WANG Mingyuan,SUN Xueyan
Journal of Renmin University of China.
The article starts by reviewing the theoretical points concerning the legal status of international seabed mineral resourcesbefore the promulgation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), such as “resnullius”,“res commune”and their underlying basic theory of“the Freedom of High Seas”;Secondly,the article analyzes the basic definition and defects of “common heritage of humankind”,the legal status of international seabed mineral resources established by the UNCLOS; Finally, in order to improve the management system of international seabed mineral resources, the article attempts to combine the“public trust ”doctrine with “common heritage of humankind”,and proposes that “common heritage of humankind under the framework of public trust” be the legal status of international seabed mineral resources