CONFLICT OF JURISDICTION BETWEEN THE TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL COURTS

The goal that the researcher seeks is identification the conflict of jurisdiction between the Court of the Law of the Sea and other international Courts; As the relationship between the law of the sea disputes and International Courts is as old as the inception of these Courts, given that the law of the sea disputes arose under the provisions of public International Law, when the International Law of the sea was one of its branches, and thus was the subject of several judgments issued either by arbitration Courts, or about the Permanent Court of International Justice and then its successor the International Court of Justice, in addition to calling for the owners of the functional approach to specialized international Courts, which led to the creation of new International Courts, included in article (287) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of ​​1982, embodied in the International Court of the Law of Hot, an arbitration Court formed according to the annex the seventh of the Convention and a special arbitration Court, while maintaining the International Court of Justice as a settlement mechanism, and raised at the time fears of conflict of jurisdiction between these Courts, these concerns have become today a reality that International law must address.