Recently added articles from Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law:
Arctic warming: environmental, human, and security implications.
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Arctic warming has myriad implications for the Arctic environment, residents, and nations. Although definitive predictions are difficult, without question the scope and rapidity of change will test the adaptive capacities of the Arctic environment as well as its ...
International security and international law in the Northwest Passage.
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Concern over the loss of sea ice has renewed discussions over the legal status of the Arctic and subarctic transcontinental maritime route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, referred to as the "Northwest Passage." Over the past thirty years, Canada has ...
Who controls the Northwest Passage?
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT From Martin Frobisher in 1576 to John Franklin in 1845, generations of European explorers searched for a navigable route through the Arctic islands to Asia. Their greatest challenge was sea-ice, which has almost always filled the straits, even in summer. Climate change, ...
Judicial and arbitral proceedings and the outer limits of the continental shelf.
Oct 01, 2009; ... This Article explores when international third-party dispute settlement forums may hear cases concerning the outer limits of a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from baselines. The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea articulated determinate rules for establishing those limits ...
The Arctic: an opportunity to cooperate and demonstrate statesmanship.
Oct 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The Article discusses in four distinct parts disputes relating to maritime boundaries in the Arctic; "gaps" in the legal regime in the Arctic; environmental and security concerns; and the administration of the Arctic. Regarding the first item, the Article ...