Law of the Sea Institute
Program Directors
David D. Caron
510-642-7249
ddcaron@law.berkeley.edu
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Harry N. Scheiber
510-643-9788
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. LOSI was previously based at the University of Hawaii and the University of Miami before being transferred to UC Berkeley in 2002. It is now a program of the Institute for Legal Research. 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 with assistance from university, foundation, and governmental sponsors, such as the California Sea Grant Program, the UC Marine Council, the Pacific Rim Research Program, and the Ford Foundation. In addition, there has been the coordination of activities and varying types of support from other institutions, including the University of Washington and the Fridtjof 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, held in Berkeley and Seoul.
Since its inception, LOSI has 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 at Berkeley with Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff); "Multilateralism and International Ocean-Resources Law," published as a symposium in the San Diego International Law Journal; Maritime Boundary Disputes, Settlement Processes, and the Law of the Sea, edited by Seoung-Yong Hong and Jon Van Dyke (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff); and The Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks, edited by David Caron and Harry Scheiber (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff).
Contact information
Law of the Sea Institute
381 Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510-642-5125
Fax: 510-643-2698
Email: losi@law.berkeley.edu