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Full-Text Articles in Environmental Law
Saving Salvage: Avoiding Misguided Changes To Salvage And Finds Law, Christopher Z. Bordelon
Saving Salvage: Avoiding Misguided Changes To Salvage And Finds Law, Christopher Z. Bordelon
San Diego International Law Journal
In recent years, as technology permitting previously impossible underwater salvage operations has become available, ancient principles of the laws of salvage and of finds as applied to sunken ships have come under attack. Those who would limit or preclude the application of salvage and finds principles and the conduct of salvage operations in the context of shipwrecks have advocated changes in both the common law of admiralty and in related statutory law. They have also supported an international convention on the subject. Academic commentary favoring heightened preservation praises these developments and promotes further initiatives to protect the "underwater cultural heritage" …
Sand Mining In Baja And Alta California, Harold Magistrale
Sand Mining In Baja And Alta California, Harold Magistrale
San Diego International Law Journal
This Comment will examine some geologic, environmental, and legal aspects of the international sand trade. Looking at the state of sand mining in both countries will demonstrate that the United States and Mexico have parallel regulatory structures and similar environmental concerns and will show how municipal and state officials in Baja California are ale to piggyback their economic concerns onto environmental regulations. This Comment will also examine the sand trade issue for lessons applicable to cross border trade and suggest a certification mechanism that would allow continued sand exports while preserving environmental safeguards.