UN General Assembly "The [International Convention on the
Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone] was the culmination of
long years of work by the International Law Commission.
Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 to
codify international law, the Commission began deliberations on
the regime of the territorial sea in 1952 . . . . The General
Assembly adopted that recommendation and in 1958 convened the
First U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea in Geneva."