INTERNATIONAL LAW -- ANTI-SMUGGLING BILL -- JURISDICTION ON THE HIGH SEAS

Authors

James H. Roberton, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

The control which a littoral state may exercise over the adjacent sea has never been the subject of complete agreement among the nations of the world. Inability to agree and resulting confusion have arisen in many instances from a failure to distinguish between a claim of control over a definite strip of adjacent water, often spoken of as "territorial waters," analogous to the control exercised on land and a claim that, for the well-being of the littoral state, control for limited and specific purposes may be extended beyond these territorial waters. The most obvious example of this latter type of control is the enforcement of preventive measures upon vessels, foreign and domestic, which are attempting to violate the revenue laws of the littoral state by smuggling activities.

Recommended Citation

James H. Roberton, INTERNATIONAL LAW -- ANTI-SMUGGLING BILL -- JURISDICTION ON THE HIGH SEAS, 35 Mich. L. Rev. 1146 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol35/iss7/8