Issues in Legal Scholarship

Symposium: Frontier Issues in Ocean Law: Marine Resources, Maritime Boundaries, and the Law of the Sea

Inaugurated December 2008

Introduction

It is especially fitting that the papers in this symposium should appear in 2008, marking the half-century anniversary of the UN Geneva Conventions on the law of the sea-a set of agreements on ocean uses and boundaries that represented a breakthrough in what had become a vexed and almost incoherent legal order of the oceans. The principles for drawing of boundaries at sea were of essential importance to the work done by the delegates at Geneva in 1958. That work has continued in the decades since those first attempts, in the 1958 Conventions, were made to address the challenge of creating coherence and establishing a viable new doctrinal basis for rule of law in ocean activities.

The papers in this symposium address some of the most urgent issues in contention today, fifty years after those first major international agreements that came out of the deliberations in Geneva. Papers will be added throughout 2009. To stay notified, please sign up for email alerts by entering your e-mail address in the right-hand sidebar.

Symposium editors:

Harry N. Scheiber, University of California, Berkeley
Seokwoo Lee, Inha University