Marine Law Research Articles

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1993-1995

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1993-1995

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1994

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1994

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1993-94

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1993-94

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1993

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1993

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1994

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1994

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1989-1992 in South Africa

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1989-1992 in South Africa

S African multi-party negotiations forum: marine law issues

S African multi-party negotiations forum: marine law issues

Transition to a new South Africa: Marine law issues to be resolved?

The current constitutional negotiations in South Africa will cover marine law issues inter alia. The constitution should define the national territory which will be the basis for generating maritime zones. It should provide that internal waters and territorial waters are part of the national territory and should thus resolve a long-standing controversy. Constitutional provisions relating to resources will also be relevant to marine resources. The state which eventually emerges could be one in which entrenched competences are allocated to regions. Negotiations will have to establish whether any offshore competences are allocated to regions and if so, what they should be. Finally, reincorporation of coastal homelands, Ciskei and Transkei, will pose questions such as approximation of maritime zone regimes with that of South Africa and the application of maritime conventions, to which South Africa is a party, to areas which are presently Ciskei and Transkei.

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1993

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1992-1993

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1991-1993

Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1991-1993

Bi bl iography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1989-1992

Bi bl iography of Books and Periodical Articles on Marine and Coastal Law, 1989-1992

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Impact and Implementation. Proceedings of the Law of the Sea Institute, Nineteenth Annual Conference. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Marine Law and Policy, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. Edited by E. D. Brown and R. R. Churchill. Honolulu: The Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1987.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Impact and Implementation. Proceedings of the Law of the Sea Institute, Nineteenth Annual Conference. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Marine Law and Policy, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. Edited by E. D. Brown and R. R. Churchill. Honolulu: The Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1987. Pp. xiii, 639. Index. - Volume 83 Issue 1

Lying down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology

Law is understood, interpreted, and practiced by metaphor. The presently dominant, conceptual metaphor for law is that law is the bulwark of freedom. Milner S. Ball, in this experimental statement, invites the reader to consider an alternate metaphor: law is a medium of human solidarity. A more humane metaphor for law, Ball s alternative connotes an open-ended conductor allowing for exchange and flow rather than the defensive wall or barrier associated with bulwark. To discover how this alternate metaphor may take concrete form, Ball explores the law of the sea and coast while basing his discussion in broad theological terms. This provocative analysis of jurisprudence will interest academic and practicing lawyers, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists concerned with legal studies. Law as bulwark suggests a static, defensive posture that is all divisions and boundaries a contradiction to the meaning and purpose of law as well as destructive of human community. Law as medium, illuminated by Ball s analysis of international, federal, and state marine law, releases these barriers and promotes a flow of dialogue. When viewed in this way, law serves the dynamics of a transfigured society. The metaphorical context of law as bulwark, depicted by Ball, is Fortress America; the metaphorical context of law as medium is the Peaceable Kingdom. Ball examines the possibilities and practice of law as the medium of the Peaceable Kingdom through a theological perspective based on a nonreligious, political theology of the natural. The author also draws imaginatively upon ecology, physics, art, literature, ethics, and rhetoric to persuade the reader to join him in his hope for a jurisprudence more authentically human and less inherently victimizing than that of the legal system today.

The North Sea: Sea Use Management and Planning, by Hance D. Smith & C.S. Lalwani. North Sea Research Unit, Centre for Marine Law and Policy, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, Wales, UK: 367 pp., 29 × 21 × 2 cm, paperback [no price indicated], 1984.

The North Sea: Sea Use Management and Planning, by Hance D. Smith & C.S. Lalwani. North Sea Research Unit, Centre for Marine Law and Policy, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, Wales, UK: 367 pp., 29 × 21 × 2 cm, paperback [no price indicated], 1984.

Sea Grants awarded

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded sea grants to the following institutions:The University of Rhode Island will receive $1,125,000 for coastal zone and fisheries research.The University of North Carolina has been awarded $410,000 for research in marine law, ocean engineering, aquaculture, and a wide range of estuarine studies of particular interest to North Carolina and the southeast coast of the U.S.

Ecology, law, and the ‘Marine Revolution’

The attainment of a world-wide high standard of living depends upon vastly increased resource exploitation, including the seas. Man's exploitive activities heretofore have simplified environments, reducing their stability and leading to ecosystem collapse (Fig. 1). Ecosystem ecology is rarely definitive; however, laws by which Man regulates his activities should be subject to change according to ecosystem reality. Many historically-developed modes of human activity make little sense ecologically. What we may call the ‘Marine Revolution’ follows the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions as a significant change in Man's relationship with his environment. Advanced technology for ocean research and development are becoming available, but cultural and legal frameworks for regulation have not matured. A major problem in the development of a marine tradition whereby Man will not destroy marine ecosystems lies in the application of ecological ‘laws’ to our activities at sea. The uses of the seas are for fisheries, minerals, and mining, for furthering military interests, and for recreation. Science and technology are advanced for all of these, while conservation attempts to integrate them wisely. Legal régimes for regulation stem mainly from the four Geneva Conventions which formalize a three-and-a-half-centuries-old history of marine law. These Conventions themselves emphasize that marine law needs modification along new lines. Debate intensifies over régimes of res nullius (belonging to no one) versus res communis (property of the community) for ocean exploitation. This paper concludes that exploitive ‘conquest’ can no longer serve as a guide for Man's use of the sea. An emphasis must be given to marine ecosystems and to the rôle of the marine ecologist in the oceanological debate. In the past, provincialism and tradition have stood in the way of international control of ocean-resource use. Should an over-riding consideration be given to ecology and to internationalism, the Marine Revolution will affect Man's future life far more beneficially than a mere evaluation of resources alone would indicate.

La Souveraineté Terrestre Canadienne en Arctique

This article discusses the politics of consolidating the territorial sovereignty of Canada’s Arctic regions. The writer first touches upon international norms and conventions surrounding marine law, and then analyses Canada’s own foreign policies in the Arctic.