More than twenty years ago, the US helped draft an international treaty to govern how disputes related to the open oceans should be resolved. But America never signed on. We find out why a strange group of bedfellows -- including the Bush administration, environmental groups, the Navy, and oil companies -- say the time has come for America to join 154 other nations and ratify The Law of the Seas Conventions.
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Who Owns The Ocean?
Listen Monday, Aug. 6, 2007 at 1:23 p.m. in Economy, PoliticsGuests
John Norton Moore
Walter L. Brown Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Director, Center for Oceans Law and Policy
Jeremy Rabkin
Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Captain Patrick Neher
Director of International Law for the U.S. Navy
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