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Modalities For Advancing Cross-Sectoral Cooperation In Managing Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Kristina Gjerde, Jeff Ardron, Sarah Gotheil, Quentin Hanich, Francois Simard, Robin Warner, Patricio Bernal, Serge Garcia, Jihyun Lee, Michael Lodge, Imen Meliane, Jake Rice, Jessica Sanders Dec 2012

Modalities For Advancing Cross-Sectoral Cooperation In Managing Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Kristina Gjerde, Jeff Ardron, Sarah Gotheil, Quentin Hanich, Francois Simard, Robin Warner, Patricio Bernal, Serge Garcia, Jihyun Lee, Michael Lodge, Imen Meliane, Jake Rice, Jessica Sanders

Robin Warner

[extract] Introduction 1. This report provides information and advice to the Secretariats and Member States of Regional Seas Conventions & Action Plans (RSCAPs) on modalities for advancing crosssectoral cooperation to progress internationally agreed conservation and sustainable use goals in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction.


Jurisdiction And Nation-Building: Tall Tales In Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand, Nan Seuffert Dec 2012

Jurisdiction And Nation-Building: Tall Tales In Nineteenth-Century Aotearoa/New Zealand, Nan Seuffert

Professor Nan Seuffert

Que.stions of jurisdiction involve the determination of the boundaries of the law. Notions of modern territorial jurisdiction emerged with the development of the modern natioin-state as the bounded territory in which a particular set of laws applIed. These modern notions of both nation-state and jurisdiction facilitated colonisation by determining the territorial boundaries in which colonial law applied, by determing the national space to other nations, and by producing difference within national and jurisdictional boundaries. The production of internal difference, the creation of differences between distinct groupings through the law's jurisdictional speech, is arguably the most important work that jurisdiction performs …


A Constitutional Theory Of Habeas Power, Lee B. Kovarsky Feb 2012

A Constitutional Theory Of Habeas Power, Lee B. Kovarsky

Lee Kovarsky

Modern habeas corpus law generally favors an idiom of individual rights, but the Great Writ’s central feature is judicial power. Throughout the seventeenth-century English Civil Wars, the Glorious Revolution, and the war in the American colonies, the habeas writ was a means by which judges consolidated authority over the question of what counted as “lawful” custody. Of course, the American Framers did not simply copy the English writ—they embedded it in a Constitutional system of separated powers and dual sovereignty. “A Constitutional Theory of Habeas Power” is an inquiry into the newly-minted principle that the federal Constitution guarantees some quantum …


Intellectual Property And Private International Law – Swedish Perspectives, Ulf Maunsbach Dec 2011

Intellectual Property And Private International Law – Swedish Perspectives, Ulf Maunsbach

Ulf Maunsbach

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