Navigational Freedom: The Most Critical Common Heritage

This keynote address was delivered at the Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea workshop hosted by the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College on May 17, 2017

Global Order, Low Intensity Conflict and a Strategy of Deterrence

It has taken mankind more than 20 centuries to achieve the fundamental insight embodied in the United Nations Charter that aggressive use of force is impermissible in international affairs and that every nation has a right of individual and collective defense against such aggressive use of force. This dual insight-which was the single most important advance in the history of conflict management-is the principal foundation of modern world order

Introduction: Next Steps toward a Law of the Sea in the Common Interest

This symposium in the San Diego Law Review will appear at an historic point in the development of oceans law. In May 1977, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) will reconvene for its sixth session. Despite a continuing impasse on deep-seabed mining which developed during the fourth and fifth sessions of the UNCLOS, the sixth session should begin in a climate more favorable to productive negotiations