Archive for August, 2011
Honoring Shark Week
This comment takes no position on the killing of those cuddly animals we call sharks, but what better time, Discovery Channel’s Annual Shark Week, to highlight a basic tension in international law. One of the more difficult challenges of international law simply comes down to cultural perspectives sometimes. Trade provides some of the more fascinating struggles between advocacy groups and states but also states versus other states.
The article we highlight this week brings attention to the advocacy group Oceana’s attempt to end the trade in shark products by urging the United States to use its power under the Shark Conservation Act of 2010 to ban imports on shark products from China and Japan among others. You can read more about the dispute by clicking here.
In 2010, Oceana put out a report concerning the international trade in Shark Fins which you may read by clicking here.
