Boalt's Law of the Sea Institute Co-Chairs Conference in Korea on Ocean Disputes in Northeast Asia At the suggestion of the Korean government, Boalt Hall's Law of the Sea Institute, along with Inha University in Incheon, Korea, co-sponsored an international conference in Seoul on October 23-25. A large group of experts from around the world convened to discuss the territorial and maritime disputes between China, Korea and Japan in Northeast Asia. The conference was organized by Professors David Caron '83 and Harry Scheiber, Professor Jon van Dyke of the University of Hawaii, and Professor Seok-woo Lee of Inha. "There was a very frank discussion among the Chinese, Korean and Japanese participants, it was very positive and everything that Professor Scheiber and I could have hoped for," said Caron.
Following the conference, the participants visited Panmunjon in the Demilitarized Zone. Shown here are the Boalt participants in the conference (left to right): Sherry Broder '75, Cdr Glenn Sulmasy USCG '07 (LL.M.), Professor Richard McLaughlin'97 (JSD), Texas A&M; Professor David Caron '83; Professor Yann-Huei Song '00 (JSD), Academia Sinica, Taiwan; and Jennifer Jeffers '09.
