Amphibious legal geographies: Toward land-sea regimes

Irus Braverman, Katrina Brown and Katrina Rønningen use video to argue that existing modes of law are a major contributor to ocean degradation. This challenges the oft-held assumption that law is the answer or response to oceanic “problems,” instead assessing how law might be part of those very problems. In their short film, Amphibious legal geographies: Toward land-sea regimes (with accompanying transcript), Braverman, Brown and Rønningen question the very basis of ocean law and its dependence on the land-water binary. Braverman, Brown and Rønningen opens space for thinking differently of global ocean attention at this moment. They provoke a deeply profound question as to whether “our” fundamental regimes of ocean law are defunct because of the ontological assumptions on which they rest.