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Is Seasteading The High Seas A Legal Possibility? Filling The Gaps In International Sovereignty Law And The Law Of The Seas, Ryan H. Fateh
Is Seasteading The High Seas A Legal Possibility? Filling The Gaps In International Sovereignty Law And The Law Of The Seas, Ryan H. Fateh
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Seasteading--homesteading of the modern era--is a desire to develop above-water settlements in international waters known as seasteads. Once a fleeting dream, seasteading has entered the realm of possibility with the technological advancements and financial contributions of The Seasteading Institute (TSI). TSI's ultimate goal is ambitious: to establish permanent seasteads as sovereign states recognized by the United States and eventually by other members of the United Nations. Because international law promulgated by the United Nations addresses only state actors and TSI is a nonstate actor, this Note argues that international law does not prohibit the seastead communities from merely existing in …