LAW AND GLOBAL COMMONS

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Week 1 - Introduction and Context (Matthew Craven - MC) [11th January]

Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin)

Vogler, The Global Commons (2000), TC, 1, 2, 7, 9.pdf

Caffentzis - The future of the commons

conserving the worlds resources (Pahuja)

Nonini, Introduction to the global idea of the commons

Buck, The Global Commons (1998), TC, 1, 2, 7, pp. 45-46, 55, 75-76, 84, 120, 137-139, 143, 154.pdf

Ostrom, Governing the Commons (1990), TC, 1, 2, pp 214-216.pdf

Lessig, The Future of Ideas (2001), TC, 2.pdf

Goldman (ed), Privitizing Nature (1998), TC, Intro, 1, 6, 8.pdf

Global Commons Introduction

Week 2 - Theoretical Approaches: Sovereignty, Common Heritage, Tragedy of the Commons and Tragedy of the Enclosures [18 January]

1959-Antarctic-treaty

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985)

Montreal Protocol (text)

Common Areas, Common Heritage and Common Concern (Brunee)

Global Commons (Ranganathan)

Common Concern of Humankind (Soltau)

Antarctic Regime (Oxman)

Antarctic Regime 61-91 (Rothwell)

Madrid Protocol (Francioni)

Humanitarian Limits - Common Concern and Common Heritage

Law and Global Commons week 2

Week 3 - historical perspectives (MC) [25 January]

Mare Liberum (Grotius)

property territory and colonialism an international legal history of enclosure

Mercantile Capitalism (Koskenniemi)

Enclosure and its Critics (Marks)

Butler, The commons concept

Thomson, Whigs and Hunters (1975), p. 21-24, 27-54, 219-269.pdf

Freitas v Grotius (Alexandrowicz)

Grotius-Selden (Potter)

The Politics of Fisheries (Anand)

Commoners (Neeson)

lines in the ocean (Jones)

Chandra-The-Moral-Economy-of-Cosmopolitan-Commons

Second Enclosure Movement (Boyle)

LGC History

Week 4 - Outer space: Extraterrestrial International Law (MC) [1 February]

sovereignty and outer space (weaver)

Laws Empire and the Final Frontier Legalizing the Future in the

GA Resn 1962 (1963)

Outer Space Treaty (1967)

Rescue Agreement (1968)

Liability Convention (1971)

Registration Convention (1974)

Moon Agreement (1979)

Benefits Declaration (1997)

Remote Sensing Principles (1986)

Outer Space Law

Week 5 - Outer space 2: The Commodification of the Cosmos (MC) [8th February]

Space is the Only Way to Go (Storr)

Christy Collis - GEO and legal geography

outer space resources (pershing)

space resources (Durrani)

rare earth frontiers (klinger)

Other Spaces (Craven)

Outer Space Law 2

Week 8 - The high seas as a commons [8 March]

High Seas

Week 9 - Deep Seabed Mining and Critical Approaches [15 March]

Maritime Legal Black Holes

Mermaids and Utopias the High Seas as Feminist Space

E. Jones, Posthuman international law and the rights of nature

Feminism and the Law of the Sea a Preliminary Inquiry

Anthropocene-Capitalocene-Cthulocene FINAL

The Ocean Returns

The Deep Seabed

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