The Blue Commons: Combating Rentier Capitalism in the Sea

The global privatisation of the sea For most of human history, the sea has been seen as a commons. In the Justinian Codex of AD529-534 – regarded universally as the base of common law – four types of property were defined – private, state, nobody’s (res nullius) and commons (res communes). The sea was firmly […]

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