Parting the Waves: Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction and the Division of Ocean Space
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 decades, and thus the delimitation of maritime boundaries.
Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Law
1. The evolution of international law on underwater cultural heritage 2. Defining underwater cultural heritage 3. Ownership and other interests in underwater cultural heritage 4. Sunken state vessels and aircraft 5. Application of salvage law and the law of finds 6. Commercial exploitation of underwater cultural heritage 7. Rights, jurisdiction and duties under general international law 8. UNESCO Convention 2001: jurisdictional mechanisms 9. UNESCO Convention 2001: implementation issues 10. UNESCO Convention 2001: further matters Final reflections.
Continents of Liberty: Emerson and Gerald Vizenor’s Chair of Tears
Ralph Waldo Emerson protested what came to be known as the Trail of Tears in a public letter to President Martin Van Buren in 1838. Th e Cherokee Nation, he argued, had been cheated by a “sham treaty” (Emerson, “Letter” 50), the will of the people ignored, and a false acquiescence to removal written into law. In making a passionate appeal to the highest “chair” of the land, Emerson underscored the great political and moral stakes involved: