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Sub-Seabed Burial Of Nuclear Waste: If The Disposal Method Could Succeed Technically, Could It Also Succeed Legally?, Amal Bala Boston College Law School

Sub-Seabed Burial Of Nuclear Waste: If The Disposal Method Could Succeed Technically, Could It Also Succeed Legally?, Amal Bala

Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review

Nuclear power is a relatively familiar method of generating electricity in the United States, but the process remains controversial because of high-level radioactive waste. Conventional nuclear reactors use uranium fuel to sustain nuclear fission, but eventually such fuel becomes spent and requires storage and disposal because of its dangerous radioactive properties. The United States produces a large amount of nuclear waste every year but has struggled to develop a long-term disposal strategy. America favors land-based disposal methods and is not giving serious consideration to alternative methods, including sub-seabed burial. This Note discusses preliminary research on sub-seabed burial of nuclear waste ...

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Theory In Search Of Practice: The Right Of Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea, Kissi Agyebeng Cornell Law Library

Theory In Search Of Practice: The Right Of Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea, Kissi Agyebeng

Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers

The evolution of the law of the sea has been shaped largely by two notions, namely, freedom of navigation on the one hand, and restricted access on the other hand. The interaction between these two opposing notions has led to the acceptance of two compromise concepts, namely, the territorial sea and the right of innocent passage. These concepts have now been codified in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. This paper examines the right of innocent passage in the territorial sea under the Law of the Sea Convention regime as matched against contemporary state practice ...

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Ethiopia's Sovereign Right Of Access To The Sea Under International Law, Abebe T. Kahsay University of Georgia School of Law

Ethiopia's Sovereign Right Of Access To The Sea Under International Law, Abebe T. Kahsay

LLM Theses and Essays

Since Eritrea’s secession from Ethiopia there has been continuous opposition by intellectuals and the opposition to the government’s policy of making Ethiopia a landlocked country. Some totally reject the secession, while others accept the independence as a "fait accompli" and voice concern over the lack of an outlet to the sea, and still others acknowledge the right of self-determination and secession of Eritrea but denounce the inconsistency of the application of the Transitional Charter regarding the Red Sea Afar and the Algiers Agreement for denying Ethiopia its legitimate right to access to the sea and allege that the ...

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Territorial And Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua And Honduras In The Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua V. Honduras), Coalter G. Lathrop Duke Law

Territorial And Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua And Honduras In The Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua V. Honduras), Coalter G. Lathrop

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Report on Nicaragua v. Honduras, decided October 8, 2007 before the International Court of Justice.

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Continental Shelf Delimitation Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Approaches Taken By Coastal States Before The Commission On The Limits Of The Continental Shelf, Coalter G. Lathrop Duke Law

Continental Shelf Delimitation Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Approaches Taken By Coastal States Before The Commission On The Limits Of The Continental Shelf, Coalter G. Lathrop

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Sovereignty Over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), Coalter G. Lathrop Duke Law

Sovereignty Over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), Coalter G. Lathrop

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Report on Malaysia/Singapore, decided May 23, 2008 before the International Court of Justice

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Piracy Laws And The Effective Prosecution Of Pirates, Diana Chang Boston College Law School

Piracy Laws And The Effective Prosecution Of Pirates, Diana Chang

Boston College International and Comparative Law Review

This Note analyzes the current international legal framework for the punishment and prosecution of maritime piracy. Piracy is an international problem that disrupts global maritime trade and endangers the safety and security of crewmen and ship owners. Although it is a well-recognized principle that each state has universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates, the conflicting international definitions of piracy and the preponderance of attacks near states that lack resources to effectively prosecute pirates create a gap in enforcement within the international legal framework. This Note proposes that cooperating states should establish regional international piracy tribunals that can apply an appropriate, uniform ...

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Signal-Book For The Ships Of War, Henry Edles University of Rhode Island

Signal-Book For The Ships Of War, Henry Edles

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United States Coastwise Trading Restrictions: A Comparison Of Recent Customs Service Rulings With The Legislative Purpose Of The Jones Act And The Demands Of A Global Economy, Robert L. McGeorge Northwestern University School of Law

United States Coastwise Trading Restrictions: A Comparison Of Recent Customs Service Rulings With The Legislative Purpose Of The Jones Act And The Demands Of A Global Economy, Robert L. Mcgeorge

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Fierce policy disputes are inevitable whenever two basic, widely-accepted principles intersect in a situation where one must prevail and the other give way. In the maritime field, these disputes occur whenever a nation-state is forced to choose between promoting free and open trade in maritime services or protecting its domestic merchant marine. The clash of these policies has generated vigorous debates in the United States on a wide variety of maritime issues (e.g., cargo preference requirements, operating and construction differential subsidies, vessel construction loan guarantee programs and whether to retaliate against foreign countries' attempts to reserve import and export ...

