Oceans Resources
The final frontier: who owns the oceans and their hidden treasures?
12/04/2018 | Post by adminadmin
12/04/2018 | Post by adminadmin
From Thailand to Alaska, the battle to tap ever-dwindling resources from minerals to fish is spurring new conflicts over who has the right to the treasures of the deep seas. Reuters, London. This question posits the time memorial enigma of mare libre, mare clausum. Should the oceans be free of access or regulated? The answer […]
Parting the Waves: Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction and the Division of Ocean Space
08/01/2018 | Post by adminadmin
08/01/2018 | Post by adminadmin
PARTING THE WAVES: CLAIMS TO MARITIME JURISDICTION AND THE DIVISION OF OCEAN SPACE Dr. Clive Schofield* This article casts aside traditional obsessions and examines the development and present state of coastal State claims to maritime jurisdiction, the overlapping claims to maritime space that have inevitably resulted from the significant extension of maritime claims in recent […]