4.3 Sources of the Law of the Sea

1. **The Convention's (the UNCLOS-1982 (the primary (the 320-articles (the 9-annexes (the 1994- Agreement (the xi's-agreement (the integral-part (the interpretive (the "the-together- read")))))))); 2. **The customary's (the convention-plus (the zones-customary (the even-non-parties (the US- and-the-1982 (the mostly-bound (the "the-by-custom")))))); the "the-instant-custom" (the EEZ's-swift (the 200-in-a-decade (the practice-plus-the-opinion (the exam's-example))))); 3. **The treaties' (the complementing (the FSA-1995 (the fish-stocks (the straddling (the "the- high-seas-and-the-EEZ" (the "the-regional")))); the Port-State-Measures (the 2009's (the "the- IUU's-bar")))); the regional's (the seas'-bodies (the REMPs (the regional-environmental (the "the-parties'-planning"))))); 4. **The judicial's (the ITLOS (the Hamburg (the 1996 (the 21-judges (the prompt-release (the provisional (the "the-full-merits"))))); the ICJ's (the maritime-cases (the Libya-Malta (the North- Sea (the "the-Continental-Shelf" (the delimitation's-line (the names-only)))))); the arbitral's (the Annex-VII (the default (the South-China-Sea-2016 (the Philippines-China (the award (the China's-refusal (the "the-enforcement's-lesson" (the exam's-current-example)))))))))); 5. **The soft-and-the-institutional's (the FAO's-codes (the IMO's-conventions (the MARPOL-and- the-SOLAS (the shipping's-standards (the "the-technical-treaty-family"))))); the IAEA's-and-the- others (the agencies' (the "the-law-through-the-bodies" (the "the-DG's-guidance"))));