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In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on "oceans as method"—a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea—Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.

This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. Including original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of regulation and historical biography. Including recent scholarship on the legacy of issues such as consent, sovereignty and skilled/unskilled labour distinctions from the history of indentured labour migrations, this volume brings together a range of historical changes that can only be understood by studying South Asian migrants within a globalized world system. Centering south Asian migrations as a site of analysis in global history, the contributors offer a lens into the ongoing regulation of labourers after the abolition of slavery that intersect with histories in the Global North and Global South. The use of historical biography showcases experiences from below, and showcases a world history outside empire and nation.

Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy addresses the reasons for this decline and explains the laws protecting the marine environment in a clear and concise manner. The authors have real-world experience with their topics, and discuss how the law works in practice rather than merely in theory. This is an excellent resource for the practitioner, government official, or scholar in their efforts to transition to an ecosystem-based management approach.

International Ocean Law is an introductory volume for a law school course that focuses on international law of the sea. Authors McDorman, Bolla, Johnston, and Duff bring together the important provisions of international treaties, international court and arbitration cases, and selected government documents (including statutes) and interlace them with commentary and excerpts.The concentration on commentaries and textual material rather than cases, statutes, and treaty provisions (although some of these are present) is particularly appropriate for an introductory course. The volume deals with the building blocks of international ocean law. For students, this means that it covers the fundamental aspects of the law of the sea while alerting them to complex related issues that are also part of understanding international ocean law. This volume is equally usable by novice and experienced professors of Ocean Law.

It also extends the analysis to the international stage, arguing that international institutions, such as the OECD, the UN, the IMF and the World Bank, have for decades used soft law as a means, indeed their only means, of regulating international agreements. Comparisons between the two arenas are then drawn and indicate very different roles for soft law." "This book will appeal to scholars of European law and politics as well as those involved with or interested in the policy implications of this mode of governance."--Jacket.

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