Part 1

Conduct research within the APUS library and through high quality academic resources available online to critically think through the following questions:

• What are the goals of maritime law?
  • How does the concept of jurisdiction relate to these goals?
• What distinguishes maritime law from other areas of law?
  • Are there any subdivisions within maritime law? If so, what are they, and how are they distinguished from each other?
• What are some of the principle terms that you have learned concerning maritime law so far?
  • How has that vocabulary, and the concepts that it represents, changed over the years (if at all)?
• With what other academic (non-legal) areas are related to maritime law? Why is understanding its relationship to these other areas relevant to how maritime law is practiced: in the past, now, and in the foreseeable future?
• Explain important aspects of U.S policy concerning maritime law?
  • Why are they significant?

Part 2

Now, let's zero in more closely on concepts related to maritime security. This week's reading discusses the general goals of maritime security law. Choose one of the goals and explain the U.S policy concerning this goal.