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Save Our Sharks: Using International Fisheries Law Within Regional Fisheries Management Organizations To Improve Shark Conservation, Stijn van Osch University of Michigan Law School

Save Our Sharks: Using International Fisheries Law Within Regional Fisheries Management Organizations To Improve Shark Conservation, Stijn Van Osch

Michigan Journal of International Law

Like many fish, sharks are facing unprecedented overfishing. They have been targeted both directly for their fins and caught accidentally (bycaught) in, for instance, tuna fisheries. This has led to collapsing stocks around the world. Overfishing has led to what has been termed a mass extinction among ocean species, and sharks are no exception-they are in fact especially vulnerable. As a result, many species of sharks are now listed on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This problem can only be tackled through coordinated, cooperative action by all states. This Note explores one avenue ...

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Contemporary Uses Of Force Against Terrorism: The United States Response To Achille Lauro-Questions Of Jurisdiction And Its Exercise, Jeffrey A. McCredie 2015 Montgomery County, PA

Contemporary Uses Of Force Against Terrorism: The United States Response To Achille Lauro-Questions Of Jurisdiction And Its Exercise, Jeffrey A. Mccredie

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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A Taxing Endeavor: Local Government Protection Of Our Nation's Coasts In The "Wake" Of Climate Change, Simone Savino 2015 Florida State University College of Law

A Taxing Endeavor: Local Government Protection Of Our Nation's Coasts In The "Wake" Of Climate Change, Simone Savino

Simone Savino

A storm is brewing, and not just in our nation’s coastal waters. The effects of climate change are becoming alarmingly apparent: sea levels are rising, storm surges are intensifying and ocean temperatures are warming at increasing speeds. Higher storm surges have led to increased flooding in coastal zones and nearby low-lying regions. The need for greater disaster preparedness in areas vulnerable to storm surges is evident, not just in the United States, but worldwide. As a direct result, coastal towns and cities have been left with the daunting task, and cost, of implementing littoral adaptation measures such as beach ...

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Further Steps In The Clarification Of The Soviet Position On The Innocent Passage Of Foreign Warships Through Its Territorial Waters, Erick Franckx 2015 Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Further Steps In The Clarification Of The Soviet Position On The Innocent Passage Of Foreign Warships Through Its Territorial Waters, Erick Franckx

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Deployment Of Geoengineering By The Private And Public Sector: Can The Risks Of Geoengineering Ever Be Effectively Regulated?, Daniela E. Lai 2015 SelectedWorks

Deployment Of Geoengineering By The Private And Public Sector: Can The Risks Of Geoengineering Ever Be Effectively Regulated?, Daniela E. Lai

Daniela E Lai

Geoengineering has been described as any large-scale environmental manipulation designed with the purpose of mitigating the effects of climate change without decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Currently there are no specific rules regulating geoengineering activities particularly if geoengineering is deployed in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This article argues that, in order to mitigate the risks of geoengineering, there needs to be effective regulation of its deployment both in international and domestic law. The risks of geoengineering can only be effectively regulated if there is international cooperation between all levels of governments and private individuals involved in the research and development ...

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Survey Of United States Jurisdiction Over High Seas Narcotics Trafficking, Jeffrey D. Stieb 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Survey Of United States Jurisdiction Over High Seas Narcotics Trafficking, Jeffrey D. Stieb

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Law Of The Sea - Deep Seabed Mining - United States Position In Light Of Recent Agreement And Exchange Of Notes With Five Countries Involved In Preparatory Commission Of United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea, Katherine Dixon 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Law Of The Sea - Deep Seabed Mining - United States Position In Light Of Recent Agreement And Exchange Of Notes With Five Countries Involved In Preparatory Commission Of United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea, Katherine Dixon

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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The Left-To-Die Boat: Review 2, Peter Mares 2014 Swinburne University, Inside Story

The Left-To-Die Boat: Review 2, Peter Mares

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In March 2011 an inflatable boat carrying 72 asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa set out from the coast of Libya hoping to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. As one Italian official commented, sailing from Libya towards Italy should have been ‘a bit like doing a slalom between military ships’. Yet as, out of fuel, supplies of food and water dwindled to nothing and the people on board began to get sick and die, the boat continued to drift and no help came. Eventually it floated all the way back to the Libyan coast. Of the 50 men, 20 women ...

