The prospect of the U.S. acceding to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention comes after several decades of consideration. While both political parties and virtually all constituencies have broadly supported the Convention since at least 1994, the Convention did not receive the advice and consent of the Senate in that decade, an unprecedented event in the history of U.S. treaty practice for such a widely supported agreement. This Insight reviews both the history of the treaty in the United States, and considers both why the advice and consent of the Senate has been delayed, as well as the possible costs of that delay.
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