Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI)

Program Chairs Prof. David D. Caron 445 Boalt Hall 510-642-7249 ddcaron@law.berkeley.edu Prof. Harry N. Scheiber 360 Boalt Hall 510-643-9788/643-3595 scheiber@uclink.berkeley.edu

An international consortium of scholars that has played a major part in studies of ocean law since the 1970s, the Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) was transferred to the Earl Warren Legal Institute (EWLI) in April 2002 and is administered by Professors Harry Scheiber and David Caron as co-chairs. LOSI has published a distinguished series of conference proceedings on a range of subjects dealing with ocean policy and the law of the sea with assistance from university, foundation, and governmental sponsors. This tradition will continue under the auspices of the Institute, and the first volume of the new Berkeley-based series, Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters , will be published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. The papers for this volume were presented at a conference held at Boalt Hall in 2002. A similar conference, international in scale, is being planned cooperatively with other universities and is scheduled for Spring 2005.

In addition, an invitational workshop-style conference on "Multilateralism and International Ocean-Resources Law," was held in Berkeley in February 2003. The conference was organized in part to recognize the 50th anniversary of the International North Pacific Fisheries Convention. This tripartite agreement involved Japan, Canada, and the United States in a pioneering multilateral effort at coordinated scientific management of the Northeast Pacific's marine fisheries. Its organization of multilateral science in service of management, and the mechanisms of tripartite cooperation that were instituted, served as a model for many later agreements globally. Its importance was even great in the sense that its negotiation and operational experience were crucial in shaping the subsequent course of debates that ended in the UN Law of the Sea talks and finally in the 1982 framework agreement, the UN LOS Convention. Proceedings from this conference are available in our publications section below.

At Berkeley, LOSI will build on a long tradition of studies in ocean law that began with Professor Stefan Riesenfeld's work in the late 1930s. For the last 20 years, research in this field has been supported largely by grants from the California Sea Grant Program and other sources obtained through a sister research center, UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society in its Ocean Law and Policy Program. Although direction of that program has been shifted to EWLI, the two research units will continue to coordinate support and research efforts in the ocean policy field.

Selected Publications
Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters, edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber, (2004). In this volume, leading scholars and jurists in ocean law provide perspectives on the past record of legal change together with analyses of a wide range of institutional and legal innovation that are needed to meet current challenges.

Multilateralism and International Ocean-Resources Law: Papers from the 2003 LOSI Conference
at the University of California, Berkeley, edited by Harry N. Scheiber with K athryn J. Mengerink (2004)

Inter-Allied Conflicts and Ocean Law, 1945-53: The Occupation Command's Revival of Japanese Whaling and Marine Fisheries, by Harry Scheiber, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (2001)

Law of the Sea: The Common Heritage and Emerging Challenges, edited by Harry N. Scheiber, Publications on Ocean Development, Volume 34, Kluwer Law International (2000)

Contact Information

Earl Warren Legal Institute
381 Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510-642-5125
Fax: 510-643-2698
Email: ewli@law.berkeley.edu

Administration:

Director
Harry N. Scheiber
Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History
360 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-643-9788/643-3595
Email: scheiber@uclink.berkeley.edu

Administrative Analyst
Karen Chin
381 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-642-5125
Email: karenc@law.berkeley.edu

Administrative Assistant
Toni Mendicino
359 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-642-7969
Email: mendicit@law.berkeley.edu

Research Assistant to Prof. Scheiber
Jordon Diamond
358 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-643-9788
Email: jdiamond@berkeley.edu

 

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