Time Schedule:
Craig H. Allen
SMA 506
Seattle Campus
Offered: jointly with LAW B 561.
Class description
This course explores the international legal regime governing uses of the ocean environment. Coverage includes an introduction to international law and legal process, maritime baselines and boundaries, vessel navigation rights and obligations on the high seas and in coastal waters, conservation and management of living and non-living resources, vessel source pollution and ocean dumping regimes, rights and obligations of marine scientific researchers and international dispute resolution procedures. Emphasis will be on the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and customary international law.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
This class combines lectures by the instructor with in-class analysis and discussion of problems by students using the “expert” method.
Recommended preparation
Open to law students, School of Marine Affairs graduate students and to other graduate students by permission of the instructor.
Class assignments and grading
Final grades will be based on analysis of selected problems and a final research paper. There will be no final examination.
