Hugo Caminos is a former judge (1996-2011) at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and a member of the Institut de Droit International. He was Deputy Director of the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and Legal Counsel for the Organization of American States.
Introduction; Part I. Law of Peace and Law of War: 1.1. General; 1.2.
Treaty regimes; 1.3. A law of war for straits?; Part II. Right of Transit
Passage Ratione Loci: Straits Used for International Navigation: 2.
Applicability of the right of transit passage under UNCLOS Part III -
Exclusions: 3. Applicability of the right of transit under Part III -
straits used for international navigation defined; Part III. Right of
Transit Ratione Materiae: Definition of Transit Passage: 4. Transit passage
and other passage rights; 5. Transit passage defined; Part IV. Allocation
of Jurisdiction over the Right of Transit Passage and Archipelagic Sea
Lanes Passage: 6. Sovereignty of states bordering straits and archipelagic
states; 7. Limitations to the sovereignty of states bordering straits and
archipelagic states: rights and duties of coastal states; 8. Duties of
ships and aircraft in transit; 9. Striking a balance between the
sovereignty of states bordering straits and the right of transit; Part V.
International Co-operation for the Safety of Navigation and the Prevention,
Reduction and Control of Pollution in Straits: 10. Preliminary remarks and
genesis of Article 43 of the UNCLOS; 11. Scope of Article 43:
interpretation and suggested implementation; 12. Co-operative schemes: the
special case of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore; Part VI. Multiple
Regimes for Straits?; 13. UNCLOS as general framework; 14. Marine Protected
Areas; Part VII. Conclusion: 15. Straits and dispute settlement; 16.
Transit passage and customary law; 17. Concluding remarks.
