. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sorting out the legal issues As life in the coastal areas becomes more complex, so do the legal issues surrounding it. In the United States, a huge body of law has grown up around the ocean and the coast—a body of law that becomes in- creasingly important as the struggle for the control of limited resources intensifies. Dr. Thomas Schoenbaum, a faculty member of the UNC School of Law, is trying to help others interpret and understand this complex body of law. This sum- mer, with Sea Grant support, he is te
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Sorting out the legal issues As life in the coastal areas becomes more complex, so do the legal issues surrounding it. In the United States, a huge body of law has grown up around the ocean and the coast—a body of law that becomes in- creasingly important as the struggle for the control of limited resources intensifies. Dr. Thomas Schoenbaum, a faculty member of the UNC School of Law, is trying to help others interpret and understand this complex body of law. This sum- mer, with Sea Grant support, he is teaching the state's first ocean and coastal law policy course. The course is being offered in a five-week summer school session for law students and graduate students in marine sciences at the UNC School of Law. Course work is based on a two-volume text prepared by Schoenbaum and seven of his students and published by UNC Sea Grant. Schoenbaum believes that the texts will be helpful to scientists, policy makers and lawyers in other states. The course will cover ocean and coastal law of the United States. Schoenbaum believes that it will be useful to lawyers going into private practice in the coastal area as well as to the growing numbers of law graduates who enter government work. "We have a lot of coastal education programs, but there's no course in any of the universities in this state on marine policies or law. Everybody who works with the coastal area will have some contact with marine policy or law," he said. Course work covers seven major areas. Ocean law topics include the international law of the sea, fisheries management and marine mammal protec- tion, and laws concerning marine pollution control. Schoenbaum will also discuss laws governing non- living resources, especially those which control min- ing on the Outer Continental Shelf and the building of floating nuclear power plants. Under coastal law, students will study the public and private rights to coas
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