, "Transfer of Technology and UNCLoS III: Draft Convention."
File contains two copies of an op-ed article written by Elisabeth Mann Borgese for the Christian Science Monitor (one is an edited (abbreviated) version).The articles deal with the forthcoming Seventh Session of the Law of the Sea Conference.
File contains a copy of a German language report (translation: "Workplan for the Dissertation"). Full title: "Arbeitsplan für des Dissertationsvorhaben: Die III seerechtskonferenz der vereinten nationen aus der perspektive der auseinandersetzung um eine neue weltwirtschaftliche ordnung."
File contains background papers distributed by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Includes "The United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of the Sea" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese,"The Preparations for the Law of the Sea Conference" by John R. Stevenson and Bernard Oxman, and "The Latin American Contribution to the Development of the Law of the Sea" by F.V. García-Amador. Also includes a brief letter from Ambassador John R. Stevenson (the American Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Conference) on the Fifth Pacem in Maribus (PIM V) Convocation.
File contains a cover letter advertising a conference addressing the Algiers Recommendation (at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions), and a background paper entitled "The Law of the Sea" (CID. 1/ALG/C.B.1/Rev/1). File contains a duplicate copy of the paper which was not digitized.
File contains a paper regarding the third United Nations conference on the law of the sea by Arvid Pardo, ahead of the Caracas meeting. The paper is from the National Press Club.
File contains a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, detailing the history of the "marine revolution" which lead to the Law of the Sea Convention. This version contains handwritten annotations by Mann Borgese.
File contains a speech by Arvid Pardo to the National Press Club, given in advance of the 1974 meeting of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III) in Caracas, Venezuela. This version has handwritten corrections by Pardo.
File contains a memo is from the Federal Republic of Germany, Singapore, Nepal, and Zambia to Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the Chairman of the Second Committee of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III) on the concept of an economic zone. The file also contains handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains a memorandum to the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, encouraging discussion of marine resources, ocean management, and the new Law of the Sea on their agenda.
File contains a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, which concerns the common heritage of mankind and the nature of the proposed Seabed Authority. A copy of a draft version, with handwritten corrections .
File contains a draft of the paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, regarding the sixth session of UNCLoS (the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea).
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