Oceans

Treaties are a critical means for achieving collective action, but so is customary law, a universal, elusive, and—as I show in the first paper below— important institution.

Articles

“Property Rights to the World’s (Linear) Ocean Fisheries in Customary International Law,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11(3): 689-718, 2024.

"The Global Commons of Ocean Fisheries" in Human Development Report 2023/2024, Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World, New York: United Nations Development Programme, 84-88, 2024.

“Enforcing Access Restrictions to Fishery Zones,” Nature Sustainability, 2: 905-906, 2019.

with B. Hallman, R.P. Clarke, J. Joseph, and D. Squires, “Limited Access in Transnational Tuna Fisheries“ in R. Allen, J. Joseph, and D. Squires (eds.), Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries, Ames, IA: Wiley-Blackwell,.pp. 195-214, 2010.