A study nationality of ship and corporations

In considering the place of corporations and ships in international law, it is tempting to solve the issues which arise by way of the shortcut of persuasive analogies. Corporations in the widest sense, that is to say, entities endowed with legal personality under municipal law, may be likened to physical persons and, on this basis, regarded as nationals of a particular State. The exclusive jurisdiction of States on the high seas over ships entitled to sail under their maritime flag may be explained as a form of quasi territorial jurisdiction and, on this ground, nationality attributed to ships.