Japan, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Pacific Fisheries: A Perspective on the Origins of Modern Ocean Law, 1930-1953

I seek to establish here the degree to which multilateralism prevailed in the postwar era, or instead was overcome by unilateralist objectives and methods in pursuit of national interests. The empirical basis and special focus in much of my analysis is the discussion of Canada\u27s role in regard to the diplomacy of the Pacific fisheries and more generally in regard to the process of developing modern ocean law as reflected in Canadian-U.S.-Japanese-British relations

The 1953 International North Pacific Fisheries Convention: Half-Century Anniversary of a New Department in Ocean Law

In the broadest historical perspective, the Convention laid the groundwork for the modern-day norm of multi-lateralist style and structure for sustainable management of ocean resources. It is fitting, then, that a conference bringing together experts on ocean law and policy from many countries would have gathered in 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley to consider the current-day initiatives in multilateralism and, at the same time, to recall their origins and precursors starting with the International North Pacific Fisheries Convention

Redesigning the Architecture of Federalism- An American Tradition: Modern Devolution Policies in Perspective

The last time a Republican Party majority in Washington referred to itself as radical, let alone revolutionary, as the congressional Republicans elected in 1994 are wont to do, was in the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Charles Sumner, one of the party\u27s ideological leaders in the causes of antislavery and civil rights in that critical era of the nation\u27s history, declared triumphantly in 1862: \u27This is a moment for changes. Our whole system is like molten wax, ready to receive an impression.\u27 With the Contract with America firmly in hand before the television cameras, those who have sought to craft today\u27s Republican-led revolution in government and public policy seem at times to believe that a similar receptivity to an impression prevails in the country. It is in the context of such insistent and sometimes ebullient faith that the country is ready to endorse a great transformation-what the Republican Governors Conference in 1994 termed a historic moment of opportunity-an occasion when the political climate makes possible fundamental change in the federal-state relationship -that the broad range of proposals for devolution of power to the states in so many vital areas of policy has been debated since 1994

Foreword

The Journal, in partnership with the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, is therefore proud to present a symposium on Multilateralism in International Ocean Resources Law. The authors represented in this symposium delivered papers last year at a conference organized by the Institute at the Boalt Hall School of Law, UC-Berkeley; and those papers have been extensively revised for publication in this issue