Elva Escobar and Julian Barbiere, Environment to Discover: Marine Biodiversity “An Assessments” (35-43), (2011) Oceans: The New Frontier Alan B. Sielen, Devolution of the Seas,” (2013): 124-132 Foreign Affairs “The See-Through Sea.” June 7, 2016 The Economist, “The Part I: Governing the Week 3 Ocean Governance (I): The Emergence of CIL – This week explores the origins of the contemporary ocean management regime. International law of the sea first emerged when maritime practices became conventionalized and normalized, forming a loose body of international law.’ The writings of Northern European jurists ‘customary such as Hugo Grotius and John Selden were especially influential, and their impact on the evolution of the Law of the Sea will be a central theme of class discussion. The eventual dominant of European norms can be explained with reference to early modern circumnavigation, maritime trade, and prolonged naval dominance. Total pages: 122 Lincoln Paine. Birth of Global Trade” (pgs. 406-440), The Sea and Civilization: A “The Knopf, 2013 Maritime History of the World. Thomas Fulton, (pgs. 1-22), W. Blackwood, 1911 The Sovereignty of the Sea. “Introduction” Denise Russell, of the Seas” (pgs. 6-28), Who Rules the Waves? Piracy, Overfishing, “Freedom Pluto Press, 2010 and Mining the Oceans. Philip E. Steinberg, and Merchant Capitalism” (pgs. 68-109), The Social “Ocean-space Cambridge University Press, 2001 Construction of the Ocean. Week 4 - Ocean Governance (II): the Law of the Sea Treaty This week focuses on the emergence and key features of the Law of the Sea Treaty, was designed to manage the full range of ocean use activities. After eleven years of pain-staking negotiations, the United Nations Third Convention on the Law of the Sea produced a treaty, which is credited as being one of the most comprehensive and universal bodies of international law ever ratified. Class discussion will focus on the jurisdictional innovations in the Treaty, especially the Exclusive Economic Zone, and the influence that existing customary international law had on the negotiations. The reasons for and implications of US non-ratification will also be discussed. Total pages: 116
Elva Escobar and Julian Barbiere, “An Environment to Discover: Marine Biodiversity Assessments” (35-43), Oceans: The New Frontier (2011) Alan B. Sielen, “The Devolution of the Seas,” Foreign Affairs (2013): 124-132 “The See-Through Sea.” The Economist, June 7, 2016 Part I: Governing the Week 3 – Ocean Governance (I): The Emergence of CIL This week explores the origins of the contemporary ocean management regime. International law of the sea first emerged when maritime practices became conventionalized and normalized, forming a loose body of ‘customary international law.’ The writings of Northern European jurists such as Hugo Grotius and John Selden were especially influential, and their impact on the evolution of the Law of the Sea will be a central theme of class discussion. The eventual dominant of European norms can be explained with reference to early modern circumnavigation, maritime trade, and prolonged naval dominance. Total pages: 122 Lincoln Paine. “The Birth of Global Trade” (pgs. 406-440), The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World. Knopf, 2013 Thomas Fulton, “Introduction” (pgs. 1-22), The Sovereignty of the Sea. W. Blackwood, 1911 Denise Russell, “Freedom of the Seas” (pgs. 6-28), Who Rules the Waves? Piracy, Overfishing, and Mining the Oceans. Pluto Press, 2010 Philip E. Steinberg, “Ocean-space and Merchant Capitalism” (pgs. 68-109), The Social Construction of the Ocean. Cambridge University Press, 2001 Week 4 - Ocean Governance (II): the Law of the Sea Treaty This week focuses on the emergence and key features of the Law of the Sea Treaty, was designed to manage the full range of ocean use activities. After eleven years of pain-staking negotiations, the United Nations Third Convention on the Law of the Sea produced a treaty, which is credited as being one of the most comprehensive and universal bodies of international law ever ratified. Class discussion will focus on the jurisdictional innovations in the Treaty, especially the Exclusive Economic Zone, and the influence that existing customary international law had on the negotiations. The reasons for and implications of US non-ratification will also be discussed. Total pages: 116