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Legal Geopolitics of the Ocean
Mat Coleman (Geography) and Kendra McSweeney (Geography)
Although the ocean is frequently understood as a legal wilderness where state authority comes undone, our programming will explore how states territorialize oceans as quasi-legal jurisdictions by exporting military, regulatory, logistics, customs, immigration, and law enforcement operations offshore, and by building extraterritorial maritime infrastructures such as islands, platforms, and naval bases.
