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Law of the Sea Conference |
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March 22-24, 2007 |
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Photos from the March 22-24, 2007 Law of the Sea conference held at HRI |
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Together with the
Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) organization,
the Harte Research Institute hosted an invitational
workshop-style conference called "Law of the Sea in the Gulf
of Mexico and Caribbean: Unresolved Issues and Challenges" held March 22-24, 2007, at HRI's facilities in Corpus Christi,
Texas.
LOSI is an international consortium of scholars that
 has played a
major part in the development of ocean law since the early 1970s.
Headquartered at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of
California at Berkeley, LOSI holds international conferences on
selected ocean law and policy topics.
Dr. Richard McLaughlin, one of the three endowed chairs at the
HRI and a leading figure in the international ocean law community,
will be heading up this year's conference. McLaughlin is well suited to run
such an event, as his main focus of research for the past 20 years
has been coastal and marine policy and law. He is on LOSI's board of
advisors and has attended several of their conferences in recent
years. Last year he made a presentation at the
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LOSI conference in
Seoul, South Korea.
The main goal for the conferences is to understand and assist in
the progressive development of international law of the sea.
Both the Law of the Sea Institute organization and its
annual conventions are a result of a UN Treaty called the
International Law of the Sea Convention which was finalized in 1982.
The treaty had a profound effect on McLaughlin, who was
just starting out in law school when the treaty was finalized. "It
is the foundation of how we order our ocean areas. Everything that
occurs in the world's oceans is in someway impacted by the Law of
the Sea Treaty."
What is law of the sea? All of the laws relating to economic
activities and environmental protection of the world's oceans.
The conference was comprised of approximately 40 invited
panel participants including: judges from the International Law of
the Sea Tribunal, leading scholars from U.S. and international
universities, government officials from several nations,
representatives from leading NGOs, and leaders from the U.S. and
Mexican energy industry.
For more information, please contact Dr McLaughlin at (361) 825-2010
or visit the HRI's
Law of the Sea Institute Conference 2007 website.
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