The catalogue (the exam's list): (1) the UNCLOS 1982 (the primary treaty source — the comprehensive code; the states-parties' consent and the non-parties' customary binding); (2) the customary international law (the UNCLOS's many rules as custom's codification — the territorial sea, the innocent passage, the high-seas freedoms; the persistent-objector's question); (3) the implementing agreements (the 1994 Part XI Agreement; the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement); (4) the general principles (the equity — the delimitation's craft; the good faith); (5) the judicial decisions (the ICJ's maritime line: the North Sea Continental Shelf, the Fisheries cases, the Continental Shelf cases; the ITLOS — the Law of the Sea Tribunal's Hamburg home; the UNCLOS Annex V-VIII tribunals); (6) the teachings-and-the doctrine (the scholars' codification role); (7) the soft law's faces (the FAO codes, the IMO guidelines); (8) the national legislation (the straight baselines' claims, the EEZ proclamations — the practice that becomes the custom).
Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The evolution's ladder (freedom-vs-closed → Geneva 1958 → UNCLOS 1982 — the banker); (ii) The sources' catalogue. Short questions: Mare Liberum; the cannon-shot rule; the 1994 Agreement's purpose. Trick areas: (i) UNCLOS 1982 is the "CONSTITUTION for the oceans" — comprehensive but NOT the only source (custom beside it); (ii) The GENEVA conventions (1958) came FIRST — UNCLOS superseded/absorbed them; (iii) The cannon-shot rule → the 3-MILE belt (not 12 — the 12-mile rule is UNCLOS's modern settlement); (iv) Nepal's stake: the LANDLOCKED-state provisions (Units 7) — the course's recurring lens.