| Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters Contributor(s): Caron, David D. (Editor), Scheiber, Harry N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004140883 ISBN-13: 9789004140882 Publisher: Brill Nijhoff OUR PRICE: $282.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: In this volume, leading scholars and jurists in ocean law provide perspectives on the past record of legal change together with analyses of a wide range of institutional and legal innovation that are needed to meet current challenges. The topics that are addressed here include: policy process and legal innovation in marine fisheries management; institutional capacity and jurisdictional conflict in ocean-law adjudication; regionalism and multilateralism in their various aspects; the challenges posed by the sudden recent availability of technological access to underwater cultural heritage; compensation for war-related environmental damage; and the problems associated with access to marine genetic materials. "Bringing new law to ocean waters" --the quest to adjust the legal order of the oceans to changing realities, a quest that has produced both great achievements and grievous failures -- has constituted one of the major developments in international law in the last half century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Maritime - Law | International |
| Dewey: 341.45 |
| LCCN: 2005272582 |
| Series: Publications on Ocean Development |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.44" W x 9.52" (2.28 lbs) 497 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume, leading scholars and jurists in ocean law provide perspectives on the past record of legal change together with analyses of a wide range of institutional and legal innovation that are needed to meet current challenges. The topics that are addressed here include: policy process and legal innovation in marine fisheries management; institutional capacity and jurisdictional conflict in ocean-law adjudication; regionalism and multilateralism in their various aspects; the challenges posed by the sudden recent availability of technological access to underwater cultural heritage; compensation for war-related environmental damage; and the problems associated with access to marine genetic materials. "Bringing new law to ocean waters" --the quest to adjust the legal order of the oceans to changing realities, a quest that has produced both great achievements and grievous failures -- has constituted one of the major developments in international law in the last half century. |