Last week’s report of a major shipwreck treasure recovery had me wondering about what the law is here. From a pretty quick study, it looks like this is mostly CIL, at least as far as sites outside territorial waters and the contiguous zone are concerned (that is, more than 24 miles from shore, as this one apparently is), in which … Continue reading Those 500,000 Doubloons (and What Dan Drezner Has to Do With Them)