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The Corfu Channel case is one of the most important cases in maritime law because it helped shape the concept of free passage.
Part 1
Conduct research within the APUS library and through high quality academic resources available online to support your discussion of the following:
Explain the evolution of the term "free passage" and how the case changed it.
How do maritime jurisdictional concepts relate to free passage?
In particular, what do the terms "baseline" and "territorial waters" mean? How are they measured, and why are they important, especially to flag states and coastal states?
What are some other maritime law-related words that you learned this week?
How have those particular words, and the concepts that they represents, changed over the years (if at all)?
What did you notice about the use of tools, technologies and methods used during the legal investigation of the incident and the trial before the International Court of Justice?
Compare and contrast them with what you know about their counterparts in the U.S. justice system.
Did you notice the influence of any other non-legal fields upon this investigation and/or trial?
What were they and what effect did they have, if any?
How many different perspectives were apparent (either as parties or otherwise) in this case?
What were they?
What insights were learned from or about each of them?
Identify specific U.S. statutes, regulations, or policies that evolved from the Corfu Channel case.
How and why were such changes made? Do they relate to foreign ships within U.S. waters or U.S. ships transiting through foreign waters, or both? Provide an illustrative example.
How might maritime law be different today if Albania had fully won the Corfu Channel dispute? Why do you think so?
Apply your idea of how maritime law might be different to a recent (within past five years) maritime dispute. What larger implications could have resulted if your alternative reality were actually true?
Part 2
How did the acts of researching and analyzing the influences of both legal and non-legal fields help you to better understand this week's topic?
Was there any specific part of this background kind of work that was particularly enlightening, or difficult, for you? What was it, and why?
What did you learn about persisting through to expand knowledge within that particular research or analysis task?
Now that you have done it, do you think that this particular research or analysis task is best done alone or as a collaborative effort? Why? If you were tasked to do something similar for a real world event occurring in real time, how would you like to approach it?
Do you think that this kind of exercise helps or hinders you for the possibility of making future decisions under similar circumstances?