Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters / / edited by David D. Caron, Harry N. Scheiber.

• Superior document: Publications on Ocean Development ; 47
• TeilnehmendeR: Caron, David D.,; Scheiber, Harry N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Publications on Ocean Development ; 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Notes: Papers from the third major conference of recent years at UC-Berkeley, since 2002 the headquarters of the United Nations Law of the Sea Institute.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280867116; 9786610867110; 1429432578; 904740629X; 1433706156
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by David D. Caron, Harry N. Scheiber.

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.