중첩주장수역에서의 관할권 행사

An overlapping zone is not an high seas but undelimited area between the concerned states in a relatively narrow coast, and so its jurisdiction by any specified country is also not established in terms of the law of the sea. Accordingly, conflicts and disputes in this area with regard to maritime jurisdiction exercises and maritime boundaries between the concerned states will be currently occurred and getting serious. As a result of that, the area can be one of the disputed zones, which will be highly and internationally sensitive areas. In particular, some problems on the limit of lawful jurisdictional measures and responses by the concerned states can be happened when other states unilaterally conduct maritime activities such as fishing, exploitation of natural resources and marines scientific research in the overlapping areas. Under the above mentioned background and necessities, this study firstly examines the limit and the extent of jurisdiction exercise. And then, this paper will touch upon the contents of detailed maritime jurisdiction, its legal limit, and relevant cases. After that, the study will make a proposal for solving conflicts between the concerned states regarding overlapping areas, and finally suggests the concrete extent of maritime jurisdiction enforcement and its legal limit in the overlapping zones.