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Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7076124 ↗
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The Ocean and Coastal Law Journal is a biannual legal journal at the University of Maine School of Law. It covers legal issues related to domestic and international use of the sea and seashores. The journal is edited by second and third-year students. It was established in 1994 and is affiliated with the Center for Oceans & Coastal Law at Maine Law.

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Members are chosen by class rank and an annual writing contest. Second year (or third-year students who did not join their second year) are members of the staff and third-year students (with one year of experience) are members of the Board of Editors.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ocean and Coastal Law Journal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.