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BOOK REVIEWSBOOK REVIEWSKwiatkowskaBarbaraDrAssociate Director, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea051990371111116RosenneS., SohnL.B., eds., United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982. A Commentary, Vol. V, NordquistM.H., Editor-in-Chief, M. Nijhoff Publ., Dordrecht 1989, 497 pp. + Index, Dfl. 295/$165/£95.Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 19901990T.M.C. Asser PresspdfS0165070X00002813a.pdfdispartBook Reviews1.Vol. I of the series containing the text of the Convention and Introductory Material was published in 1985. The volumes still to be published include: Vol. II – Second Committee: Articles 1 to 132, Annexes I and II, and the Final Act, Annex II; Vol. Ill – First Committee: Articles 133 to 191, Annexes HI and IV, and the Final Act, Annex I, Resolution II; Vol. IV – Third Committee: Articles 192 to 278, and the Final Act, Annex VI; and Vol. VI – Comprehensive Index to Series, consolidated list of treaties, cases and appendices, additional reference material.2.For a general appraisal, see NandanS.N., ‘A Constitution for the Ocean: The 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention’, 1 Marine Policy Reports (1989) pp. 1–12; Council on Ocean Law (COL), The United States and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Synopsis of the Status of the Treaty and its Expanded Role in the World Today (1989). Note that the legislative history of the Convention is also the subject of some publications of the United Nations Office for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (OALOS), in particular, Pollution by Dumping (1985, E. 85.V.12); Rights of Access of Land-Locked States to and from the Sea and Freedom of Transit (1987, E.87.V.5); Regime of Islands (1988, E.87.V.11); and Navigation on the High Seas (1989, E.89.V.2). See also QALOS' Master File Containing References to Official Documents of the UNCLOS III (1985, E.85.V.9).3.See RosenneShabtai, Practice and Methods of International Law (1984) pp. 41–42, also pp. 14–15.4.Note that the important evidence of State positiKwiatkowska, Barbara · Netherlands International Law Review · 1990