UIC Law Review Volume 53 Issue 4 Article 5 2021 The Right to Access the Sea and Why India Should Pioneer It, 53 UIC J. Marshall L. Rev. 947 (2021) Dhananjay Sahai Prashant Khurana Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, and the Law of the Sea Commons Recommended Citation Dhananjay Sahai & Prashant Khurana, The Right to Access the Sea and Why India Should Pioneer It, 53 UIC J. Marshall L. Rev. 947 (2021) https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview/vol53/iss4/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UIC Law Open Access Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in UIC Law Review by an authorized administrator of UIC Law Open Access Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE SEA AND WHY INDIA SHOULD PIONEER IT BY DHANANJAY SAHAI*& PRASHANT KHURANA** I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................... 948 II. PART I: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE SEA .......................................................................... 950 1. The Flag State Declaration ............................... 950 2. Barcelona Convention and Statute of Freedom of Transit, 1922 ..................................................... 951 3. The Fifth Committee ......................................... 952 4. The Geneva Convention on the High Seas ...... 953 5. The U.N. Convention on Law of the Seas – Textual Analysis .............................................................. 953 B. Article 124 of UNCLOS ........................................... 954 C. Article 125 of UNCLOS and Freedoms of the Sea . 954 D. Additional Articles of UNCLOS Narrowing the Sovereignty Limitation ............................................ 956 E. Outside the Confines of Part X of UNCLOS .......... 957 F. The Three-Fold Approach to Determine International Law ..........................................................................