Critical Ocean Legalities

Critical Ocean Legalities aims to gather multiple critical theoretical approaches and methodologies, and scholarship that engages with oceans and law. Across a multiplicity of conceptual, theoretical, and temporal registers, the series aims to support and foster scholarship that moves beyond the articulation of doctrinal or even contextual engagements with the law of the sea; but rather complicates, problematizes and develops critiques that unsettles established doctrines, assumptions, categories, taxonomies and ideas in the area.

While focused on international law of the sea and transnational legal regimes, Critical Ocean Legalities encourages critical comparative studies, meta studies, the development and utilization of interdisciplinary methodologies and the contextual re-imagination of law through perspectival refractions, be that via geography, political philosophy, IR, anthropology, philosophy, but also history, art, science and technology studies, literature and beyond.