by Bill Mansfield
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has been cited as one of the UN’s greatest achievements. It provided international checks and balances on the use of the oceans. For coastal nations such as New Zealand the benefits were huge – securing control of fisheries and other resources in exclusive economic zones.
Main image: The book cover of Mare liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius
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