INTERNATIONAL REGIME FOR THE SEAS AND OCEANS: HISTORIOGRAPHIC NOTES

Considering the increasing importance of maritime space in the States' agenda, this article aims to present a historiographic synthesis about the evolution of the legal framework of the international regime for the seas and oceans, listing the main events that contributed to the establishment of concepts and principles that have developed throughout history, based on and governed by customary law, which later gave rise to standardization and effective codification at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1982. To this end, the adopted methodology uses the revision literature, proceeding to the construction of descriptive inferences referring to the proposed theme. It is hoped with this work to understand the evolution and crystallization of the Law of the Sea, contributing with the research in this recent field of study.Key words: International Regime, maritime delimitation, sovereignty, United Nations, maritime space.Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar breves apontamentos historiográficos acerca da evolução do arcabouço jurídico do regime internacional para os mares e oceanos, elencando os principais eventos que contribuíram para o estabelecimento de conceitos e princípios que se desenvolveram ao longo da história, baseados e regidos pelo direito consuetudinário, dando lugar, posteriormente, à normatização e codificação efetiva na III Conferência das Nações Unidas para o Direito do Mar em 1982