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The Pacific War, Continued: Denationalizing International Law In The Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Dispute, Joseph Jackson Harris 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

The Pacific War, Continued: Denationalizing International Law In The Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Dispute, Joseph Jackson Harris

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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The Distant Island Problem: The Arbitration On The Delimitation Of The Maritime Zones Around The French Collectivite Teritoriale Of Saint-Pierre-And-Miquelon, Merritt R. Blakeslee 2014 Steptoe & Johnson

The Distant Island Problem: The Arbitration On The Delimitation Of The Maritime Zones Around The French Collectivite Teritoriale Of Saint-Pierre-And-Miquelon, Merritt R. Blakeslee

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Carriage Of Hazardous Cargoes By Sea - The Hns Convention, Peter Wetterstein 2014 Abo Akedemi University, Finland

Carriage Of Hazardous Cargoes By Sea - The Hns Convention, Peter Wetterstein

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Port State Control: Strong Medicine To Cure A Sick Industry, John Hare 2014 University of Cape Town

Port State Control: Strong Medicine To Cure A Sick Industry, John Hare

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Some Reflections Over The Brussels Convention Of 1952 Relating To Arrest Of Sea-Going Vessels And Its Amending Process, Jose M. Alcantara 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Some Reflections Over The Brussels Convention Of 1952 Relating To Arrest Of Sea-Going Vessels And Its Amending Process, Jose M. Alcantara

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Exclusivity Of The Warsaw Convention's Cause Of Action: The U.S. Supreme Court Removes Some Of The Expansive Views Foundations In Zicherman V. Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., Brian S. Tatum 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Exclusivity Of The Warsaw Convention's Cause Of Action: The U.S. Supreme Court Removes Some Of The Expansive Views Foundations In Zicherman V. Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd., Brian S. Tatum

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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The Future Of Whaling: Should The International Whaling Commission Create A Broadened Cultural Exemption To The Whaling Moratorium For Iceland?, Ramsey Henderson 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

The Future Of Whaling: Should The International Whaling Commission Create A Broadened Cultural Exemption To The Whaling Moratorium For Iceland?, Ramsey Henderson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Maritime Boundaries In The Baltic Sea: Post-1991 Developments, Erik Franckx 2014 Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Maritime Boundaries In The Baltic Sea: Post-1991 Developments, Erik Franckx

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Applying The Third Un Convention On The Law Of The Sea To Living Marine Resources: Comparing The Approaches Of The United States And South Africa To Highly Migratory Species Management, Erica Wright 2014 University of Georgia School of Law

Applying The Third Un Convention On The Law Of The Sea To Living Marine Resources: Comparing The Approaches Of The United States And South Africa To Highly Migratory Species Management, Erica Wright

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Challenges To The Territorial Integrity Of Guyana: A Legal Analysis, Thomas W. Donovan 2014 American University in Cairo

Challenges To The Territorial Integrity Of Guyana: A Legal Analysis, Thomas W. Donovan

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Comment On The Guyana-Suriname Boundary Dispute, Honourable Doodnauth Singh 2014 Republic of Guyana, Attorney General

Comment On The Guyana-Suriname Boundary Dispute, Honourable Doodnauth Singh

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Fear God And Dread Nought: Naval Arms Control And Counterfactual Diplomacy Before The Great War, James Kraska 2014 U.S. Navy

Fear God And Dread Nought: Naval Arms Control And Counterfactual Diplomacy Before The Great War, James Kraska

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Fishing Moratoria And Securing Turfs: Creating Opportunities For Future Marine Resource Abundance In The Face Of Scarcity In Western Africa, Anastasia Telesetsky 2014 University of Idaho College of Law

Fishing Moratoria And Securing Turfs: Creating Opportunities For Future Marine Resource Abundance In The Face Of Scarcity In Western Africa, Anastasia Telesetsky

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Coalter Lathrop Duke Law

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