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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  • 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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