Assembling scholars from distant disciplines and orientations, this book inaugurates a new subfield of critical marine legal studies.

Irus Braverman is Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Her books include Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Nature (2012), and Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink (2018) as well as the coedited volume Blue Legalities: The Laws and Life of the Sea (2020). Braverman's monograph, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel, is forthcoming.

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes

Irus Braverman

Chapter 1

The Vexed Liminality of Hydrothermal Vents: An Opportunity to Unmake the Law of the Sea

Surabhi Ranganathan

Chapter 2

Commodifying the Oceans: The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases Revisited

Henry Jones

Chapter 3

Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean

Susan Reid

Chapter 4

Genetic Freedom of the Seas in the Age of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Irus Braverman

Chapter 5

Oceanic Heterolegalities? Ocean Commons and the Heterotopias of Sovereign Legality

Vito De Lucia

Chapter 6

Mining the Seas: Speculative Fictions and Futures

Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Chapter 7

Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice

Philip Steinberg, Greta Ferloni, Claudio Aporta, Gavin Bridge, Aldo Chircop, Kate Coddington, Stuart Elden, Stephanie C. Kane, Timo Koivurova, Jessica Shadian, and Anna Stammler-Gossmann

Chapter 8

UNCLOS as a Geopolitical Chokepoint: Locked Down, Locked In, Locked Out

Elspeth Probyn

Chapter 9

From Extended Urbanization to Ocean Gentrification: Miami's River Port and the Precarious Geographies of Haitian Shipping

Jeffrey S. Kahn

Chapter 10

Miles and Norms in the Fishery of Marseille: On the Interface between Social Norms and Legal Rules

Florian Grisel

Chapter 11

Divided Environments: Scalar Challenges in Sweden's Marine and Coastal Water Planning

Aron Westholm

Chapter 12

Good Human-Turtle Relationships in Indonesia: Exploring Intersecting Legalities in Sea Turtle Conservation

Annet Pauwelussen & Shannon Switzer Swanson

Afterword

We Are All Complicit: Performing Law through Wavewriting

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Index