Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters: 47 (Publications On Ocean Development) - Tapa dura

Altogether, Caron and Scheiber's Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters contributes significantly to our understanding of the legal regime on maritime spaces and its interrelation with new scientific findings, geographical developments, and changes in perception. The volume should be of interest not merely to scholars, but to lawyers and politicians involved in progressively developing the legal regime on maritime spaces at all levels.
Rüdiger Wolfrum in American Journal of International Law, 2006.

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.