Hope Springs Eternal for the U.S. to Finally Ratify the Law of the Sea Convention
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It has been widely reported that Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is considering bringing up the long-dormant Law of the Sea Convention ("Convention") for a vote in this Congress. Of course, the Senator has tried this before and was not able to muster the 2/3 vote required for ratification. Will this year be any different? (View PDF to read the rest of this article)
This article by Joan M. Bondareff, of counsel at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the September 2011 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.