Law of the Sea Institute
Program Directors
David D. Caron
445 Boalt Hall
510-642-7249
ddcaron@law.berkeley.edu
Harry N. Scheiber
360 Boalt Hall
510-643-9788/643-3595
hscheiber@law.berkeley.edu
The Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) is an international consortium of scholars that has played a major part in studies of ocean law since the 1970s, and was transferred to UC Berkeley in 2002. It is now a program of the Institute for Legal Research, and is administered by Professors Harry Scheiber and David Caron as Co-Directors.
At Berkeley, LOSI has built on a long tradition of studies in ocean law that began with Professor Stefan Riesenfeld's work in the late 1930s. Research in this field at Berkeley has been supported largely by grants from the California Sea Grant program, Berkeley Law's Office of Dean, the UC Marine Council, and UCOP's Pacific Rim Research Program. In addition, there has been the coordination of activities and varying types of support from other institutions, including the University of Washington and the Nansen Institute (Norway). From 2006-2008, LOSI joined with Inha University (Korea) to co-sponsor and co-organize a three-year series of major international conferences on ocean law and policy.
Prior to being reorganized and based on the Berkeley campus, LOSI published a distinguished series of conference proceedings and books on a range of subjects dealing with ocean policy and the law of the sea. This tradition has continued under the auspices of the Institute with the first two volumes of the new Berkeley-based series: Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters, published by Martinus Nijhoff/Brill; and "Multilateralism and International Ocean-Resources Law," published as a symposium in the San Diego International Law Journal. The most recent publication, Maritime Boundary Disputes, Settlement Processes, and the Law of the Sea (edited by Seoung-Yong Hong and Jon M. Van Dyke, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill), draws on papers from the 2006 Seoul conference. In late 2009, Brill is also expected to issue Oceans in the Nuclear Age, a book edited by David Caron and Harry Scheiber, and which will feature papers from the LOSI conference on this theme held at UC Berkeley in 2006.
Contact Information
Law of the Sea Institute381 Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510-642-5125
Fax: 510-643-2698
Email: losi@law.berkeley.edu